If Your Pines Turn a Weird Grey…

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…they might not be dead, they might have spider mites. Mites are sneaky little arachnids that can transform our trees while we’re busy assuming all is well, to turn around one day and think, huh, wasn’t that a darker green last week? Pine showing spider mite damage from the year before, on the older needles with the yellow stippling The… Continue reading If Your Pines Turn a Weird Grey…

Be a Bonsai Sleuth: What is Needle Cast and What is Overwatering for Pines?

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Many of the problems we see on our bonsai look very much the same. Needle Cast, a fungus, and overwatering, a care mistake, often look a lot alike. Here are two photos that might help determine if you have one or the other of them in your yard: This pine, a Ponderosa, has been overwatered. Notice the nearly equal lengths… Continue reading Be a Bonsai Sleuth: What is Needle Cast and What is Overwatering for Pines?