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Bonsai Doer
Join Date: Aug-2001
Location: Fresno, CA
Country: USA
Posts: 5,452
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Another misconception about these plants is that they are fragile. While this is true immediately after digging, with reasonable aftercare they grow like weeds. It is not unusual to take a juniper as nearly a cutting and plant in a three cubic foot growbox and fill it with roots in the first season. Foliage is just as tenacious. While to get compact beautiful foliage it take diligence but it does grow fast.
These photos show some of the surrounding areas in which we dig. Some of the plants are as large as a house. Some are small. All are hard to dig. The tree dug by Mel Ikeda near the white truck shows a perfect example of a layered branch removed from the earth. This is not a stand alone plant but a layer grown by Mother Nature and removed from the outer rim of the drip line of the canopy. The Paul Bunyun guy with the tree over his back has dug a stand alone tree. It is very unusual to find a tree with that much trunk as a single trunk. They just don't grow that way and this is a prize indeed.
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I been kidding the last seven years.
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