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2011 It the start of a new year in many ways for me, and hopefully for the
better.My surgeon pronounced me in december, and my oncologist will be seeing me
only two or three times a year to make sure that everything is still ok.I am
back to working now, but manual labor is still limited to three or four hours a
day and i am still not up to speed in terms of strength and endurance.That will
still take several more months.Knock on wood, i am probably as normal as i am
going to get.There no getting around getting older(65 this year), and this means
I have to work smarter.No more abusing the body in heroic efforts of grunt
labor. And to that end, the nursery is getting leaner and more mature.If you are
a long time customer, you have no doubt seen the catalog offerings diminish
slightly each year.We will also stop selling tools sometime this year.But having
said that, the offerings won change much from here on out, although some things
are not going to be offered in smaller sizes.It is time to develop the massive
amount of mature inventory that we have and concentrate more on specimen trees.I
still hope to get a decent amount of this material online, starting this year.I
know, i have been saying that for years, but this year, there is a sizeable
number of plants that are advanced far enough to be sold.I just finished pruning
the pines, and there are some fantastic trunks that were revealed.The plants are
a little naked right now, but that is best for seeing the possibilities, so i
will photograph much of it this spring and followup with a second set of photos
after the new growth emerges this summer. So what coming out?The long wait for
cutting grown specimens of pinus thunbergii gen and nishiki is just about
over.These will probably be the first specimen pines offered, starting at $150
and up for twelve year old cutting grown material.A limited amount of cultivars
may also make it to the website this summer, including a few larger and black
pines.We also have about fifty junipers in five gallon size that will be soon
cut back and offered this spring or summer.These are great workshop trees with 1
1/2 inch caliper trunks and great branching.These will start at $150.I have been
selling a number of 7 gallon ancient mugo pines at the nursery and hope to offer
some of these as well.These trees are over twenty years old and have had
considerable training over the years.I have been pricing these at $200 each and
folks have been gobbling them up. The big field grown maples that i got from
randy knight of oregon bonsai have finally begun to get some branch taper and
ramification.It has been quite a struggle since our area isn really suitable for
japanese maples.But that struggling has finally turned them into fantastic,
unique trees with four iaelorstasenoutlet to six inch trunks,
but they are only twelve to sixteen inches tall.These are starting at $400.Many
of the rescued trees were repotted and pruned last summer and are now ready to
go.There are many one and two gallon deciduous trees in this lot.Specimen one
gallon material is starting at $75.And lastly, a good deal of field grown
material can be dug this year, although i may not get around to doing more than
a handful of these since it so much work and there so much to do.But this stuff
just keeps getting bigger and better.From this area you get unique offerings
like three and four inch scarlet hawthorn trunks that are cutting grown, not
grafted, and a half dozen different cultivars of cutting grown crabapples with
large trunks. And what about the future?Well, i put about fifty cedars in the
ground last year, and an equal number of black pines.There are about forty jose
junipers in containers and in the ground with enormous trunks of six to eight
inches.These are real monsters that are still being pruned for back branching
and will make awesome specimens with either their own foliage or grafted over to
these are probably too big and heavy to ship and will be available for nursery
pickup only.I will probably began to unload a lot of my larger japanese maples
soon.It is just too difficult to protect this much larger stock from our spring
freezes.I need to cut them down to size and start moving them. We have plans for
a larger greenhouse soon, hopefully this spring, and that will be our last
nursery construction project.It been a long road since 1998, and i glad it
almost over, and none too soon!We still have work to do on the house and
property, but the pace is definitely slowing down and my time and energy can go
into more plant development.Bonsai is a funny business.If you want to make
money, you sell a jillion little crappy junipers in $2 chinese pots with zero
long term interest in plant material.But if you really want to do bonsai, then
you spend your life developing one or two crops.Since i was in my thirties when
i got started, it has been a single crop and little more.Inventory isn just
stuff you sell, it passing on life to friends.You try to charge as little as
possible to make sure it goes to good homes, but you have to collect for half a
lifetime of care.It a tough call.
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