Aaron S.
Mame
Wanted to start some progress threads on my trees to share their progress and of course seek advice. This past winter / spring / summer I lost all of my outdoor trees and all but two of my tropicals. I was in and out of the hospital with some surgeries and my trees were not getting the care that I was told that they were receiving. it sucks but what can I do other than restart from an almost clean slate.
This spring we had a wheelchair ramp installed on our front entry. We have a small garden right there that is bordered by the house, porch and sidewalk.
It isn't the best of gardens. Before my health went bad this was a fun garden that me and my son did. Up against the house we had several colors of canas , we had a small goldfish pond with waterfall. Then I hurt my back and my son took over the yardwork so he filled in the pond and just started mowing it down. When we put in the wheelchair ramp, part of the design is to remove all of the grass and weeds, add some steps to the side (in the pic the steps will be straight from the point of view of the picture). At the bottom of the steps will be a 6X6 foot area covered with pavers and the rest will be covered with weed blocker and pea gravel. I wanted something there so it wouldn't be so barran.
As a family we decided on a large bonsai tree in the area of 4-5 feet tall. I figured a dawn redwood would be perfect because they look nice, fairly easy to grow and they grow pretty fast. I got on Amazon and ordered it from here: Dawn Redwood Now I know that there are plenty of other sources to get tres but my options are very limited. I'm permanently, my transportation is mostly limited to my recumbent trike and I have to support a family of four on disability so I take what I can get.
The tree arrived on 03 May 2024 and it was in really good packaging and really good shape. I had a cement mixing tub that I have used before with other trees. They make great training pots. I planted it in the tub and use potting soil. The very first night that I had it, it received its first trunk chop! It had to be an animal or something because it was cut/broken (I couldn't tell) about half way up the trunk with the top half barely attached. Since then I really have not done anything with it. I try to keep the pot clean and just let it grow. Here is the most recent pic of it:
Within a few weeks of its unscheduled trunk chop, one of its branches decided to be its new leader. It's a little hard to see in the pic, I can get a closer pic if it but I'm guessing from the original trunk chop it has some pretty good taper on the trunk for being so small.
I have another one on my back porch that was ordered as a bald cypress but got another dawn redwood instead. Do people generally do a progress thread for each of their trees?
I would like to train it as a formal upright but it has a bunch of growing to do and more trunk chops. Hopefully more planned trunk chops lol.
This spring we had a wheelchair ramp installed on our front entry. We have a small garden right there that is bordered by the house, porch and sidewalk.
It isn't the best of gardens. Before my health went bad this was a fun garden that me and my son did. Up against the house we had several colors of canas , we had a small goldfish pond with waterfall. Then I hurt my back and my son took over the yardwork so he filled in the pond and just started mowing it down. When we put in the wheelchair ramp, part of the design is to remove all of the grass and weeds, add some steps to the side (in the pic the steps will be straight from the point of view of the picture). At the bottom of the steps will be a 6X6 foot area covered with pavers and the rest will be covered with weed blocker and pea gravel. I wanted something there so it wouldn't be so barran.
As a family we decided on a large bonsai tree in the area of 4-5 feet tall. I figured a dawn redwood would be perfect because they look nice, fairly easy to grow and they grow pretty fast. I got on Amazon and ordered it from here: Dawn Redwood Now I know that there are plenty of other sources to get tres but my options are very limited. I'm permanently, my transportation is mostly limited to my recumbent trike and I have to support a family of four on disability so I take what I can get.
The tree arrived on 03 May 2024 and it was in really good packaging and really good shape. I had a cement mixing tub that I have used before with other trees. They make great training pots. I planted it in the tub and use potting soil. The very first night that I had it, it received its first trunk chop! It had to be an animal or something because it was cut/broken (I couldn't tell) about half way up the trunk with the top half barely attached. Since then I really have not done anything with it. I try to keep the pot clean and just let it grow. Here is the most recent pic of it:
I have another one on my back porch that was ordered as a bald cypress but got another dawn redwood instead. Do people generally do a progress thread for each of their trees?
I would like to train it as a formal upright but it has a bunch of growing to do and more trunk chops. Hopefully more planned trunk chops lol.
