#Bonsai i fashion youre a dreamer cracker#
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If you’re a longtime reader, you know about my health condition.

I have some big ones to move but I’m waiting for Saturday. The most work getting ready will be with moving the trees onto the ground. No, not from too much rain, but what happens if the water company loses power or a water main is pulled up by an uprooted tree and I can’t water the trees? What I’ll do is to get as many buckets as I can, any container, and fill them up with water so I have something to keep the trees alive. In the winter they’re leafless and give good sun, but I’m thinking that in this hurricane, I’ll have some damage from falling limbs. In the summer, the overhead trees have leaves and offer great sun protection. But most tropicals and deciduous need summer sun protection. Some do, like pines and juniper, which those “serious” bonsai people believe are the only “real” bonsai.

#Bonsai i fashion youre a dreamer full#

They’re good when the sun is baking the nursery (it’s a half truth that bonsai need full sun. The only thing I can do is to put them on the ground and under the benches. Lots of little trees and too many big trees. Now, most of the trees are in some stage of growth, in nursery pots or flats, growing trunks, branches, etc., but the “real” bonsai are too numerous to count. More than 1,000, less than 10,000 plants, propagation only for self use, inspected, selected, registered and categorized, and official a real nursery. Technically, Adam’s Art and Bonsai Studio and Nursery is an official nursery.

#Bonsai i fashion youre a dreamer cracker#

I have more trees than I can fit into my little, 100 year old, 980 sq ft, broke down palace cracker house. I think that, when the hurricane finally arrives, there will be people so weary of the words and pics and video, that they won’t believe it, and they’ll get hurt.īut I’m not here to criticize the 24 hour news cycle (there’s a fine line between making sure people understand the danger and fatiguing them, causing carelessness, and I’m not sure I’m smart enough to draw that line), I’m a bonsai blog guy and I’m going to show you some of the things I’m doing to prepare.įirst, what I’ve told everyone else to do with their trees is to bring them inside. It’s been very stressful watching the spaghetti models and the “cone of uncertainty” graphics that the elite talking heads of the meteorological world have been effusively drooling over for the past week. This is the forecast at 11 am on Friday 8 August. Cantore in the nose) of a hurricane or rain band, that’s just a regular old shelf cloud last Sunday.īut, amazingly, here comes Irma. Don’t worry, it wasn’t the leading edge or the eye wall (if I hear the phrase “the stadium effect” one more time I’m going down to Miami and punch Mr.