LuZiKui
Shohin
With housing prices continuing to go up here in CA, owning a home seemed like it would never happen. When our monthly rent was increased again by $300 (for the 3rd year in a row!) my wife and I had to have some difficult conversations. We've got young kids who are starting to get good friends through school and sports and we really didn't want to move them, but the only option would be renting forever or winning the lottery. We both make decent money but you need to make about $350K to live comfortably in this area.
We've got family in and around Boston and have been out a few times over the last 5 years. We both liked the area and started to explore potentially buying something out there. Flash forward to this week and we are closing on a house about 30 minutes north of Boston. It's still a little surreal and I don't think the full weight of a cross country move has set in, but the house should officially be ours by the end of June.
The amazing part is that the house is quite a bit bigger so the kids have some room to run around AND it sits on 1.9 acres of land. About half of it is wooded with big mature trees, and the other half is pretty open with grass and a garden and gets a lot of unobstructed sunlight. Obviously my wife and kid's needs come first, buuuuttttt I'm incredibly excited to have a bit more room for some trees and won't have to take away play space from my kids for my hobby.
So in addition to packing up and moving our house, I'll also need to start thinking about what trees to take, but I'm concerned about what might not survive. I'll be going from 10a/b to 6b. Here's what I think I'll keep vs. what will either be sold or given away at my bonsai club. If any of you have more insight on trees that won't survive out there I'd love to hear so I don't transport stuff all the way across the country just to have it die.
Keep:
Cork Oak (I know this might need to spend some/all of the winter partially protected)
Olive (Same here, likely indoors/protected for the winter)
Procumbens Juniper
A few cork jades in nice pots (protected as well)
Siberian elms (Cmeg kabudashi which are blowing up)
Rosemary
Japanese black pines (might only keep 2 of the 3 since space will be tight)
Willow Leaf ficus
Shimpaku juniper starter
Get rid of:
All or most of my oak starters - I have 2 boxes (Cork and Live Oak) which I started this year for the acorn competition, as well as a box I started last year that is out of control. If someone wants to take over and finish out the acorn competition maybe we can get an exemption from the judges![Smile :) :)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png)
Privet - Cool 3 trunk privet I collected from the landscaping, not sure if I'll have space
Small boxwood - nothing spectacular, started from big box gallon can
Handful of Jades/ P afras
Bougainvilleas
Now that I look at my "keep" list I may have to remove a couple more of those.
We've got family in and around Boston and have been out a few times over the last 5 years. We both liked the area and started to explore potentially buying something out there. Flash forward to this week and we are closing on a house about 30 minutes north of Boston. It's still a little surreal and I don't think the full weight of a cross country move has set in, but the house should officially be ours by the end of June.
The amazing part is that the house is quite a bit bigger so the kids have some room to run around AND it sits on 1.9 acres of land. About half of it is wooded with big mature trees, and the other half is pretty open with grass and a garden and gets a lot of unobstructed sunlight. Obviously my wife and kid's needs come first, buuuuttttt I'm incredibly excited to have a bit more room for some trees and won't have to take away play space from my kids for my hobby.
So in addition to packing up and moving our house, I'll also need to start thinking about what trees to take, but I'm concerned about what might not survive. I'll be going from 10a/b to 6b. Here's what I think I'll keep vs. what will either be sold or given away at my bonsai club. If any of you have more insight on trees that won't survive out there I'd love to hear so I don't transport stuff all the way across the country just to have it die.
Keep:
Cork Oak (I know this might need to spend some/all of the winter partially protected)
Olive (Same here, likely indoors/protected for the winter)
Procumbens Juniper
A few cork jades in nice pots (protected as well)
Siberian elms (Cmeg kabudashi which are blowing up)
Rosemary
Japanese black pines (might only keep 2 of the 3 since space will be tight)
Willow Leaf ficus
Shimpaku juniper starter
Get rid of:
All or most of my oak starters - I have 2 boxes (Cork and Live Oak) which I started this year for the acorn competition, as well as a box I started last year that is out of control. If someone wants to take over and finish out the acorn competition maybe we can get an exemption from the judges
![Smile :) :)](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png)
Privet - Cool 3 trunk privet I collected from the landscaping, not sure if I'll have space
Small boxwood - nothing spectacular, started from big box gallon can
Handful of Jades/ P afras
Bougainvilleas
Now that I look at my "keep" list I may have to remove a couple more of those.