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Hi Al, glad you like them. I think deadwood is the best feature of ohi'a. I need to get to the desert and do a deadwood feature.

There isn't much in the nurseries here suitable for bonsai and most of it won't grow up here anyway, 4Kft. Not tropical.
I can grow plants/trees here that can't grow anywhere else on the island or the state, maples, mainland fruit trees, cymbidium orchids, ginko. Azalea and camellia love the acid rain. But I can't grow ficus and I've lost a lot of heat loving plants to disease. So as difficult as they are, ohi'a loves the rain.

28-Jun-2006	#7
Bruce Winter veteran Join Date: Apr-2004 Location: Volcano Country: Hawaii Posts: 442	Hi Al, glad you like them. I think deadwood is the best feature of ohi'a. I need to get to the desert and do a deadwood feature. There isn't much in the nurseries here suitable for bonsai and most of it won't grow up here anyway, 4Kft. Not tropical. I can grow plants/trees here that can't grow anywhere else on the island or the state, maples, mainland fruit trees, cymbidium orchids, ginko. Azalea and camellia love the acid rain. But I can't grow ficus and I've lost a lot of heat loving plants to disease. So as difficult as they are, ohi'a loves the rain.