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I’m writing this post as a reference for the New Orleans club, and I’ll try to link all my neea buxifolia posts at appropriate (or just random) points throughout the body of the article. The three trees I’m working on are, these two: And this little guy. I’ve updated this one earlier in the year. But… Continue reading Development tips for neea bonsai

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I had a request from Kevin in Illinois to give an update on this neea- From this post. It, in these short months, looks nothing like my sketch yet. Unless you stand on your head, squint really hard and use your imagination. I wouldn’t do an update on this tree so early but I’ll also use… Continue reading Since we’re talking neeas….

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I get an email from a loyal reader, Matthew I picked up a ficus nerifolia….. I thought the tree had potential when I first purchased it but now after staring at it for a while I’m pretty stumped. If I sent you a picture of it could you give me some guidance? I said sure, I’m… Continue reading A reader’s willow leaf ficus

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Here’s an easy one for me, but maybe not so for you all. Exhibit A: Ficus salicaria, or willow leaf ficus to us non-Romans. Dave (you guys remember Dave, right?) won this tree on the raffle table at the last BSF convention. If you read the title, you know what I’m going to do. Let me… Continue reading Yeah, it’s another trunk chop, like butta!

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There’s a cute little devil! This little tree is a ficus salicaria (nerifolia, salicifolia,willowleafyanus) a willow leaf ficus (or narrow leaf). I like to refer to it as the ficus formerly known as…….. The view from all angles. Here is the trunk chop site The tree probably looked like this before Which is a typical 2-3… Continue reading So I chopped the trunk and let it grow, now what?

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DAY ONE: The long drive- Saturday morning 5 am, time to make the donuts….er, leave for Columbus Ohio. This next week I’ve scheduled a whirlwind bonsai teaching tour of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. They all wanted me to bring tree material so I figured, sure, why not, how hard could it be? I can make the… Continue reading Mid America Bonsai Club Tour: Day One-The Drive Up

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Day two found me in London and having some serious zone envy. Sorry, London , Ohio. One word: Larch. My host Mike had these for sale (he’s having a big bonsai yard sale on Saturday June 21st) and I was drooling. They weren’t lasciviously large larch but they were adequate. I Can’t grow them in Orlando… Continue reading Mid America Bonsai Tour: Days Two and Four- Columbus and Ft. Wayne

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I found a sweet, yet odd shaped, willow leafed ficus at my good friend Don’s house. Who, I might add, is getting quite a large collection. Short and stout. It looks to me that it was a root cutting that’s grown out. Bag it and tag it! He wouldn’t let me buy it but instead insisted… Continue reading A stout little ficus salicaria

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That’s right, it’s like the 19th century for children in my nursery. Not only do I force my own children to pull weeds in the midday Florida heat, repotting ficus after ficus, and trimming thorny bougainvilleas without gloves, I have found a way to exploit a loophole in the State of Florida Orphanage and Child Work… Continue reading Child labor and bonsai, an exposé

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Pablo does not approve.?He’s sittin’ over there passing judgement on my weeding skills. Like he can do better, he’s just a disembodied, floating wooden face with a disagreeable temperament.? I guess I need to do some weeding, forthwith.?Or maybe he just doesn’t like the material I’m working on.? Half rotten…. The leaves worm eaten and thin…..What… Continue reading  The Bougainvillea Studies