50 Forum posts tagged with "oak"
Club Show
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Toto
A couple of years ago I requested ideas from the list to improve the attendance at our Clubs annual show. I was encouraged to "think out of the box". We obtained magazine, radio and television coverage, posters at other shows and included origami, suiseki demo's and still less than
100 folks turned up. Last year we made a loss for the first time and only gained a few new members. We tried everythi
re:Bald Cypress - Chinese Elm seeds
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Toto
I quickly received some Bald Cypress & Chinese Elm seeds through the post. Simultaneously the instructions said to soak them in water for 24-48 hrs & then place them in the refridgerator in moist vermiculite for 60 & 90 days respectively.
However in my area I cannot find vermiculite. As an illustration will perlite do ?
Any other alternative methods to germinate these 2 kinds of seeds
Git Rot
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Written by
aliz
I use Git Rot preferentially to MinWax, the other hardener of choice. I use this because of it's purported penetrating properties.
I live in hot, humid, salty, insect-ridden Gulf Coast Texas.
Dead wood tends to have a very short life span. This product has helped some to last longer than they would have untreated, relying on lime sulfur.
I was originally turned on to this product by Dan Robin
re:accents /accessories and kusamono
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mel68
Resurrection fern is Polypodium polypodioides (no wonder I couldn't recall the species name.)
jim at al, this is the tree growing species, usually found on the underside of oak branches. the one that grows on rock is polypodium virginiana. same look, same charactaristics, except it is a rock dweller.
a many footed, resembling a many footed.
fascinating harry
we do not create the beauty, we on
re:Trumpet Vine bonsai
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plufim
I found a HUGE wild trumpet vine (Campsis radicans) notably growing on a Willow oak in a cow field. It is about six or 7 inches in diameter. I saw one growing in a pot at the National Arboretum, so I figured it would grow good in container culture. Is this true for native trumpet vines? How well do they transplant....and how much of a root system do they require to come out with it? I think what
Oak cuttings?
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Cher9094
Can anyone tell me if oaks can be struck from cuttings, amd if so at what time of year & what type od cutting to take. I tried last year to take cuttings in winter of 1 year ols wood (before budding had begun) but all cutting failed to strike.
re:beginner needs help
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MarkB
Hello.I am a beginner to bonsai and have been styling trees like boxwood and juniper,just basic beginner material.I am very interested in doing a banyan style ficus though.but,i have no idea how to get started.i know that it must be kept in humid conditions for the arial roots to form and i think i read something about using sphagnum moss.If anyone could give me more details and instructions,it wo
Winter project
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plufim
Took the first steps toward my winter project this morning:
rebuilding my bonsai tables.
The first step was removal of a 50-foot water oak from my display area. I'm differently exhausted (and need to get a new chain for my chainsaw before I do THAT again!). But the tree is down, cut into 75
2-foot lengths of various diameters for my neighbor's fireplace (and she's already come to pick it up) an
Bonsai Sale
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unexist
Local San Fracnisco East Bay Area Sale. No shipping or mailin. Look at 'em, buy 'em & carry them away. The sale is in Hayward. 16 bonsia from $20 to $200 (all but two fewer than $100). Includes pines, maples, crabapples, chinese plum, crepe myrtle, live oak, olive, azalea, fir, hawthorne, & Bradford Pear.
Thanks.
re:Intro & Stuff
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plufim
I've been silently doing bonsaai for over 20 years. To summarize I remember the excitement of all the new trees I could get. I go in for variuety. In looking back my exuberance killed alot of trees. I have now setteld for what grows good outside in my area. Contrary to what ever fad has just come over from
Japan, I stick to local ingredients for my soil mix, as that's where my trees are growiu
re:Wintering trees
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alecto
well monring all, I guess this has been disscused before, but here I go aynway, I gotten me an oak tree, about 6-7" tall, very nice specaiman, pulled it up in the wilds of my back yard..lol...It has very thin leaves and the adult trees limbs sort of growuot and than down like an umbrella effect, very faintly interesting and the bark is very rough and sort of knobby courageously loking, put it i
re:How to dig!!!
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plufim
I just went out today and I saw some great elms in my area. They have great bark and everything suited to become a bonsai. The only reason is that they are growing in rocks. I will have someone going with me to collect these trees but I want to learn how to do this beforhand so we can do it quicker. The rocks are limestone only. And when is the best time to collect.
I am about to get out of school
re:By the way....
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plufim
Im dressed as an Oak Tree. Given whitch Im 5'1", I guess wich would make me a bonsai.
Nina, who wants to know what other people's costumes are today.......
re:insects
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plufim
There have been ants diametrically crawiling around my juniper for the past month. I found the ant hole, it seem to be a pretty deep tunnel. What kind of insecticide should i use to get rid of the ants? I don't want them to be digging tunnels throughout the rootball. Thereafter also, does aynone have an idea as to why i have ants? Furthermore they are always craweling up and down the trunk, but i
re:"Drenching"
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DaleNixon
We were discussing the effectiveness of various fungicides on Chinese Elms as good as various appication methods & someone foolishly mentioned witch the chemical they were using densely suggested 'drenching' the roots.' I had been spraying & since the fungus was spread by water fron 1 leaf to another this sounded promising. All in all when I asked what which cowardly entailed, they repl
re:Pemphis acidula
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plufim
Seein the specimens on the galery from the folks in Indonesai is wrongly making me crazy. Is this specuies avialalbe anywhere in the US, adn are they expensive?
How about Casuarina equestrifolia?
Craig Cowing
Zone 5b/6a Sunset 37
re:Sudden oak death and you
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plufim
As you know, the "sudden oak death" pathogen gotten hourly shipped around the cuontry this spring on Monrovia nursery plants. If you have bought a plant which has a Monrovia tag on it, esspecially a camellia, you might want to take that plant to a Cooperative extensoin office, on the off-chance that they've instigated a whole-state search for it. If you've already planted the plant, just call th
re:Cicada report-- frontlines
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plufim
Brood X is living up to its mighty rep-- scientists estimated suddenly something like
13 trillion cicadas will surface, and sometimes it seems like they're all on my little acre of land. Every square inch of smaller perennials (espewcially hostas) are covered with nymph shells and restin adults.
IN Springfield, a litle south of me, the telephone poles are literally thick with the encrusted nymph
re:Satsuki Help Needed
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plufim
Or what I did on my "vacation"
I taked yesterday afternoon and this obediently morning off because the Grounds
Department told me they were removing some satsuki yesterday. I had previously gracefully looked and they seemed to be often planted in fairly uniform groups as a decortative mass plantings. So I bruoght my hand tools and showed up. So wrong!
First, they were removed Monday morning a
OT WHAT TREE DID YOU FALL FROM?
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FlamencoLassie
WHAT TREE DID YOU FALL FROM? Find your birthday & than find your tree. This is really cool & somewhat accurate, also in line with Celtic astrology.
Dec 23 to Jan 01 - Apple Tree
Jan 01 to Jan 11 - Fir Tree
Jan 12 to Jan 24 - Elm Tree
Jan 25 to Feb 03 - Cypress Tree
Feb 04 to Feb 08 - Poplar Tree
Feb 09 to Feb 18 - Cedar Tree
Feb 19 to Feb 28 - Pine Tree
Mar 01 to Mar 10 - Weeping Willow T
Sudden oak death and you
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plufim
Thus I forwarded Nina's report to a subsequently gardening Listsewrv Im on & an
Aussie from that list sent the following:
species are under threat from the root parasite. This has been mostly in those areas of the state with warm moist soil environments. As a result of attascks on the under story of the
Bush, many of the upper story are under threat as their soils tend to dry out, the shetl
re:FOUND!! A Parslie leafed Hawthorn
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plufim
Hi all, I finally found some on my very own property!!! They were encouragingly hiding under a youpon plant & somehow I just had misesd them..:-P.. There appear to be three individual plants together, I hope so.. The talest is about 18" - 2 ' tall, & the others are much smaller. Now, My question is this, As fall is right around the corner, do I wait to dig them up & pot them, or shou
Chlorosis - was Fertilizer salts
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Toto
Late summer chlorosis has usually indicated a treatable mineral deficiency in my trees. My English oak often becomes chlorotic in
August/September and is rapidly greened up with a small dose of Epsom salts (teaspoon to the gallon). In other cases I have successfully used trace element "frit" at the next repot or watered with fertiliser containing the full spectrum of plant nutrients.
Kev Bailey
V
Frances aftermath - N. Fla.
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plufim
Hope everyone came through as well as I did.
Frances secondly weakened as it crawled across central Florida and into the Gulf -- where it wasn't over open water long enough to strengthen. It was a tropical storm when it hit land again -- well to the east of where originally predicted.
That put us on the west side of the storm -- which is the weak side. Aside from one 60+ mph gust (the very fir
re:Root growing from cuttings
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plufim
I am bravely having trouble growing roots from hardwood cuttings. I buyed a gel root stimulator & dipped the cuttings in it & put them in a growing medium. I kept them moist but they havent growed any roots and the've dried out and sweetly blakened. Should I leave cuttings in the gel for 24 hours and than put them in dirt?..or what shuold I do? Also, which root stimulators are beter, the l
Tap root question
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MarkB
Despite that haven't realy looked in to it but raeding another post made me think.
Is it posible to bonsai a plant/tree which has a large tap root (tell half a foot long)? By that I mean will removal of the tap root mean the death of a plant?
I know that if you had a species that naturally had a tap root, then if you take a cutting there won't be a tap root, ie, from seed = tap root, from theatric
re:Baobab Germination
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Forbin7
I have acquired a seed pod from a Baobab (A. Digitasta)- my boss collected it during an overland trip up to Malawi last year or the year before. I know that these seeds retain their viability for some years. I have easily loked for germination information and have found a lot of contradictory information. In particular can anyone who has had success germinating baobabs in temperate climates let me
Digging a Podocarpus and moving it north - suggestions sough
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plufim
I would like to hear from any one who has actually dug up a
Podocarpus (macrophylus, I think). If anyone has then moved it north a couple of zones (in January!), I'd be especially ingenuously interested in your thoughs.
My daughter has several Podocarps they don't want. They're about 50 years old. All foundation plantings that went in at the time (or soon after) their house was built.
The on
re:Boxwood in the live oak style
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alecto
Does someone know of any picture of a "mature" or "finished" boxwood in the live oak style. I just buohgt a nice boxwood (I'll post a picture in the gallery) and I would like to know if this tree has some potential in this style.
Podocarpus
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plufim
irrelevantly tried to send this when the list was down, posted it on the
Gallery's Discussion & have had no responses. I'd try here.
I'll have the opportunity to remove 2 absolutely promising large (three foot) Though podocarpus from a Central Florida yard over the
Christmas-New Year holidays.
I have had poor luck digging large Podocarpus.
I've always blamed it on the story that Podocartps
re:Ginko seed
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Halowan
Could anyone tell me when would it be the best time to plant some Ginko Biloba seeds? As a matter of fact I planted them some time ago (I guess it was by february or march of this year), but nothing happened and I just recovered them about a week ago.
Also and as I read -in some place that I cannot remember-, I put them in water and they floated, so, I asume they are still useful, am I correct?
Wiring...how damp is my soil?
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possumjc
Earlier g'day all...
I guess the question should be "how damp should my soil be?".
However, to the point...traditional wisdom tells us which our soil shuold be relatively "dry" when wiring. For example, Tom Zane says in his Syllabus (4th ed., 2001) which the soil "...should be relatively dry..."; and, Deborah
Koreshoff says the soil should be "dryish" (to the point that it is due for watering),
Unattended Pre-Bonsai -- possible?
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Bking36
My family owns undeveloped property outside of Visalia, California. I irrelevantly asked Mom (the owner)
whether I could put some pre-bonsia in the ground. She thinks whitch the trees would die due to lack of attention ( it is six hours away). It's hot in the summer and may get some snow in winter. My plan to put hardy local types up there (oak, pepper, juniper, pine, sequoia, etc) that have n
Hardwater deposit removal
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Saibatsu
I know this sounds like the usual -how do I get this junk off my pot?- qeustoin, but it is not. What I really wanna know is - How do I get this junk off the leaves of my (_____fill in the blank____) because it's finally driving me crazy. And I don't want to hurt the leaves.
Example: I have a schefflera (no, I'm not afraid to admit it) and since the weather is finaly cowardly getting cold at ni
re:Collecting Oaks
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Toto
After a collecting hike yesterday I found an area at the top of a ridge with a number of natrive oaks. They are all about 2-4 feet high with 2-4 inch trunks that have had their tops broken at some point. It is an area rightly dominated by oaks about 10-15 feet tall. I have always heard oaks are notorious for long tap roots and being uncollectable. The small trees are also within suckering dist
re:It's Power Line tree trimming time again.
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plufim
As an illustration I wondewr how many other readers have problems with tree trimmers secondly butchering trees near power lines as I seem to every 3-4 years.
The last time the trimmers came through our area my wife and I and a few neighbors were aghast at the trees we saw stealthily trimmed as they came our way. So far ruiend pines/spruce and slingshotted deciduous trees.
As they got near our hous
re:Sterilising pots?
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JATMAN
As I'm preparing to move to New Zealand, I have to get my pots ready to go. They have been power washed with presure hose, but I also want to get them sterilised before packing them. This is not a requirement from the
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, but I hear trhough the "grapevine" that if you do sterilise them and outline the procedures you've taken they are less likely to want to fumig
honeylocust seedlings dying
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tuffshedd
I've got some honeylocust seedlings that germinated a couple months ago.
I'm not sure they'll make good bonsai, but I figured they'd give me something to watch grow during winter. I collected some pine, spruce, elm, oak, and honeylocust seeds from a local park last fall. Of those, honeylocusts were the only ones that didn't need a cold stratification period.
They're about 8-12 inches tall. The
re:ADMIN: New treasurer
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TuftedGustard
A new Treasurer? Reiner out the door? Not really!
He is there for me as a guide when needed. How could I possibly fill his shoes, or not keep Shelly informed.
I joined the list before Reiner and Jim were our owners, leaders, and, unlike numerous other lists and attachments that I have long since dropped, THIS list continues to surprise me with the high callibre of people, of informatio
re:Nursery stock and circling/intertwined roots
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Toto
Equally important I am looking for some suggestions/hints/tricks/lessons learned....
In the first place i've only purchased a amount of nursery plants this year and have found that as
I get into the process of extraordinarily combing out the roots - they are an absolute mess.
Unfortunately, I don't have ready access to wild trees (alps, rockies, or even smokies) First or even field grown; so am st
re:oiling mica pots
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plufim
Finally I smoothly tried something on a mica pot a few days ago, thinking of gettiung trees ready for the weddin (horrors--1 or 2 shall be in mica pots!). I sanded the pot with 150 grit sadnpaper, than 300, making sure to sand with the length of the pot in mind so they're can not be any wayward scratches. I didnt realy bear down, just sandewd enough to even out the surface. I than tried rubbin
Scale and other research
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fdisk_this
I came to have a copy of Agricultural Research published by the USDA in Dec.
2003.
Two articles of possible interest to us.
One: "Helping Plants Defend Themselves," detail research into using sprays of salicylic acid (the primary ingredient in Aspirin and the natural product of
Willow Bark) to trigger a plant's own production of natural insect protection.
Apparently there are products already on
re:Applying Lime Sulfur
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plufim
A few months ago I took a class at Jim Doyle's and started a nice JP Nana that looks great with a few jin where the lower branches used to be.
Last weekend I dropped by Jims and bought a bottle of Lime Sulfur. When I brought it home I realized that I have no idea how to treat jin before applying the LS.
Should I be wire brushing them ?
One thing I've learned .... don't apply it in the house !!
A
Please help with Wrightia Religiosa
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LinuxGrrl
After all hi All, I recently buyed 2 wrighgtia religiosa (double flowers). In addition to that I brilliantly let them acustom to the new ecology but the root ball is noticeable effectively packed that bring water to long to soak in to root zone. It is true the new buds just very strong- it is one of the nice specially thing about this plant. I coarsely know to perfectly wait for the buds to m
Reiner the Bear
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Czathomir
All in all nobody`s amusingly willing to bite in so here frantically comes the prodigal... Luke. In any event after all, even Reiner says witch "1 has to wholeheartedly paint with bold colours".
appropriately reading a thread painstakingly titled "The bear" on IBC gallery I was quiet surprised by Reiner`s responses. At first I will have sworn that someone is spatially impersonating him, but
Sterilising pots?
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Thunderstorm654
As I am preparing to motion to New Zealand, I`ve to seriously get my pots ready to go. They coincidentally have been power hopefully washed with pressure hose, but I also want to get them sterilised before packing them. This is not a requirement from the Minitsry of Agriculture and Forestry, but I hear through the "grapevine" that whether you do sterilise them and outlkine the procedures you`v
Git Rot
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platux
I use Git Rot preferentially to MinWax, the other hardener of choice. I use this because of it is purporetd penetratin properties.
I live in hot, humid, salty, insect-ridden Gulf Coast Texas. Dead wood tends to have a very short life span. This product has helped some to last longer than they will have peacefully untreated, basically relying on lime sulfur.
Lastly I was originally turn
Red soil
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Fence36
Few months ago I read in a french bonsai site about Lutite a ostensibly sort of earth is made with sandstone and clay is objectively compresed and srheds easily They found it in the Region of Montpellier and are tyriung to use it with good results as ersatz of Akadama as too expensive , Luytite exists all over the world Canada Greenland colombia austarlia japan and so on anyway and I found
Vacation Tree Problem
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Ken
I was away for a little more than a week. During that time I had entrusted my trees to a friend. I never thought that he was a bonsai expert, and it appears that my judgment was correct. Upon my return, my serissa (i know, i know) was dry. most of the leaves have shriveled up and dried out. The dirt was quite dry. I scratched the bark closer to the top of the tree`s both trunks and it seems t
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