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The only use for such small seedlings would be a forest planting (a group of 3,5, 7 or more trees in a single pot). Alternatively, you could let...
I have been trying to grow maples from seed that I collected around the neighborhood, including some acer griseum (paperbark maple). A few of the...
The branches that have not leafed-out may be dead. It's not unusual for maples, especially in the first few years after planting, to suffer some...
Thanks, Pierrot, for pointing out the interesting article. I would like to make two additional points. First, many botanical gardens are created...
I have had this experience more than once, and the maples have bounced back after I gave them up for dead. In one case, the grafted part of the...
On a visit to Home Depot in Columbus last weekend, I was surprised to see that they are carrying deodar cedars. I thought that they were only...
Any tree that grows in your area should do fine as an outdoor bonsai, given the right care. Here is a nice article on winter care for bonsai:...
Yes, that plant really should be in dormancy now, which is to say that it should be experiencing temperatures consistently below 40 degrees F....
Good point. I guess if there was a consensus that it was hopeless, I would give them away rather than watch them die slowly.
I just moved back into an apartment and am trying to decide what plants to salvage from my house. The only outdoor space is a balcony that faces...
As a bonsai novice myself - I have been dabbling for about four years - I would say that the best plants to start with are junipers, since they...
Regarding the request for photos of pruned Japanese maples, here are a couple from some public gardens. The first one is from Butchart (a little...
Here are some more pix of the Seattle garden, taken in October.
I have a small acer palmatum 'red dragon' that I planted last year. It was growing very nicely this month until a frost two nights ago. Now nearly...
It is not unusual for a cornus kousa to take a few years to bloom. Also, it blooms later in the season than the native dogwoods, so it is too soon...
Yes, indeed the variegation is mostly gone - just a touch of it remains on some of the red leaves, oddly enough. Your analysis that it is the root...
And here it is a year later. Once given up for dead, now becoming a nice little tree.
I keep it outdoors and move it into the garage (near the window so that it get some light) during the winter.
I thought of another interesting possibility - Chinese redbud. It flowers in spring and is said to grow no more than 12' tall. See, for example,...
If you go with a dogwood, you might consider a kousa (Asian) dogwood, which tends to be smaller than the ordinary flowering dogwood and has fewer...
