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The
Bonsai Society of Greater Springfield
Club Dig for Bonsai
by
Dave Glazewski
Part
Two
One of the great benefits of joining a Bonsai Club or Society has
to be organised digs; where an area has too many trees for just one
individual to collect, the club can become involved and with permission
from the landowner, it's members invited to dig trees for their own
bonsai collections. As well as offering an opportunity to collect
material that is not ordinarily obtainable, club digs are an excellent
way for beginners to learn from experienced collectors.
In this article, Dave Glazewski of The Bonsai Society of Greater Hartford,
Connecticut, shows the dig from April of 2005. My thanks go to Dave
for his text and pictures.
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Once
back home, it was time to pot up the newly collected trees.
This is a
Hornbeam that came from a swampy area of the field. Because
of the lack of oxygen lower down in the wet clay soil, all the
roots were living in the forest mulch on top of the clay. This
tree didn't require digging at all, I just had to cut the roots
and pick it up.
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Once
the soil was washed off, you could see
the mass of fine roots that the Hornbeam had.
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Here's a picture
of the Hornbeam in its pot in the shade behind the shed. At a previous
meeting at my club, guest speaker Jim Doyle of Nature's Way Nursery
told us to help promote budding he wraps the whole trunk in sphagnum
moss and soaks the moss with Superthrive and KLN (which is a rooting
hormone) and then keeps the moss moist. The guys at the dig said
they should pop buds out very soon and this was only necessary for
trees that were collected later in the season.
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Apple #1
Once the clay was washed off the roots, you can see where I had
to cut a heavy tap root, forunately there are plenty of fine roots
around the nebari to sustain the tree.
Finally, the
apple potted up.
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Apple #2 didn't
have as many roots as #1 and the nebari will need development but
I liked the movement of the trunk. |
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