Nova bonsai garden

[Brian Van Fleet]

Looks like a great place to work on trees, Scott!

 

[NashsMan]

Between branch development work on broadleaf hardwoods and decandling JBP and JRP, it is a busy time of year. Also. Power is being extended to the bonsai barn, I’ve decided to finish the second floor and build an addition to accommodate a small bathroom. Lights and a toilet- before you know it, I’ll be downright civilized. View attachment 602440View attachment 602441View attachment 602442

Scott, I really enjoyed and learned a lot in your presentation at our Northern Virginia Bonsai Society meeting this morning. I wanted to introduce myself and chat...but so did 20 other people. Thanks for the education!

 

[markyscott]

Scott, I really enjoyed and learned a lot in your presentation at our Northern Virginia Bonsai Society meeting this morning. I wanted to introduce myself and chat...but so did 20 other people. Thanks for the education!

Thank you - I’m so glad that you got something out of the talk. Very sorry we didn’t get an opportunity to connect. However, I’m going to make a serious effort to make it to some additional meetings in the near future. Hopefully we’ll get another chance.

S

 

[markyscott]

Looks like a great place to work on trees, Scott!

It’s wonderful - I could stay out there all day (and I do). If you’re ever in the DC area, please drop in and say hello! Today I had a number of smaller visitors that stopped by.

 

[markyscott]

Scott, I really enjoyed and learned a lot in your presentation at our Northern Virginia Bonsai Society meeting this morning. I wanted to introduce myself and chat...but so did 20 other people. Thanks for the education!

It was a great day and I feel so fortunate to have such an active local group of colleagues and collaborators! Kudos to the Northern Virginia Bonsai Society for their energy, enthusiasm, and active participation!

 

[Wood]

@markyscott, thanks so much for the excellent talk! Our members couldn't stop talking about how much they got out of it. I promise the Shiner will make it out of my fridge next time!

 

[markyscott]

@markyscott, thanks so much for the excellent talk! Our members couldn't stop talking about how much they got out of it. I promise the Shiner will make it out of my fridge next time!

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Awesome! So glad it was well received and that the members felt as though they got something out of the presentation. Please pass on my thanks to everyone for fostering such a friendly and supportive environment.

I’ll look forward to the Shiners. They are an instrumental bonsai tool - the only beer calibrated to properly measure shohin bonsai as “shorter than a shiner”. It won’t work with any other kind.

S

 

[rustygarden]

Awesome! So glad it was well received and that the members felt as though they got something out of the presentation. Please pass on my thanks to everyone for fostering such a friendly and supportive environment.

I’ll look forward to the Shiners. They are an instrumental bonsai tool - the only beer calibrated to properly measure shohin bonsai as “shorter than a shiner”. It won’t work with any other kind.

S

I got a good laugh out of that. As I sit here on Father’s Day drinking a crappy Rainer lol

 

[markyscott]

Big day in Delaplane - power has reached the bonsai barn!!

 

[markyscott]

Bathroom going in - until now, the world has been my toilet. I no longer will have that excuse, lol.

 

[vp999]

Bathroom going in - until now, the world has been my toilet. I no longer will have that excuse, lol.

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Poison Ivy aint no joke lol.

 

[Mikecheck123]

Bathroom going in - until now, the world has been my toilet. I no longer will have that excuse, lol.

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I'm actually impressed.

 

[markyscott]

A November sunrise lights up Lost Mountain.

 

[markyscott]

Five acres of invasives gone. In March we’ll replant a 3/4 mile stretch of native riparian buffer.

 

[BrianBay9]

Five acres of invasives gone. In March we’ll replant a 3/4 mile stretch of native riparian buffer.

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What invasive plants do you have problems with there?

 

[markyscott]

What invasive plants do you have problems with there?

In the woods: Autumn Olive, Oriental Bittersweet, Multiflora Rose, Chinese Privet, Tree of Heaven, Paulownia, Japanese Stiltgrass, and Japanese Honeysuckle. In the pastures: Japanese Barberry, Lespedeza, Nodding Thistle, Bull Thistle, Plumeless Thistle, Johnson Grass, Japanese Stiltgrass, Garlic Mustard, Hedge Mustard.

This area was once an Ash grove - mostly Green Ash. Those logs you see in the picture are their remains - there are two other piles even bigger. The corpses of the Ash grove that was, now a victim of another invasive, the Emerald Ash Borer. What has taken its place is a massive thicket of invasives.

Time for a reset and a little hands on management.

- S

 

[MalsRFun in TN]

In the woods: Autumn Olive, Oriental Bittersweet, Multiflora Rose, Chinese Privet, Tree of Heaven, Paulownia, Japanese Stiltgrass, and Japanese Honeysuckle. In the pastures: Japanese Barberry, Lespedeza, Nodding Thistle, Bull Thistle, Plumeless Thistle, Johnson Grass, Japanese Stiltgrass, Garlic Mustard, Hedge Mustard.

This area was once an Ash grove - mostly Green Ash. Those logs you see in the picture are their remains - there are two other piles even bigger. The corpses of the Ash grove that was, now a victim of another invasive, the Emerald Ash Borer. What has taken its place is a massive thicket of invasives.

Time for a reset and a little hands on management.

- S

I'd like to know your secret for getting rid of Johnson grass in the pasture, because I've fought it in a losing battle for 20 years with professional herbicide, burning, and annually digging it up in my vegetable garden. None of the above methods have even slowed it down. Since it is now present in so much pasture land in East Tennessee, it appears in most livestock hay and continues to spread like a tsunami. I hate the stuff!

 

[markyscott]

I'd like to know your secret for getting rid of Johnson grass in the pasture, because I've fought it in a losing battle for 20 years with professional herbicide, burning, and annually digging it up in my vegetable garden. None of the above methods have even slowed it down. Since it is now present in so much pasture land in East Tennessee, it appears in most livestock hay and continues to spread like a tsunami. I hate the stuff!

I feel your pain - I solarized several patches for a year. I think that may have nuked it if I had extended the landscape fabric well outside of the patch where it was growing. I didn’t however, and it spread by rhizome to the edge of the fabric and commenced to growing again. It may have slowed it down a bit, but it came back. The cows love it - I’ve taken to grazing those patches pretty heavy in the spring and then hitting it with roundup when it resprouts in late summer. There still seems to be plenty of it every year. It’s awful stuff.