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Collected hackberry repot and revisit
Here’s the big tree I promised you in the last post. I think I’m finally getting into the swing of things again too, this is a large tree (I won’t be doing any swinging anytime soon though, if you know...
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American elm root-cutting restyle/repot
This write up wasn’t going to happen, but then I posted (on my various social media platforms) this pic: Now, you’d think that people (and you Kaya) would focus on the bloody thumb, but no, NOOOO, they...
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Dancing live oak
Here’s a sexy tree. It is a quercus virginiana, a live oak. It has a really strong leader that is suddenly taking off. Bizarre, I haven’t repotted in maybe 3 years. Something is not right (or, more...
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Chinese Elm Bonsai Reboot: I’m sorry Paul….
Here’s a real beastie to tame…. Probably should have done what I’m about to do when I first got it (I reallydid cut it back a lot then, but not just enough. You’ll see) but one is sometimes awed by...
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A unique willow leaf ficus bonsai
On the way back from my Louisiana bonsai tour last year (great times, can’t wait to get back) I made a stop in Mobile Alabama and had a visit with Joe Day (he had actually offered to buy me lunch. And...
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Clump style willow-leaf fig from a sawn off root ball
I’m in the weeds….. Literally. Let me finish up here and I’ll show you the tree. What is that? A balloon. A yellow balloon. That reminds me of a poem I wrote as a lad: A balloon, a balloon,...
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Bonsai will be the death of me
I know it’s been a while, sorry. I’ve been ill, in the hospital again and out and had to recover from all that. And the nature of my illness makes me not want to do anything. As prelude to that...
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Plastic bonsai? What?
Sometimes I just like to stir the puddin’, and I think this post will do just that. It’ll annoy a few, make a few think but hopefully entertain you all. Let us introduce you to our cast of rogues for...
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Accepting bonsai from Bohemian bonsai artists
This is not my mess, I know I’ve been incapacitated of late but it was this way when I got it from this mad Bohemian dude I know. I’ll need to clean it up a bit just to see what I’m doing and what I...
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Redesigning a Brazilian Raintree after it goes boom boom
Flashback to December, 2014. I was in the hospital, full of shit (I’m sure there were beans involved), trying to stay alive. I guess there was a mighty windstorm (or my rambunctious 6 and eight year...
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Turn that bougie upside-down
This, I believe (I’ll have another beer) is a pink pixie bouganvillea. It just might be a purple one though. It is thornless, and that is what makes me believe in the pink pixie paradigm (sounds...
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Is it really necessary to do that?
Yes, it is. Let me show you. It’s a podocarpus. It’s tall. It’s full. It’s boring. It was styled in a time when bonsai trees were taller. The vaunted 6:1 ratio that the bonsai elite quote as...
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Bonsai Noodle Soup
I warned you. Here it is. The soup post. Well….with a few junipers thrown in, but there’s definitely soup. Chicken noodle soup to be precise. First, let’s start with the tree. A juniperus...
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Winter Bonsai Blues
Looks like I have some weeding to do. Being that it’s winter, there’s not much else to do, though. I’m bored. Well…..I might can do a little….. like remove the old leaves on some deciduous trees or...
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2 live oaks, as oaky as they wanna be
A shiny nickel to the first person (in the blog’s comment section) who identifies the reference in the title. Today’s subjects are a coupla’ live oaks, one collected, one a nursery grown tree....
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Holly, times three
I ain’t never seen a bush so full that needed trimming like this one. That’s an epic bush. A biblical bush. Like out of the 70’s/early 80’s. Wowser! How’s this one? This one is sparse but still...
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Bonsai in Ohio: Evan’s trees
On my recent trip to Ohio, I had the pleasure to visit and work with both the Cincy and the Columbus clubs as well as a few private gardens. My host for the trip was Evan. I met him a several years ago...
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Willow Leaf Fig’s Wild Ride
I made a stop at a friends house after a soil program I presented to the Bonsai Society of Brevard (a PowerPoint program based on This Post. I was literally dishing the dirt on bonsai culture…hyuk...
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All Wired up with no place to go…..
Three trees, a ficus, a raintree, and a water jasmine, walk into a bar….….they each say, in three different languages, the same thing, “Ouch” Sorry. I think I’ve made that joke before. Sounds like one...
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Just a little wire…..
TAMARINDO! That’s what they call it in Latin America at least. In old world Latin, it’s tamarindus indica. The name comes from Arabic: Tamar Hindi, which is Indian date. It was changed (probably...
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