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Nybonsai12
Masterpiece
Worked this englemann. when I got it, it had a small trunk coming from the base which died within the first year with me. It sat as I was disappointed and it wasn’t in super health.
It was repotted at one point and I still hated it so I tried to sell it. Couldnt get anybody with $75 to come pick it up. I figure the pot was with at least 30-40! so today I wired it out and figure if it lives it can stay on my bench a little while longer.
It was repotted at one point and I still hated it so I tried to sell it. Couldnt get anybody with $75 to come pick it up. I figure the pot was with at least 30-40! so today I wired it out and figure if it lives it can stay on my bench a little while longer.
rustygarden
Mame
I really like the pot on the left in the first picture .
Thank you. That's my faux nanban...
PerryB
Mame
Went to an old friend's farm near Annapolis, MD, for some yamadori harvesting. We've know each other for 20+ years but this is my first time there.
In addition to 5 beech trees (Fagus sylvatica) and 2 multi-trunk hornbeam (Carpinus), he had potted a tiny bald cypress and a Buxus rotundafolia.
Then while walking in his huge yard we saw 2 yardadori: Buxus "Morris dwarf" which were planted too shallow 20 years ago and are now begging to be root-over-rock! Here's one of those; more pics tomorrow.
In addition to 5 beech trees (Fagus sylvatica) and 2 multi-trunk hornbeam (Carpinus), he had potted a tiny bald cypress and a Buxus rotundafolia.
Then while walking in his huge yard we saw 2 yardadori: Buxus "Morris dwarf" which were planted too shallow 20 years ago and are now begging to be root-over-rock! Here's one of those; more pics tomorrow.
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michaelj
Chumono
A couple of months ago, I pulled a cheap, chipped, blue pot at the tail end of a club raffle. It was ugly, old, full of hard water stains and chips along the rim and the base, but I liked the general shape of the pot, so I patched it up with some plasticine and cast a plaster mold of it. I'm now starting to pull fresh pots from the mold. This is the first one, formed, dried to leather-hard, trimmed and cleaned. Ready to be bisqued.
Cajunrider
Imperial Masterpiece
Bought a bale of sphagnum peat moss and top dressed my BCs and Mayhaw to lower the soil pH a tiny bit.
namnhi
Masterpiece
Trees are coming along nicely Uncle.
Fidur
Chumono
Today I recived my new black backdrop (wich I'm loving), and made this pic of a leptospermum scoparium (NZ tea tree) I'm slowly pruning , cleaning and wiring (it's the fourth I buy from this nurserie batch).
PerryB
Mame
Began filling up my grow bed for winter with all the free trees I got over the weekend. Some yamadori (beech and hornbeam), some yardadori (dwarf Boxwood and a tiny BC),some cultivated 5-6 year old seedlings (Princess Persimmon and crabapple).
Maybe just enough room for 2 yamadori Table Mountain pines from last March and 12 potted JBP and JRP seedlings in 4" pots.
Maybe just enough room for 2 yamadori Table Mountain pines from last March and 12 potted JBP and JRP seedlings in 4" pots.
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Weta
Shohin
My first one died after hacking the roots into a shallow pot.
I'm going to try seedlings in shallows and your post reminded me I had a packet.
broken_branch
Yamadori
Set up my humidity trays for the winter projects under the big LED grow light. The small cypresses are going to be a small forest planting and the larger to be a stand alone. My BRT gets center stage with the P. Afra to left and the newly acquired pot of P. Afra "kaleidoscope" in front. Then there's a Mimosa pudica mixed in with my partners succulents. Tomorrow I'll post my outdoor trees when I water them in the morning.
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shohin_branches
Shohin
Got my auto vent opener installed on my cheap-o greenhouse AFTER we set a record temp of 82°F in Milwaukee today. I'll need to reinforce the cross-bar somehow because it twists just enough that the cylinder hits the poly sheet and won't close all the way. I only dropped my screwdriver out of the greenhouse twice.
broken_branch
Yamadori
Watered the balcony tree's this morning, also found a bunch of mealy bugs on that new P. Afra I picked up the other day so gave that a good high pressure wash of all the branches and leaves to blast away all signs of them. I'll have to keep an eye on it for signs of any stragglers.
I tucked a lot of things in their semi-winter home today. We have a bunch of 20° nights in our forecast coming. I got to make a quick dash South so I won't be here to take care of them or feel the 20s. Have to winterize the boat haha on i-75 south.
I'll be back soon enough to feel the pain of winter.
I'll be back soon enough to feel the pain of winter.
Fidur
Chumono
Today, beauty shot for my japanese white pine.
Fidur
Chumono
Oh, and tonight I also took some random pics of my garden under artificial light.....
PowerTap
Shohin
Found out that I have an entire forest planting of volunteer alder trees in a flower pot I left sitting out.
Winner winner bonsai dinner.
Winner winner bonsai dinner.
michaelj
Chumono
Pulled this mediocre pot out of the kiln. But I'm excited about it, because I've found a cone 6 glaze that I think I'm going to love. The round slip cast pot I posted a few days ago is ready to fire, and when it comes out, I'm giving it this glaze, which I think will look great on it.
