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Posted 4 years 6 months ago #61137
Not an overview of all my trees. But I did take a picture for someone recently of a section:
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And an elm I am working on, just repotted it last week and did some work trying to get roots on the trunk. This is outside all the time:
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Posted 4 years 6 months ago #61142
Some of those look pretty old. I really like the one on the far left of the raised wooden platform, which species is that one?

The Elm looks more than happy for being outside.

Thanks for sharing. :)
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Posted 4 years 6 months ago #61146
Thx.

That would be an ittoigawa juniper
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Posted 4 years 6 months ago #61150
I just had a look at some pictures of those Itoigawa Juniper 名媛直播's, and what a stunning little tree they are...with a price tag to match. :)
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Posted 4 years 6 months ago #61154
Every ne has their own mixture for soil. Yours should be very well draining because most of the time the tree will get lots of rain. You don't want soil that holds a lot of water. You probably want 1/3 each akadama, lava rock, and pumice, which you can probably order from somebody in the UK premixed. Donaff garden soil because it will retain too much water. In those rare spells in London when it doesn't rain every day you will have to water it when it dries out.
Don't believe the weather predictions. They say rain is coming to fool you into not watering. Even if it rains, check the tree.
For a comparison with London weather 140 years or so ago, read Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat.
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Posted 4 years 6 months ago #61174

Slugger wrote: I just had a look at some pictures of those Itoigawa Juniper 名媛直播's, and what a stunning little tree they are...with a price tag to match. :)


Yeah they can be expensive. I am lucky, I get to do basic styling of raw ittoigawas for free when I go to one of the traders 'nearby'.

But yeah, this one I bought, maybe 8 years ago as raw stock, Japan import:
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Posted 4 years 5 months ago #61287
Many thanks for the information Ivan.

I still haven't heard back from the company that sold the 名媛直播 Tree for their advice, so that is pretty poor customer service. :(

At the moment, it is still indoors as I wanted to find out what they said about it, but I have been making sure that it gets plenty of daylight. I also pruned the massively oversized leaves back on the branch to where they were at least a similar size to a majority of the small leaves.

I found the following options for buying some ready mixed soil, and would really appreciate advice on which one people would recommend please:





...unless there is another that could be recommended?

The current soil in the pot is nothing like any of those, and really just looks like plain compost to me.

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Posted 4 years 5 months ago #61288
Very nice Leatherback. I know you said you got it 8 years ago, but how old is it in total now?
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Posted 4 years 5 months ago #61289

Slugger wrote: Very nice Leatherback. I know you said you got it 8 years ago, but how old is it in total now?


I have no idea, and I do not really care tbh
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Posted 4 years 5 months ago #61397
It's a bit like how I consider my age then, old enough to be gnarly and wise, and old enough for it not to matter. :)
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