sorce
Nonsense Rascal
It has been 2 years.
And this is an awesome tree........
Sorce
And this is an awesome tree........
Sorce
Thank you very much for responding!
Have a nice trip along the way with this beautiful tree.
Haven you considered grafting JBP scions onto the branches?
Wow! just browsing along and i think ive just found inspiration for the stump of a tree i found in the woods behind my house. Will take some staring at for a while, but this is really great
WOW! That last picture with the 2 kids was beyond impressive! How are you ever going to get THAT monster in a pot?I got this Austrian Black pine in the spring of 2008 at a nearby nursery where the owner grows all her own stuff off site from seeds and cuttings - no grafts, and no brushing or trimming of back buds off the lower trunk! The first photo shows it in the black plastic grow bag it came in, about 12 feet tall.
The tree isn't big, the kids are extremely smallWOW! That last picture with the 2 kids was beyond impressive! How are you ever going to get THAT monster in a pot?
I really like what you have done. Opening up the trunk gives a great view of the magnificent taper. Well done!Someone was asking for an update on this tree. Here it is, for better or worse.
I really like what you have done. Opening up the trunk gives a great view of the magnificent taper. Well done!
Any update this tree?Someone was asking for an update on this tree. Here it is, for better or worse.
[OPTIONAL RANT: In loving memory of Klytus.
Some semi-radical pruning and reconfiguration of the deadwood and branches has produced an altogether different tree, and one that I'm not sure will be attractive over time, either to you or me. Some absinthe, rather than a recent penchant for highly aromatic, small batch Washington State gin martinis (a little dirty) would have probably been the road more traveled, but here we are on this road - or here I am anyway - with a 12' tree turned quasi-sumo, intruding endlessly on my awareness, like elevator-music Pachelbel's Canon.
Yet I like what I see in my juniper & aromatic botanical haze (entirely dry, of course, and shaken, not stirred, you fool). The pads are now forced to become more multi-leveled, more convincing, more promising perhaps, and they seem more-than-ready to follow the inclinations of this incarnation of the Khan, to endure whatever abuse I may visit upon them to fulfill my vision of the Western sea.
The needles reduce (though they still need trimming). There's back-budded progeny, promising eternal renewal. There's the stubborn, immovable, planted quality of the sumo, mete example - not of Tennyson's Ulysses - but of Wallace Stephen's Penelope. It will do. It will do. We will do together, tree and I, resolute. [And you thought I was drunk, mixing datura with my ayhuasca or something, needing Nicotiana rustica to modulate a rant like this - Ha! Oh ye of little faith! - Merely high on the precious time spent, likely wasted, on this hobby, like a boy playing on the sea-shore, diverting myself now and then with finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Ah, Carl - while you are not safe, I am not safe . . . .
Oh yeah, the tree. See, not really drunk at all.
Rant off]
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Probably not. @grouper52 moved to the Philippines. Before he left he sold, donated or gave away all of his trees. He has started over in the Philippines but doesn't post as much as he used to.Any update this tree?
I'm going to guess Dan Robinson. He got most of Wills trees.I wonder where it ended up