Did you collect that or was it a nursery plant? My experience is that they are tough to collect. Cool tree!
Projects from TJ’s Backyard
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ShadyStump
Imperial Masterpiece
My experience is the opposite: they're fairly easy to collect. Get a decent chunk of root ball at all and they do just fine, even out of season.
Climate differences may play a part, though.
Don't have any right now, but I keep an eye out for nice ones.
misfit11
Omono
Nice TJ. I sometimes saw these traipsing around the mountains doing plant surveys in my early twenties. I always thought Mountain Mahogany would make a cool bonsai subject. You don't see them that often. Cool stuff!
Colorado
Masterpiece
Thanks guys! It was a nursery tree that I purchased from the Denver Botanic Gardens annual plant sale in 2019. Been slowly working it ever since.
It’s a pretty slow grower, but pretty tough and hardy. Fun little tree!
ShadyStump
Imperial Masterpiece
I was thinking of the alder leaf mountain mahogany when I spoke earlier. They're everywhere around here.This is the curl leaf, whole different story.
Sorry for the confusion.
Colorado
Masterpiece
Another little kusamono project: dwarf hosta in a @sorce container!
I made it last year but the moss didn’t really take at all, so I redid it this spring. Now it should be set up for success. Once the moss takes and starts mounding up over the next few years, I think it will look really cool with the wavy edges of the container.
This was just a little plant from my dad’s garden that his girlfriend dug up for me awhile back when I was visiting.
I made it last year but the moss didn’t really take at all, so I redid it this spring. Now it should be set up for success. Once the moss takes and starts mounding up over the next few years, I think it will look really cool with the wavy edges of the container.
This was just a little plant from my dad’s garden that his girlfriend dug up for me awhile back when I was visiting.
Colorado
Masterpiece
Really on a Kusamono Kick lately!
Here’s a small Columbine. White flower. Doesn’t look like much right now, but I think it will be pretty nice in a couple of years with more moss, denser foliage due to root constriction, and more flowers. Pot by me!
Here’s a small Columbine. White flower. Doesn’t look like much right now, but I think it will be pretty nice in a couple of years with more moss, denser foliage due to root constriction, and more flowers. Pot by me!
luvinthemountains
Chumono
I really ought to try one of these! These were my late mother's favorite flower, and it would be nice to have one in a pot.
Colorado
Masterpiece
Yes I have some in the ground in my back yard too and they are just getting ready to flower. One of my favorites!
Colorado
Masterpiece
This is my first try in a container, but I have some in my landscape and they seem pretty vigorous in my climate. They get morning sun and afternoon shade and they have spread significantly in the past 2 years! I’m planning to give the container plant quite a bit of shade.
Colorado
Masterpiece
Shohin/mame itoigawa rock planting
I mounted these juniper cuttings on this stone a year or two ago. Wired them out yesterday evening. Fun little project!
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I mounted these juniper cuttings on this stone a year or two ago. Wired them out yesterday evening. Fun little project!
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Colorado
Masterpiece
The light was really nice yesterday evening so I snapped a few photos of my tropicals.
I have just 4 tropicals. This feels like a manageable number for me, given that they spend about 7-8 months of the year inside. These were all grown in a windowsill for the past 4 winters - no artificial light.
Right now, they are very bushy. I do some light pruning over the course of the winter, mostly just to keep them small enough to fit on the windowsill. Once they acclimate to outside, I will do a heavy prune, however nighttime temps have still been in the low 50s so I’m not getting much growth yet.
Tiger Bark Ficus
Buttonwood
Escambron
Wiandi Ficus, with fig fruit!
I was under the impression that ficus needed a specific pollinator to produce figs. Not sure why I thought that. But I think it’s safe to say there are no native fig pollinators here on the Rocky Mountain Front Range at 5000+ feet elevation
I have just 4 tropicals. This feels like a manageable number for me, given that they spend about 7-8 months of the year inside. These were all grown in a windowsill for the past 4 winters - no artificial light.
Right now, they are very bushy. I do some light pruning over the course of the winter, mostly just to keep them small enough to fit on the windowsill. Once they acclimate to outside, I will do a heavy prune, however nighttime temps have still been in the low 50s so I’m not getting much growth yet.
Tiger Bark Ficus
Buttonwood
Escambron
Wiandi Ficus, with fig fruit!
I was under the impression that ficus needed a specific pollinator to produce figs. Not sure why I thought that. But I think it’s safe to say there are no native fig pollinators here on the Rocky Mountain Front Range at 5000+ feet elevation
Hartinez
Masterpiece
Wait what?!?! Had no idea wiandi would do that.The light was really nice yesterday evening so I snapped a few photos of my tropicals.
I have just 4 tropicals. This feels like a manageable number for me, given that they spend about 7-8 months of the year inside. These were all grown in a windowsill for the past 4 winters - no artificial light.
Right now, they are very bushy. I do some light pruning over the course of the winter, mostly just to keep them small enough to fit on the windowsill. Once they acclimate to outside, I will do a heavy prune, however nighttime temps have still been in the low 50s so I’m not getting much growth yet.
Tiger Bark Ficus
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Buttonwood
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Escambron
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Wiandi Ficus, with fig fruit!
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I was under the impression that ficus needed a specific pollinator to produce figs. Not sure why I thought that. But I think it’s safe to say there are no native fig pollinators here on the Rocky Mountain Front Range at 5000+ feet elevation
Colorado
Masterpiece
Me either! The branch where the fruit occurred is a bit older wood, because it’s in the back of the plant and therefore didn’t need to be pruned over the winter to keep it fitting in the windowsill. So, I think the older wood may have something to do with it, and we may be pruning off most of the potential fruit sites with our frequent bonsai pruning.
Colorado
Masterpiece
Japanese Red Pine
Grown from seedling, I guess it’s 6 or 7 years old now.
I am going to decandle it this year for the first time! I’ll probably leave the most vigorous shoot in the apex as a sacrifice.
Grown from seedling, I guess it’s 6 or 7 years old now.
I am going to decandle it this year for the first time! I’ll probably leave the most vigorous shoot in the apex as a sacrifice.
luvinthemountains
Chumono
Possibly for edible figs, but certainly not ficus benjamina. The wasps are only necessary to produce fertile seed. My ficus are constantly producing sad, impotent little figs, but I have to say I don't ever remember seeing one on my Wiandi. Yours seems very happy!
Colorado
Masterpiece
Sage
Initial wiring! First time I have wired a sage. They have really nice foliage…smells really good too!
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Initial wiring! First time I have wired a sage. They have really nice foliage…smells really good too!
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mwar15
Omono
Is that one of your pots?
