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27-Apr-2004
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bonsaiTALK Craftsman
Join Date: Jun-2002
Location: Melbourne
Country: Australia
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There seems to be good and bad species in every genus, for example:
Acer (Maple) Good: palmatum (Japanese Maple), buergerianum (Trident Maple), campestre (Field Maple), ginnala (Amur Maple), japonicum (Full Moon Maple) Not so good: negundo (Box Elder) saccharum (Sugar Maple), saccharinum (Silver Maple) Juniperus (Juniper) Good: procumbens (Japanese Green Mound Juniper), chinensis 'Sargentii' (Sargent Juniper), x media 'Shimpaku' (Shimpaku Juniper) squamata 'Meyerii' (Meyer's Juniper) Not so good: chinensis 'Pfitzeriana' (Pfitzer Juniper), conferta (Shore Juniper) You get the idea. Unfortunately most of us discover this the hard way, I know I did. Jase p.s. those with Serissa problems, it's probably your climate. |
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27-Apr-2004
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Intermediate
Join Date: Jun-2002
Location: Hudson, FL
Country: USA
Posts: 487
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RE: Junipers..... Add blue rug to the list of "not good for bonsai"
also, anything varigated. But San Jose' junipers are wonderful. They are just not easy to find anymore, unless you run into someone who grows for the bonsai trade. 20 years ago, they were a popular landscaping plant here. You could buy them at any nursery. I have no idea why they fell from favor. |
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27-Apr-2004
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bonsaiTALK Craftsman
Join Date: Jun-2002
Location: Melbourne
Country: Australia
Posts: 89
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We dont get San Jose Junipers down here at all which is a pity. It is sometimes difficult to get good examples of Trident Maple, Zelkova and Hawthorn because at the moment they also tend to be overlooked as choices in the landscape.
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29-Apr-2004
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bonsaiTALK Expert
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Throw in serissa and fukien and that completes my list. I will try anything but once it seems to be disease prone or attracts insects, out it goes. It is all trial by error. Different trees work better in different zones which will prove true for me once I move back to Mass.
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29-Apr-2004
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Intermediate
Join Date: Jun-2002
Location: Hudson, FL
Country: USA
Posts: 487
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Amen! I visit my folks in North Carolina and also visit the nurseries there. They have some wonderful looking pines that are just begging to be bonsai but I have learned the hard way not to bring things home to Florida, from up there. They hate it here and always die. I did recently locate a native plant nursery nearby. We have several varieties of native scrub wild plums in Fl. They bloom in the spring and are just gorgeous, but very difficult to collect from the wild. They grow them and sell them at the native plant nursery. Also Fl. Crab apples. I didn't know we had wild crab apples here! So I bought some and they are "in Progress" now. We will see how they do as bonsai. When the owner of the nursery found out why I wanted them, I thought for second that she wouldn't sell them to me. She thought it was "VERY UN NATURAL!" I hope to take one of them back to show her someday.
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