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Hi all,
For the first time in a few years I am having real problems bringing my bonsai out of hibernation. The trees have moved around a lot, unfortunately, and I am worried that their current home outside my window is not providing enough light.
My trees are 2 Elms, and a Yew. They've been with me for several years since I moved from Vermont to NYC. They lived for 2 years on a friends roof that got full sun, and I never had any problems overwintering, or otherwise.
This year I over-wintered them in a friends backyard, that gets way less sun. I also know that he took them inside for a few days during an early spring snowstorm (against my orders for him to just leave them where they were). It was an honest mistake, and I'm pretty sure it was inconsequential, because these trees are just not getting enough direct light.
They were in the backyard until a few weeks ago, when I moved them outside on my window ledge, which has an E/NE exposure with tons of indirect light off of the adjacent building, but not a ton of direct sun.
The trees are suffering. The elms have not broken bud yet. One has big buds, but I am not sure if they are dead, as they are not turning green.
As for the yew, you can clearly see that most of it is dead.
My question is this: should I continue to fertilize the trees and just heavily prune them, removing all the dead stuff? Or, should I scramble to find them a new place to live, because they will surely die under these conditions. Should they go back to the shady back yard?
The confusing thing to me is that I know Yews grow well in shady conditions. I suppose this one just got used to a lot more sunlight? Out of the three trees it does seem to have the best looking foliage, with small buds visible, but the buds look kind of bad. Will they survive?
I can certainly upload many more HQ photos, I just figured I would post this and see if anyone could help!
Thanks for any input, or advice. Like I said, I've had these trees for 7 or so years with little issue, so while I'm not exactly a bonsai newbie, I am certainly not an expert.
Thanks again!
For the first time in a few years I am having real problems bringing my bonsai out of hibernation. The trees have moved around a lot, unfortunately, and I am worried that their current home outside my window is not providing enough light.
My trees are 2 Elms, and a Yew. They've been with me for several years since I moved from Vermont to NYC. They lived for 2 years on a friends roof that got full sun, and I never had any problems overwintering, or otherwise.
This year I over-wintered them in a friends backyard, that gets way less sun. I also know that he took them inside for a few days during an early spring snowstorm (against my orders for him to just leave them where they were). It was an honest mistake, and I'm pretty sure it was inconsequential, because these trees are just not getting enough direct light.
They were in the backyard until a few weeks ago, when I moved them outside on my window ledge, which has an E/NE exposure with tons of indirect light off of the adjacent building, but not a ton of direct sun.
The trees are suffering. The elms have not broken bud yet. One has big buds, but I am not sure if they are dead, as they are not turning green.
As for the yew, you can clearly see that most of it is dead.
My question is this: should I continue to fertilize the trees and just heavily prune them, removing all the dead stuff? Or, should I scramble to find them a new place to live, because they will surely die under these conditions. Should they go back to the shady back yard?
The confusing thing to me is that I know Yews grow well in shady conditions. I suppose this one just got used to a lot more sunlight? Out of the three trees it does seem to have the best looking foliage, with small buds visible, but the buds look kind of bad. Will they survive?
I can certainly upload many more HQ photos, I just figured I would post this and see if anyone could help!
Thanks for any input, or advice. Like I said, I've had these trees for 7 or so years with little issue, so while I'm not exactly a bonsai newbie, I am certainly not an expert.
Thanks again!
