WHITEPINE

Hi Tim and everyone,


No, I'm very sorry to say that my pine died. What made it very hard to take, was that it looked as if the tree was recovering, because new growth was sprouting in the damaged areas. However, one day I noticed that the new growth was turning yellow. Then the the yellow gradually travelled to all parts of the pine, then the inevitable happended

To be frank, you haven't heard from me until now because the loss hit me very hard. In fact, I only disposed of the tree 2 weeks ago, even though its been dead for months.

I thought about giving bonsai up all together, but I think its in my blood. Since I still have no idea why the pine died, I'm going to avoid them for the time being, but I hope to get another one some time in the future. However, it must be said, that I was very tempted by a Black Pine that I recently spotted on ebay, but thankfully I managed to resist the temptation.

As for the Beech, you don't see them very oftern and the white bark looks really attractive. From what I can gather, there isn't any particular problems with them, although they can't tolerate temperatures of less than -5 C. I'm just hoping that everything turns out well.

Best wishes
Stephen