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bonsaiTALK Craftsman
Join Date: Jan-2004
Location: Issaquah
Country: USA
Posts: 53
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While digging up the Ginko I observed that its roots were very large and had broken through the burlap sack that was once around the root ball when it was planted there. The sack was almost completely disintegrated and intangled in the roots and many suckers. Once I got it home I did some severe root pruning and spent a lot of time picking out the old nursery dirt and the old planting sack. I choped the trunk off a little above the suckers and planted it in a plastic pot to recover for the rest of the year.
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"Down on the borders they are felling trees--good trees...Some of the trees they just cut down and leave to rot..... Many of those trees were my friends, creatures I had known from nut and acorn; many had voices of their own that are lost forever now. And there are wastes of stump and bramble where once there were singing groves. I have been idle. I have let things slip. It must stop!"
-Treebeard
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
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