The Tree Thread

[Adair M]

Do you oil the trunk as well Adair, or just use the sandpaper?

Here's a little Acer palmatum, which I've posted elsewhere before but not here.

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I will eventually oil it with camelia oil. I haven't yet. I haven't even had time to sandpaper it! I did wet it with water for the photo.

Did someone say they wanted to see a naked Zelda?


Oh, wait... That's a leafless Zelkova.

My bad.

 

[cmeg1]

Nice and clean set up cmeg1. Would love to see that zelkova leafless. Coming along very nicely!

Djtommy, I like your new clump! It looks like you may want to get it to be a bit stronger and vigorous?


Here is a Japanese beautyberry (Callicarpa japonica) in flower.

Thanks Mach!
The zelkova is wired horribly.
Going to remove and wire everything this Autumn.There will be a nice tree there.
Here is what it looked like in Spring(thumbnails at the bottom).It did not get all the wire it should have.And did I mention the horrible wiring?

And for this post,a tree..... a Zelkova air-layer.

 

[Don Blackmond]

Can't remember if I posted this old photo of Bonsilla

 

[fredtruck]

Lately, I've been working with my cork bark Chinese elm.

 

[JudyB]

Japanese beauty berry @MACH5 that is very cool. Thought you were getting out of shohin

anyways, pop pop pop!

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Looking good Judy! Haven't posted up this one in a few pages; JBP originally styled by Peter Warren about 5 years ago. It will get new wire and some refinement this winter, maybe potted lower in the spring, and hopefully candle-cut next summer to start shortening the needles. Bark and trunk wiggle really make this tree for me.

 

[Adair M]

Looking good Judy! Haven't posted up this one in a few pages; JBP originally styled by Peter Warren about 5 years ago. It will get new wire and some refinement this winter, maybe potted lower in the spring, and hopefully candle-cut next summer to start shortening the needles. Bark and trunk wiggle really make this tree for me.
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Just curious, why no decandling this year?



A thinned shohin azalea.

 

[Adair M]

Here's Zelda with her clothes back on!



Almost time for another cut back! Maybe in a day or two.

Most of the shoots have 4 new leaves. Some have 5. When they get to 5 and 6, I'll cut back to 2.

And I think I'll still have time for one more defoliation before the National's.

 

[MACH5]

Japanese beauty berry @MACH5 that is very cool. Thought you were getting out of shohin

anyways, pop pop pop!
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Well not completely... I am keeping just a few. SNAP, CRACKLE POP goes the trident!


Cooling off a Japanese maple on a very hot sunny afternoon.

 

[JohnnyFive]

Can't remember if I posted this old photo of BonsillaView attachment 109207

Wow! do you need that front end loader to move that tree! I couldn't imagine how expensive a proper pot would be for that thing. I literally can't look away from that tree.

 

[Adair M]

Can't remember if I posted this old photo of BonsillaView attachment 109207

And I thought my Olive was big!

 

[JudyB]

And I thought my Olive was big!

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Don't you worry Adair, your olive is big enough where it counts....

 

[Giga]

Massive naked ficus I wish I still had

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Just curious, why no decandling this year?

That tree, no ready yet. This tree, ready now.

 

[Adair M]

That tree, no ready yet. This tree, ready now.
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Ok.

I have some JBP that get a partial decandle. Some branches I'm growing, some I'm ramifying.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Ok.

I have some JBP that get a partial decandle. Some branches I'm growing, some I'm ramifying.

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That's how this one will be handled. Just need some time to get to it. Maybe this weekend.

 

[BobbyLane]

Hi folks, I've not started a thread on this new project yet, but will do later in the season. Its a Silver Birch, Betula Pendula, styled to look like a young tree in a sort of weeping broom image..
IMG_1481 by Bobby Lane, on Flickr

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Decandled, completely unwired, lightly pruned, needle-pulled. A little disheveled...

...but a well-deserved break before pruning and wiring this winter.

 

[Vance Wood]

Looks good, well ramified.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Looks good, well ramified.

It's getting there. Don't forget your photo...