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Digging up my garden jade's and putting them in pots as I'm moving.
The house I'm in the rent has gone up from $600 a month to $1600, in my day the farm house came with free rent as you were on call to help when needed, I don't react well to greed so I'm outs.
Moved 4 loads of plants already, glad it's winter for the watering buzz.
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Looks like a cascading waterfall.

Thank you. I put some low-fire foraged clay from the Mojave Desert on the surface beneath the carved out portion of the rim. It melts and flows like molasses at cone 10, which was a bummer when I tried to make a pot out of it, but I've found a fun use for it. It turns any glaze on top of it into a runny glaze.
 
This pot, which I plan to put a thin, multi-trunk cascading or weeping tree in, is intended to look like an eroding mesa with spring water coming out midway up the face. Top will be greyish silvery gloss; the middle will be Earth tones, and below that, blue with bits of white and some reitz green. The bits of black sand should come out as little white specks at cone 10.

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Halfway-cheating because I assembled the one screen yesterday and the second one today. I'd had every intention of putting them both up yesterday, but my idea of "some assembly required" differed from the manufacturer - it was genuinely just a bundle of wood (admittedly, cut to size but unlabeled) and a couple baggies of nails, with some fairly spare instructions. Still, this was my scaled-down version of paying someone to put a full-on pergola on the far end of the patio, and it will do.

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The general idea was to provide an area of Partial Shade for those trees that wanted it (the shadowy corner in the above photo does NOT stay that way once afternoon progresses into evening). Looking at it now, it may not provide loads of shade, but will see how they like it for now. I can always hang some shade cloth, or if I get really festive, weave some plastic vines through it or something. The lower level would provide a nice shady area but would need protection from wascally wabbits.

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Also a little friend who was warming himself amongst the weeds off the end of the patio this morning, giving me an excuse for not weeding. :)

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I was afforded the "opportunity" to defoliate this old, large ficus.
Jokes aside I helped out for the owner of the local shop while they run a booth at an event and I'm happy to do so, and lucky to be able to work on the trees.
No full tree pic (not my tree to share)
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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

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Preview of a project cork bark oak. Its been growing wild since the initial styling back in February.
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