weather. Cold weather is coming but I've had enough time to take my shade cloth down. Take my
benches down & put all my trees on the ground. I put all my tropicals in the green house so I
should be ready for winter.
Well I still have to spray for scale / mites / mold / fungus & also use a dormant spray to kill any
eggs that may over winter and hatch out in spring.
Fall & winter is the time to check your trees for branch structure. It's much easier to see any
defects with out leaves in the way . You can prune and wire deciduous trees as well as evergreens,
like junipers & pines when the sap is not running. Pine maintenance is a whole other story which I'll
cover another time but Fall is the time to pull needles on your black pine.
After this is done or when it's raining or too cold to work outside you can work inside your
green house. Pruning / styling /spraying for mold /fungus / bugs ect. ect. you get the message,
work is never done.
Don't get me wrong I love doing this as do others when you get results like these:
The following trees belong to one of my clients,some of the trees were sold to him
by me some years ago. He brought them to me to repot/prune/& put lime sulfur on the gin.
Cascade Back Pine
Variegated Juniper
Bald Cypress
Calamondin Orange
Boxwood
Boxwood
San Jose Juniper with lots of jin
Zelkova
Green Mound Juniper
Cascade Green Mound Juniper
Cascade Green Mound Juniper
Trident Maple
Cascade Green Mound Juniper
Remember when it gets cold to protect your out side Bonsai trees. Keep the roots
from freezing put them on the ground & mulch around them & keep them out of the wind.
check them for water the cold wind can dry them out just as fast as a hot summer day!
That's all for now
WAX ON.............WAX OFF
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