🤣🤣 I had built a tiered bench just before I his with cement blocks and composite deck planks. . . then grew to needing a few more so jumped on the free metal bed frames in the interim 🤣

I would have brought bigger tools if I’d known 😜. Pretty sure my new shovel needs replacement after it’s first outing trying to lever them up at the end

And the crabapple is questionable- definitely a type of prunus or blackthorn . . . guess the fruit shall tell

Hopefully! Only time shall tell

@@Candice.BonsaiScience 😊 ⚘️

Thank you ❤️

Thank you

So lucky! The taps on these are out of this world!

@@Candice.BonsaiScience so far it has done great this spring

Thanks

All the way to middle earth!!!

I’ll have to check them out! Thanks!

2 are okay, still struggling but alive as most collected deciduous are this time of year. 2 no good signs yet. So 50:50. The American plum is pushing sucker branches so that’s great

Always keep as much as you can. I didn’t get much with these as they were growing in a very dry area at the edge of the large pine forest- so they sent massive tap roots 2-3x deeper then they were in height to find water to survive.

Don’t prune anything- leave them alone for 1-2 seasons until fully recovered.

They absolutely don’t airlayer easily

@@Candice.BonsaiScience some varieties may airliner better than others. You could wire the tap roots below ground to choke it off and force feeder roots to grow above that point. Cut it off in a year or two. Basically a ground layer. There has been success with oaks doing it on the tap rooot. Those things establish themselves early and can go really deep. Oof! They're a bugger to dig! Good luck! You have some really nice specimens there!

Thank you Alice!