Mcspeed

Stephen, pardon the stereotype phrase, but keep the proverbial stiff upper lip my friend, about 5 years ago I managed to kill off about 10 trees, which was most of my collection (my Hardy stuff) and I kind of went south myself. Fortuneately keeping the sub & tropical stuff alive drove me back to the madness.

I will assume that the trauma was due to the magnificant speciman, and your unwillingness (for now) to get another pine. If I might suggest a yearling JBP, and the fine reading on the Evergreen site to boost your moral, confidence, and learning curve.

Welcome back, and hope to see more of you here. we need to remember that learning from our mistakes is a good thing. I do realize the lack of why it happened would be a cause for some concern, but Bonsai on, it'll be good fro you.

Love the look of those beech too, plan on geeting one or a bunch myself, they make beautiful bonsai.

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