{"id":2907,"date":"2023-06-23T14:32:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T04:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2023-06-23T14:32:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T04:32:13","slug":"digging-field-grown-trees-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/?p=2907","title":{"rendered":"Digging Field grown Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I don’t usually start digging the grow beds until July but a Shibui Bonsai customer has been keen to learn more by volunteering to help. Jim had a couple of days off work due to wet weather so we picked a dry day and got started a week early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jim is younger and enthusiastic. He started on the shovel and kept me so busy pruning that I did not get any photos of the actual dig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a few hours we managed to dig and do a rough top and root prune on most of the larger trident maples, some Japanese maples, a few crab apples and some of the first year tridents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Japanese maples<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Crab apples<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tridents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

They have all been ‘heeled in’ to a spare patch where they can wait until I’m ready to do a final inspection to decide if they get potted for sale, put back in the grow beds for more growth or go on the scrap heap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Still plenty of trees to do but I have all winter so I just do a few any time I can. The trees pictured are Prunus ‘Elvins’, Hawthorn and more crab apples with a couple of Seiju elms for good measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trees in the picture were all chopped and root pruned last winter so nearly all of the 2m of growth shown has emerged through last summer.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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