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[KikurageOtomo]

It was about time to move my Szechuan and Sansho Peppercorns from the nursery dirt into a proper medium. Their health was surprisingly good despite the fact im doing a lot of guess work, I have yet to find any solid resources that outline handling them as bonsai. (PLEASE direct me to it if you know of any)

I also decided to make some minute adjustments to the mixed forest made from their cuttings, im hoping within the next 1-2 years their root masses will fuse.

 

[Kodama]

Spring is here and finally got them out of winter hibernation!

 

[The Barber]

Ordered some trees from Evergreen Gardenworks.

2207 C. 'Chojubai Red' X4, 4 inch
2208 C. 'Chojubai White' x2, 2 3/4 inch
2209 C. 'Chojubai Salmon Sport' x4, 1 gal
2065 C. betulus x4, 1gal
2070 C. coreana x4, 1gal
7575 P. x incisa 'Okame' x1, 2 3/4inch
7650 P. subhirtella 'Autumnalis' x1, 1gal
7655 P. subhirtella x yedoensis 'Hally Jolivette' x1, 4 inch
7657 P. subhirtellan 'Pendula' x1, 2 3/4 inch
7748 P. mume 'Hokkai bungo' x1 1gal
9510 T. cordata x2, 4 inch
9510 T. cordata x2, 1gal
9975 Z. serrata x2, 1gal

For photo tax, here's a size reference of the dawn redwood trunk I posted yesterday. The other photos made it look small.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Broke down the winter storage wind blocks and potted the new nursery hydrangea.

 

[Japonicus]

Nice rainy Easter Sunday
I can find the CAR easier all plumped up.

 

[TrevorLarsen]

My first ever JBP repots. I think they turned out very well. I’m not sure if the wire will be a problem or not being buried and all?
This first one is from @Eric Schrader ay bonsaify.


Second is from house of bonsai.


Hopefully I wasn’t too hard in them.

 

[KateM]

Planted some chestnuts...

 

[Paradox]

Sifted a bucket of soil.
Repotted this JWP from an Anderson flat to a bonsai training pot. Its probably 2 years overdue for this reduction.

Cut back some branches to other branches inside that are strong enough to take over.

Ends of branches need to be wired down again

 

[19Mateo83]

Planted some chestnuts...
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I did that a few years ago, now I have 50 little chestnut trees. If the squirrels leave yours alone long enough to grow, remove what’s left of the chestnut come fall and the squirrels won’t dig them up next spring looking for the nut.

 

[Deleted member 47471]

Just photos

 

[NateDyk47]

Cleaned up a willow my wife is growing out.

 

[BonjourBonsai]

Repot!!!

 

[19Mateo83]

Bought a Beni maiko and tried to salvage a few cuttings from the Easter casualty…. A broken branch on one of my kiyohime…Kids will be kids

 

[Paradox]

Repotted my shohin JWP after dinner.
I don't think I've ever seen a tree with more mycorrhiza in the soil.
WOW.


And new shoes courtesy of @Colorado

 

[NateDyk47]

Repotted a trident maple clump I put together last spring. I realized early summer that the small pond basket it was in was too small and added the whole thing to a bigger pond basket. By the end of summer, it had grown out the bottom of the big pond basket right into my bench.




The wire I used to hold them together was almost completely swallowed. Only a couple small roots grew above the wire... hopefully leaving the wire in doesn't have a negative long term impact on the composition.



I was fairly conservative with root cutback since they're not completely fused yet. I removed some crossing roots, a few that were higher than the rest, and some large downward growing roots.

 

[Deep Sea Diver]

Mostly azalea work today, with late maple pruning tossed in.

Repotted this Kogane Nishiki. It’s a chunky one! Mossing first thing tomorrow.


Also dug up 10 azaleas, moved four to new homes. The other six will find new homes in pots or get rotated tomorrow.

After three years planted atop clay soil all have awesome set up nebari. Top hamper of all will need lots of work in the future.



In between these jobs, pruned five maples.

Cheers
DSD sends

 

[pandacular]

I put a bit of wire on this ‘Kojo no mai’ cherry after seeing the cherries up at the University of Washington. Okay, I mostly just saw the ridiculous crowd and steered clear, as I’d already been three times this season, but it’s a fun image.

I also sifted about 30 gallons of pumice, but didn’t take a second sifting pic this week.

 

[R0b]

Funny to see all of you repotting, I just reorganised the pot storage after repotting. I am really thinking I should buy some same size wood for stacking pots.

 

[ShadyStump]

Yesterday, but I worked on improving the the herb garden.

There was weed barrier underneath. I tried the past couple years to work with it - most annual herbs are shallow rooting, right? Nah, wasn't working, so I dug it all up.

So I should be good on parsley, got a tarragon planted, and seeded two types of basil, lettuce, Chard, and cilantro.

Yeah, yeah, not bonsai related, but spring has been slow in coming, except for my choke cherry. Need to do something with that.

 

[19Mateo83]

I decided to tackle this ficus last night before bed. @wavy Gaby had given me a pot several months ago. It needed another drain hole drilled and the feet leveled…nothing a diamond bit couldn’t handle. This tree was the top of a malsai I air layered off. It has taken a while to get here but it finally got a real pot.