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    These are so beautiful.

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    Just had a thought.... being a grower of Bonsai really DOES make you a True Woodworker

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    John
    Lovely autumn colour on that maple, I have a similar one but this year the colour is not so good.
    I also love that Azalea(?) (in the bird bath), is that in ericaceous soil or your normal bonsai mix?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Old-Biker-UK View Post
    John
    Lovely autumn colour on that maple, I have a similar one but this year the colour is not so good.
    I also love that Azalea(?) (in the bird bath), is that in ericaceous soil or your normal bonsai mix?
    Mark

    Sorry Mark, I missed your question!, Yes it's just ordinary ericacious, When I repotted it I really thought it wouldn't live as there was so little rootage!!

    I didn't remove any roots, This was all there was, I washed the compost out with the hosepipe as I thought there wasn't any roots at all to start with!!
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    It only half heartedly flowered this year!!, The wind blew it off the table a few months ago and snapped the branch from the back clean off too


    A couple more trees, The slanting Maple was in a tub a couple of years ago with hardly a branch on it, I just took the wire off it ;last week as it was biting in!!, I was going to chop the skinny top last year but decided to band it and give it plenty of feed to try and thicken it up!
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    A Bonsai mate passed away last year, He'd been in hopital from late spring and his trees weren't getting watered all through summer, There was six of us that used to meet up, We offered to water the trees but he said no, After the funeral his sister asked us to come and take any trees we wanted as she didn't know how to look after them, Many were already dead, Some had thrown branches, some were alive bau had hardly any leaves!

    Of the eight trees I brought home, Two didn't make to this year but the others picked up like crazy!!

    This is a Kiyohime Japanese Maple, It would originally have had a cown very like an umbrella, The middle part of the canopy died but it's filling out again!
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    All of the trees were very brittle due to them being so dry through the year, When I saterted wiring them I was snapping branches so easily, The bottom right branch on this Acer palmatum 'Ukon' snapped part way through near to the trunk, I used the wire to make the crack close then put a lump of cut seal on, It all came out in leaves so the cambium must have joined back ok, It should grow over in a couple more years!
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    Corkbark Elm
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    Corkbark Maple from my mates, I daren't even try to bring these branches down as they're stiff as pokers!!
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    Cascade needle Juniper
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    'Little and Large'!

    Almost broke me back bringing the big Juniper down from the car to the back garden- No one was home to help me! (As ever!!)
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    Cheers, John 👍

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    These are so beautiful. What a shame so many died.

    Your mate grew some beautiful plants.

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