Javaman4373
Shohin
My first bonsai was a white cedar collected on my wife's family property on the rocky shore of Lake Champlain. I eventually lost that tree when my lab people let it dry out while I was on vacation. When we moved to this farm in 1996, in the first few years we planted a lot of trees for conservation. Among them were about 40 small white cedars. Over the following years some of them grew tall and have trunk diameters in the 4 to 6 inch range. Some were killed by the deer and some were browsed heavily by the deer, but lived. These only survived because they had some foliage that was hidden by snow. I found one of these now growing in deep shade and at risk of being killed by deer eventually. So I collected it today and put it in a pot. Its main trunk is dead. It has a few branches on the left side fed by a live vein from a root and one branch on the right side fed by a different vein and root. Between the two seams there is an area of soft pulpy wood that I cleaned out. This little but fairly old tree may have potential as a bonsai, so I plan to nurse it until next growing season and see if it can live. I have it where it will be shielded from wind and get only partial sun during the day. If it lives, it eventully will have to be potted higher to show the trunk and the nebari, maybe on a rock.
