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[Joe Dupre']

I gave my Eastern Red Cedar a much-needed prune. It's been a while. I recently acquired a couple of shimpaku junipers and have been reading up on pruning them. I just used the very same procedure on the ERC. The ERC is actually a juniper. It's the red-headed step child of the juniper family, but I love them. Pruned, cleaned the mildew and lime sulphured the shari.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

I gave my Eastern Red Cedar a much-needed prune. It's been a while. I recently acquired a couple of shimpaku junipers and have been reading up on pruning them. I just used the very same procedure on the ERC. The ERC is actually a juniper. It's the red-headed step child of the juniper family, but I love them. Pruned, cleaned the mildew and lime sulphured the shari.

ERC with movement and taper, wow!
Repotted, pruned and wired this nerifolia.

 

[namnhi]

Did my typical process of cleaning up the edges with an X-acto knife and covering with cutpaste. The Azalea they tried to kill last year is almost completely healed over so maybe this Japanese maple will be okay or maybe it will just be used for cuttings and air layering. Thankfully it was just a $12 tree.
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Nice repaired but the thought that they will come back would kill me. Now is a $12 tree but what about the next one. Feed them if you know what i mean.
I trimmed my CQs

 

[shohin_branches]

Nice repaired but the thought that they will come back would kill me. Now is a $12 tree but what about the next one. Feed them if you know what i mean.
I trimmed my CQs
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They only attack the plant bleachers under my maple tree. Usually those plants have hot peppers sprinkled on them but all the rain we had took care of that. They maim at least two trees a year and if I don't keep a bowl of water out come July they will dig up anything with damp roots like my carnivorous bog.

My main bonsai benches where the nice trees are bolted down are generally okay. Thankfully the crows harass the squirrels once they come into the open. All other times my cattle dog harasses the squirrels.

Time to get the rat traps back out to train them to stay away.

 

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[RJG2]

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[LeftHandLuke]

I did NOT do all of this today (by a long shot!) but I did pull the bottom part out of the mold and assemble the pieces if only for a quick photo. Lots more finishing work and final assembly ahead.

 

[snowman04]

I have some words for the squirrels in my neighborhood. None of them are good words.
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Their last attempt at bonsai is just starting to recover. Now to get it vigorous enough to survive winter.

I have been using this since spring and it works with squirrels so far...



I apply it after each rain at the trunk of the trees...

 

[TrevorLarsen]

I pruned up my plum. I dug it out of my yard last spring. The branch that has wire on it was a sacrifice that I’ll cut off it’s just a nice handle for now.

 

[Weta]

Took a moment to observe my favourite scale removal product,
The Steelblue ladybug.
Haven't seen many this year but same buzz with scale, minimum.
At first I thought they were stuck on the Web but they were walking straight over it, I suspect they were eating baby spiders.

 

[namnhi]

I cleaned up Mayhaws from @Cajunrider

Chopped this one short. About 7" tall.

 

[Cajunrider]

It took an hour for just a hose down of the mud on my truck. Hours of cleaning ahead of me. I need to make a trip with my lady and the truck must be cleaned!

 

[99 Mile Creek]

Worked on a friends' legacy winged elm. Just did some very light trimming all around and removed a branch that was pointing at the viewer. Also guy wired down a few larger branches

Wow. Looks so similar to hornbeams sometimes. This, especially, reminds me of the Japanese Hornbeam, with the vertical-striped bark (at least I think there's a Japanese hornbeam that looks similar). Very eloquent, either way.

The Alberta spruce was slip-potted today due to my furry companion dragging it across the back lawn. Luckily, he was more interested in chewing the spruce's dog tag (pictured below). It had a really strange growth at the base, and this is really the only attractive way to position it, IMO. Given the circumstances, I think it turned out well.

 

[ShadyStump]

It took an hour for just a hose down of the mud on my truck. Hours of cleaning ahead of me. I need to make a trip with my lady and the truck must be cleaned!

What'd you do this time?

 

[shohin_branches]

Wow. Looks so similar to hornbeams sometimes. This, especially, reminds me of the Japanese Hornbeam, with the vertical-striped bark (at least I think there's a Japanese hornbeam that looks similar). Very eloquent, either way.

Japanese hornbeam

 

[99 Mile Creek]

Japanese hornbeam
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And there they are! Thanks for sharing that awesome forest. Very nicely put together too.

 

[rustygarden]

I installed the Bonsai gate I made several years ago . Might keep the deer out lol . Pretty crummy background .

 

[Fidur]

Pics of some of my trees today

Coprosma kirkii


Leptospermum scoparium


Myrtus communis tarentina

 

[The Barber]

Finally got a chance to pick up the 2 trees a friend grabbed for me at John Geanangel's place in SC. Plus I grabbed a Colorado spruce collected from Colorado as well.

 

[Paradox]

This is from last night.
Took this BRT to my club meeting and did some trimming.