Bama Snow

[Bonsai Nut]

Gonna be 80 here today. My peaches are already in early bloom. Oranges and grapefruits are in full flower.

My elms and sweet gums are just beginning to bud. Spring has arrived

 

[Poink88]

Gonna be 80 here today. My peaches are already in early bloom. Oranges and grapefruits are in full flower.

My elms and sweet gums are just beginning to bud. Spring has arrived

...and we all pray it start rolling northward and eastward from there (sooner than later).

Ours is still very erratic and may get some freezing temps still.

 

[coh]

Nice photos. The problem up here is that all of my trees are in storage (barn, garage) and I rarely get to see them covered in snow...so it's good to see these.

Chris

 

[Paradox]

I have a scots pine that I have left outside the past 2 winters and its neat to see them all covered with snow. I didnt leave it out this year because I am trying out a rooting technique on it and freezing solid would probably blow the experiment.

Its snowing like hell here and I am expecting a Fed-Ex delivery of a tree today, but with this weather, I suspect it will probably get delayed until tomorrow....I got to stop ordering trees right before major storms.

 

[GrimLore]

I have cleared the front drive 6 times today and it continues to snow. As I am looking at it I have shoveled one foot past the end of the drive into the street. At the street there is a 3 foot tall pile at least 3 feet onto the street so no chance of getting out either way. This is a bit nerve wrecking at best

Grimmy

 

[Paradox]

Well the box just showed up on the front porch.
Kudos to that Fed Ex driver for both getting up the street and getting to my front door.

 

[mcpesq817]

Is that the Brent shimpaku in the first post 4th picture? How was repotting it?

 

[JudyB]

Hope everyone stays safe and keeps their electric.
Trees in snow are always pretty, but the icing always scares me since I lost a major branch to ice on a tree last winter...

 

[jkd2572]

We will be in the 70's this weekend!!!!' I have been waiting for this for ever.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Is that the Brent shimpaku in the first post 4th picture? How was repotting it?

It is. I don't know what he feeds those things, but the foliage is just amazing...super plump and dense. He mentioned maybe the high UV at altitude, but here in full sun change to a softer texture over time.

Repotting it was fine, just didn't have anything quite deep enough, so it's mounded up in that ugly pot for a year or two.

 

[Nybonsai12]

It is. I don't know what he feeds those things, but the foliage is just amazing...super plump and dense. He mentioned maybe the high UV at altitude, but here in full sun change to a softer texture over time.

Repotting it was fine, just didn't have anything quite deep enough, so it's mounded up in that ugly pot for a year or two.

I thought it was that one. I'm really looking forward to seeing what you do with it, seems to hvae lots of nice bends. When he put them up on his site that one jumped out at me first. Glad it is in good hands.

I did snag two small gallon itoigawas from Brent that I will put in the ground for a while. I swear they look like hell with that winter color on them.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

I thought it was that one. I'm really looking forward to seeing what you do with it, seems to hvae lots of nice bends. When he put them up on his site that one jumped out at me first. Glad it is in good hands.

I did snag two small gallon itoigawas from Brent that I will put in the ground for a while. I swear they look like hell with that winter color on them.

Yes, the winter color on those is alarming at first, but it's pretty cool to see them change...especially back to the very bright green his variety has. The one on the right is a runner from one of his itoigawas in winter color, compared to a kishu shoot on the left, that hasn't changed. The itoigawas are very bronze in color now.

 

[Nybonsai12]

That kishu color is great, have you noticed any big differences between the two?

 

[mcpesq817]

I have an itoigawa in the ground that I got from Mas Ishii a few years ago - interestingly, it doesn't really turn that brownish color in the winter.

 

[Vance Wood]

I have an itoigawa in the ground that I got from Mas Ishii a few years ago - interestingly, it doesn't really turn that brownish color in the winter.

Interesting this bronzing syndrome. I see it from the same cultivars of Shimpaku grown from cuttings from the same parent plant, some will be green and some will bronze???/

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

That kishu color is great, have you noticed any big differences between the two?

The foliage is quite different. I've written more on the topic here and here. Itoigawa fans out and is light green in color. Kishu balls up and is deeper, but bright green.

Itoigawa reverts to juvenile foliage more quickly with moderate pruning, and changes bronze color in the winter, as a response to cold.

Kishu seems to grow faster in my climate, by about double. The kishu region is a much warmer climate than the Itoigawa region, so that may have something to do with the differences between their growth rates in my area. They don't seem to go nearly as bronze in color.

Interestingly, the color change must be the results of some type of response cold-climate junipers have to cold weather. Here, ERC and RMJ go bronze in the winter, but Hollywood and San Jose don't.

Mites go after kishu more than Itoigawa in my yard. I have several of each in the ground together, and the kishu was attacked last year, and the itoigawas were a foot away and untouched.

The photo shows them just starting to go bronze...Itoigawa in the front, Kishu in the back, and in the can at the right. They were all planted as about 4" pots in Feb '12.

 

[Poink88]

Yes, the winter color on those is alarming at first, but it's pretty cool to see them change...especially back to the very bright green his variety has. The one on the right is a runner from one of his itoigawas in winter color, compared to a kishu shoot on the left, that hasn't changed. The itoigawas are very bronze in color now.

Interesting. Most of my shimpaku (small) cutting stayed green but a few changed to purplish bronze color. They are all in same proximity in my yard, could that be a way to identify their cultivar?

 

[Poink88]

Mites go after kishu more than Itoigawa in my yard. I have several of each in the ground together, and the kishu was attacked last year, and the itoigawas were a foot away and untouched.

I've read this somewhere before and is the main reason I want Itoigawa. Sadly, they seem to be the "favorite" right now so reliable stock is scarce (from reputable suppliers) even small cutting & more so for good pre-bonsai. Not to mention the premium price. I'll wait.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

S'more from t'day:

Getting cold out there...

 

[sorce]

Thanks....I totally thought this was a thread about something scandalous and political.

So much for that fun.

Lame!

Sorce