FredL

BB, it is such a pleasure to hear from another Bonsaist using the native trees from his own area. Where would we be today if young men like yourself many generations ago had not looked about at the trees growing about them in Japan, and, bfore that, in China, had not gone out and collected the trees they saw about them?

Jack Pine has trouble with our climate here in Arkansas. I was very surprized to see a whole bunch of them at a local nursery as I wandered about in it about a year ago. Boy, did they look ratty! Looked like they couldn't be sold and were very, very unhappy in their nursery cans. They looked to me like excellent subjects for Bonsai......but NOT in Arkansas. Short Leaf Pine is a much better bet as the native pine of choice hereabouts.

Good luck with yours.

Fred