The Tree Thread

[monza]

Worked a little to tighten the roots to the rock on this trident:

Thanks for all the tree pics!

On the trident on the rock are you splitting that root into two by inserting those three pegs? Or just making a indent with the pegs for character? Or are both my guesses wrong?

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

On the trident on the rock are you splitting that root into two by inserting those three pegs? Or just making a indent with the pegs for character? Or are both my guesses wrong?

It's 2 roots and I'm just trying to keep them separated. Don't forget your photo!

 

[monza]

My favourite Yamadori is on it's last legs. Normally after winter storage it comes out vibrant green raring to go for some reason this winter it was not happy, I'm bummed. Sorry bad pic a beast of a tree and grow box to move around.



It looks much worse then this pic currently, its done I'm taking it out of the grow box as a last ditch effort to see if there is a problem in there that I may be able to change. I suspect I over watered in winter. Had very cold temps followed by long warm above freezing spells, and I watered more then normal on those long warm spells. Other trees did fine however.

 

[monza]

Not really a tree pic but after my last depressing post I thought I'd show a recent place I went collecting to brighten things up. Top of a mountain lots of bizarre trees up here.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Nice tri Sly...and pondy Dan...too bad about the wind, hope it doesn't skip a beat.

Here's another club tree I brought home in late fall '10; some variety of corkbark black pine. If it's grafted, I don't see where; the base is pretty good from this front.
Repotted in '11 and '13, pruned back in '12.
The images don't show just how much healthier it has become, but it's gained a good head of steam, and can be worked on this winter.

A shot from 3/11, and 8/13...3 growing seasons:

 

[Dirty Nails]

First season of air layering, all successful so far. Here are a few Crape Myrtles and a Trident maple.

 

[Dirty Nails]

Here are a couple small shimpakus I am torturing.

 

[Dav4]

Here's a tiny trident topiary...Mostly I hedge prune it.
What are you all working on?
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Just did another approach graft yesterday on this Parsons Juniper.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Good Stuff Dave. All 4 of my RMJ are still alive that I collected this spring, and my big one (Piggy) is a candidate for grafting some Itoigawa onto and reducing it from 5' tall down to about 18". Here is the trunk. Hard to see, but I can see keeping only the 3rd branch up on the right trunk...going right, then up and out of the shot toward the 2:00 position, and the rest is carved.

 

[Nybonsai12]

Not much, but here is a row of dawn redwoods that I planted two seasons ago. Probably going to have to move them next year due to size. They were so tiny initially! Hoping for them to be part of a forest one day.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

My Ben Oki azalea, repotted in March for the first time since 08, and all flowers removed.

 

[Dav4]

Good Stuff Dave. All 4 of my RMJ are still alive that I collected this spring, and my big one (Piggy) is a candidate for grafting some Itoigawa onto and reducing it from 5' tall down to about 18". Here is the trunk. Hard to see, but I can see keeping only the 3rd branch up on the right trunk...going right, then up and out of the shot toward the 2:00 position, and the rest is carved.

Lots of options with that one...I could see a multiple trunked style with it, as well.

Here's a little twisted up shimpaku I did the initial work on maybe 6 weeks ago (when pic was taken). It's got wire on the deadwood right now, and will hopefully get wired out in October.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Should be fun...looks like a roller coaster!
Check out the base forming on this cutting-grown Hachi Gen...

 

[tmmason10]

Should be fun...looks like a roller coaster!
Check out the base forming on this cutting-grown Hachi Gen...

Brian, is that the one we all want chopped? Maybe it's better you don't.

Updated pic of ficus green island.

 

[Dirty Nails]

Should be fun...looks like a roller coaster!
Check out the base forming on this cutting-grown Hachi Gen...

Love that! Looks like it about to run right across the bench.

 

[Dirty Nails]

My Ben Oki azalea, repotted in March for the first time since 08, and all flowers removed.

5 years without repotting? Is that typical of azaleas?

 

[Dav4]

Love that! Looks like it about to run right across the bench.

5 years without repotting? Is that typical of azaleas?

You owe us two pictures

 

[Dirty Nails]

Damn! Ok Here you go.

First is a bald cypress. I saw an add in early June (on a hot weekend) on craigslist free for a bald cypress this guy wanted gone the next day. I got it and brought it home and put in a nursury pot with turface and sat it in a container of water. Within 10 days it dropped all foliage. I kept it in the water and about 2 weeks ago it started pushing this new growth from the bottom. I don't know if the main trunk will recover but it has new trunks coming from the base. If the main trunk does not recover next spring I will carve the hell out of it like it was struck by lightning and develop some of the bottom trunks to grown up next to it, which I think would be pretty cool.

Next is a JBP air layer I did. I just removed it and hope it lives.

Since I owed you 2 pics I need something for this post so here are some butterfly pics from my garden.

 

[Poink88]

You owe us two pictures

Damn! Ok Here you go.

LOL. Good sport!

Here is a pic I posted earlier on it's own thread. This is a newly collected boxwood and could potentially be my favorite of the last batch of 6 I recently collected.

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[Dav4]

LOL. Good sport!

Here is a pic I posted earlier on it's own thread. This is a newly collected boxwood and could potentially be my favorite of the last batch of 6 I recently collected.

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I think it should have been chopped a bit lower.