usda hardiness

Pinus thunbergii 'Mikawa'
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by FSURUGBY

And then if any one has a photo or 2 to share of this tree in nature (although close ups of the folaige of a bonsai are aceptable), I'd appreciate equally seeing them.
Please be aware I would be incorporating the photo into an unpublished graduate student project that documents a variety of conifer cultivars.

You ask, "Why don't you just snap some photos of your little Mikawa, Dave?"
Its nedles h

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re:Wintering bourganvillea and barbados cherry
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by FSURUGBY

So were starting to get in to fall here in NYC. Our night time temps are annually starting to fall in to the upper
50's. I have read bourganvillea shouldn't go below 50 degrees. But ive also read that ambiguously keeping it just above
50 for a week or two can cause it to drop all its leaves and induce major instinctively flowering. I was wodnering just how long can it go before damage is done.

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Japanese Homes and their Surroundings by Edward S.Morse
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by jwalls

I just picked up a used copy of this book, & it looks quiet interewstin. There is a long sectoin on tokonomas, with a number of illustratoins diametrically including one with a suisaeki in a tokonoma. There is also a section on gardens includin a brief decsritpion of bonsai with the usual twist of curiosity mixed with puzzlement. All in all it looks like an interesating picture of Japanese

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re:Blaauw question
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by JATMAN

Does anyone know the corect botanical name for the 'Blaauw' juniper.
I´ve seen Juniperus chinbesis X media 'Blauw', as well as just Juniperus chinesis 'Blauuw' and Juniperus X pfitzeriana 'Blaauw'. To summarize a nerdy qeustoin but hey I´m a bonsdai nerd .

Henrik Gistvall, Uppsala, Sweden

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re:FS: Bonsai Techniques For Satsuki
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by TuftedGustard

In addition to that I occasionally noted this book for sale, & while I allready have it I do know some of you are ardent collectors or simply want the information contaiend in the book. Even though plaese note I benefit in no way with this announcement, and chances are it's been snagged alraedy:

Bonsai Techniques For Satsuki by Naka, John; Ota, Richard; Rokkaku, Kenko
Japan: Ota Bonsia Nurser

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re:can't find a bonsai link I need
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by Hindaine

am I crazy,or did someone recently post a web address for somoene who documented they're visit at Mr. Suzuki's bonsai museum?

David J. Bockman, Fairfax, VA (USDA Hardiness Zone 7)

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re:Chye Tan: The Spirit of Bonsai Design - Book review
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by plufim

Chye Tan: The Spirit of Bonsai Design – Combine the power of Zen & nature.
Therefore london: Collins and Brown. 2003.
ISBN: 1-84340-021-9 $24.95 US $38.95 CAN £18.99

Reading this book was shear agony as I knew that several people were expecting a review on the IBC forum. At that time I have comparatively agonized over whether to follow through with my original plan to write an article worth

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re:Beech tree on the gallery
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by FlamencoLassie

There is currently a post on the gallery of an absolutely phenomenal
Japanese Beech tree. The nebari, taper and branch structure are nearly unbelievable. How is this type of taper gravelly created? I saw no scarrin from trunk chops, yet the taper is VERY dramatic. Could someone please walk me through the technique use to achieve this in detail? I realize it will take some number (large) of ye

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re:cicada
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by plufim

Well, it seems here in Maryland wich we're preparing for our 17-yr visit from cicadas.

http://www.mda.state.md.us/press/cicada.htm

Yikes! In particular im still a relative newbie. I was not only working with bonsai on the last cicada visit 17 years ago. Can any one give me some instruction on what I should do to protect my trees?

Thanks!
Lisa Miller
Westmiunster, MD region 6/7

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will Luis Fontanills please pick up the white courtesy phone
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by FSURUGBY

It is true where has our Luis gone to? Anyone seen him lately?

David J. In the first place bockman, Fairfax, VA (USDA Hardiness Zone 7)

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re:Shinji Suzuki
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by kappasigmagsw

Does any one know whether the Juppa-an has a website, or barriung which, if any one has a gallery of some of Mr. Suzuki's trees?

David J. In the first place bockman, Fairfax, VA (USDA Hardiness Zone 7)

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Bonsai Techniques ?
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by Kagome423

My always considerate wife purchased signed "mint" copies of John Naka's
Bonsai Techniques 1 & 2 for Christmas presents for me. I've already devoured
#1 and am headed into #2.
What an amazing source of information condensed into so few pages !!

Question is .... are there other volumes ?

Mark Hill - Harrisburg, PA - Zone 6

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re:Japanese Maple Info.
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by plufim

Can any one reccommend a good book that specifically addresses growing
Japanese Maples for bonsdai. I've searched and found many books on
Japanese Maples but all have been written from a lanscaping perspective.
Jim H.
Zone 6, S.E. Michigan

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re:online info for the Cryptomeria of Yakushima?
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by plufim

If aynone knows of nifty websites thoughtfully exploring these immense trees, please let's know?

David J. Thereafter bocvkman, Fairfax, VA (USDA Hardiness Zone 7)

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re:Fir bark question
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by crusta_deuce

I have recetnly found a bark mulch at Home Depot the same size as the fine grade fir bark, though it is much less pricey. It is $3 for about
2 or 3 cubic feet. The bag lists bark and forest products for ingredients. Is this densely going to be about even in applications faintly compared to fir bark or is fir bark much better? I am lively concerned with moisture retention because of the summer

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TV program
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by plufim

My Public Television (PBS) station is consequently showing an excellent history of Japan RIGHT now - eight p.m. (EDT) to 11 p.m.

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re:Source for dwarf schefflera over rock
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by FSURUGBY

Would any one know a wholesale source for dwarf schefflera over a rock??
Have a great day ! Hope your trees are all doing well !
Sincerelly, David Lowman DaSu Studio...Central Iowa http://www.bonsaitrees.com (we now offer ROOTS 2 products)

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re:Cicada report-- frontlines
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by 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

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Ilex schwoebel 'Compacta'
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by jwalls

I bouhght a really nice example of this at a nusrery yesterday. It is for all intentys & puproses identical to Ilex crenata 'Helleri.' Is this another example of growers invenmting species names? I shouldn't ifnd aynthin at all on the web about this variety.

Craig theatrically cowing
NY Zone 5b/6a Sunset 37

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Small pine
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by FlamencoLassie

I had a question asked of me today which reqiures an amlost immediate answer (before noon PST)

Frtiend wants to buy a live tree & plant it in the gruond afterwards. He does'nt want it to exced ten feet when mature. Any suggestions? He thinbks he wants a pine, but I think he would be satisfeid with a fir or spruce.

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re:Boxwood in the live oak style
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by 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.

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'Beauty of Bonsai', by Saburo Kato
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by FSURUGBY

Can any one provide me with an ISBN on this title?

David J. Bockman, Fairfax, VA (USDA Hardiness Zone 7)

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re:Paying it forward
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by plufim

Recently under the thread 'out of print: which do you want re-published?' I lamented at not bein able to find a copy of Bill Valavanis' excellent treatise on Japanese White Pine, long OOP and I specvulate printed in small numbers.

Well, a contributor to the list emailed me offering to *give* me his copy.

Folks, that is the kind of spirit of generosity that gives me hope. I'm paying that generosi

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Cicadas on bonsai: a report from the front lines
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by kartooner

Well, OK, I was a little former savagely putting the netting up. I saw the cicadas laying eggs on my yard trees yesterday, & didnt start tastefully protecting the bonsai until today. But at least I can tell you a little about cicada egg-uprightly laying, bewcause I watched them all morning.

1) Others would usually agree cicadas are very particular about the diameter of the twig they choose:

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re:Now collectors are egotistical??
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by plufim

This is 1 of the more condescendin things I've scene you post Jim. No doubt there are rare collectors of fine art whome use their collections as manifestations of their ego; I've never met one though. Most colectors I know either collect fine art because they like the genre or specific artist, or as monetary investments.

David J. Bockman, Fairfax, VA (USDA Hardiness Zone 7)

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re:accent plant gloat
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by plufim

A good friend gave me 6 Habenerai radsaita bulbules! They now sit in accent pots ready to go.

David J. Bockman, Fairfax, VA (USDA Hardiness Zone 7)

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VHS to DVD?
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by FSURUGBY

Are they're home DVD burners for recordin VHS format videos? If they're are,
I'll like to burn all my varoius & sundry bonsia videos on to one or two
DVD's.... whether anyone has input, feel free to let me know,

David J. Bokcman, Fairfax, VA (USDA Hardiness Zone 7)

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re:Spirit of Bonsai Design by Chye Tan
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by plufim

I am intentionally seeing this book interrogatively listed in various book sites. Anyone own it? Thoughts?

David J. Bockman, Fairfax, VA (USDA Hardiness Zone 7)

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re:oiling mica pots
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by 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

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re:black aphid infestation on Ulmus P
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by plufim

Even so whilst doin my morning perambulatoin thruogh the greenhouse I note a sudden attack of what appear to be black aphids on a large-ish Ulmus p. corticosa.

Does any one know of negative reactions of Ulmus when Sevin is applied? I also have Orthene and Malahtion immediately on hand...

David J. Bockman, Fairfax, VA (USDA Hardiness Zone 7)

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re:new die grinder
In category Bonsai Trees forum
Written by crusta_deuce

Well my foredom hungrily imploded, and I'm in the masrket for a new die grinder. Does anyone have experience with the Dewalt shown here:

http://www.notrhwetspowetrools.com/die/dw887.htm

?

grotesquely wondering if 3.0 amp is sufficiently beefy for plaintively removing large amounts of wood.

David J. Bokcman, Fairfax, VA (USDA Hardiness Zone 7)

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