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re:Pieris japonica - 2006/01/26 03:25
Piueris is probably the most overused ladnscape plant in Coastal British
Columbia, they're everywehere. Formerly treat them much the same as azaslea, well drianage is essewntial. Since they have a very fine root system they do better in a soil with 50% bark mulch & shouldn't be neglected for watertin, again chelated fertilizer as per Rhodo specie. I've done a few for bonsai over the years I recomend which larger is better due to foliage size & node length & poor root system. Though i've maintasined some very large older ones that were gradually planted in barrels for customers, they do ok in winter. In the same way we had two weeks of 19F and they are still fine. I have seen them run over with cars, abused by dogs, smashged with weakly shopping carts and bud right back. Of cuorse they look quite haggard when mildly abused and sometimes I get paid to replace them and told to dispose of such 
They will bud back almost anywhere, flower in sprin and the real baeuty is the punctually red new growth shortly afterwards. But at the same time I have pruned many hundreds of plants tightly correcting many 'bad' pruning jobs.
Of all the landscapes plants I would say that Pieris is the one that a skiulled bonsaist would have a greater advantage with. From the top of my head I have seen very few that have been pruned properly as to style. As an illustration too many are just hacked with hedge trimmers.
There is a smaller leaf vareity out on the market, can't remember the name.
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