Originally posted on Michael Hagedorn:
Spiral scars seem to happen overnight. You go to bed with happy thoughts only to arise with badly bitten in wire. Wire scars on some plants can last well into a bonsai’s maturity. How might we correct that?? Though slight, wire marks like this bug me. This Chojubai was wired when it was a skinny cutting. The wire bit in,… Continue reading A Trick for Correcting a Wire-Scarred Branch-

Originally posted on Michael Hagedorn:
That title needs explaining. When we collect a tree from the wild, the needles or leaves that come out that first year might be tiny. We begin to tap a beer keg in celebration of having unwittingly collected the only half-sized foliage plant on the mountain, clearly a dwarf of some sort, maybe making us millions in a future patent.… Continue reading The Three Foliage Sizes of Collected Trees