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• Sunday, March 15th, 2009
So the Flower and Garden Festival starts this Wednesday and I am rushing to get my tree at its best for display.  Mother Nature hasn’t been too cooperative and we had a very cold winter.  However my tree has produced tons of flowers, but it is taking a while to put out the leaves as well. I placed the tree outside my screen patio to get additional sunlight to get the leaves to fill in.
Bouganvillea REady for Epcot

Bouganvillea Ready for Epcot

However with that issue taken care of, The Bonsai Societies of Florida Convention starts Thursday and I am to display two trees there.  The problem again are the leaves.  In this case, there aren’t really any to speak of.

Waiting for leaves to appear

Waiting for leaves to appear

I hope this peek of Spring helps many of you to get inspired to start working on your trees.  This is certainly one of my favorite times of the year.


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• Saturday, October 18th, 2008


Wow! This tree has been so wonderful to work with, and so rewarding. The past two weeks this tree has put out another batch of flowers while the rest of my collection begins to prepare for dormancy in a few months. I think it is just showing off. In any case I knew I had to get some pictures now to submit for consideration for next year’s Epcot Flower and Garden Festival. In my opionion this tree is ready and will look great on display.


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• Thursday, August 21st, 2008


After the tree leafed out it really showed a nearly finished bonsai. Only thing missing now is flowers. Hopefully we’ll see some this fall. Aug 08


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• Saturday, June 21st, 2008


Today I defoliated the tree today to find a mess of crossing branches and undefined branch structure. The tree is very healthy however and was full of thorns. June 2008


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