Spring and the Royal Oak Seedlings, The Bonsai Zone, Feb 2023
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- Spring seems to be coming, at least in my greenhouse!
Today I'm cleaning up my Royal Oak (Quercus robur) seedings, getting them ready for spring.
To see previous videos of these seedlings, click on the playlist here...
• Royal Oak Bonsai
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I think that spoon is also a bar spoon for mixing cocktails. The bulb on the end is to crack ice or to use as a muddler, hence the crosshatched grooves on the top. Cheers! 😉
Exactly!
We are definitely singing from the same song sheet when it comes to pruning larches. Too many times i have pruned eagerly only to find that the buds I kept turned out to be already dead. I love how everything is starting to leaf out again. My mame Forsythia is just starting t show the signs of yellow flowers. The only issues is the knowledge that we will get a hard frost sometime in the next 4 weeks :)
Hi Nigel. I've been reading the latest research on why some deciduous trees keep their leaves, and they now believe that it has got nothing to do with protection from the weather, and is in fact a method of hiding buds from being eaten by deer.
Thanks for the info Tony, interesting!!
Hi Nigel great work you are a great teacher
Missed the live chat. wanted to say about the Amur maple is from the Amur river valley that separates Siberia from Manchuria. It's my experience that those super hardy trees are the first to break dormancy. As you know they are typically more tolerant of fluctuations but not immune. Enough of nerdy tree stuff
Thanks, good stuff!!
Cool!!
a bluetooth speaker playing a lullaby all day long will keep your trees dormant ! that's how it works right ?
Ha, I wish!!
Nice to see so many of your plants breaking bud now. Spring is just around the corner. HOORAY!
I love the leaves on those oaks... Your bunnies are brown already!! Ours are still white! Night temperatures are back down to -25 to -30C but daytime temperatures are -5C and up! well, this week LOL. Tom finds the neatest things!
Daggum! Such an early spring flush! I know you were bragging about the greenhouse extending your growing season, but daaaaang!
I hope it’s not too expensive keeping it warm until the real spring arrives, brother. And I’m diggin your reasoning behind late trims in the larch forest!
A lot of my cuttings from last year broke already. I wonder why they tend to break earlier than the parent tree, Im sure there's some hormonal reason, but just an observation. My kitchen is gonna be CROWDED if the Mid Atlantic gets another hard freeze, I have maybe 8ish trees that have already started bud swelling. Thursday here is gonna be close to 80F (27C) 😬😓
Nigel, what determines if you plant in a pond basket verses a pot or seed tray? I know pond baskets can/do provide additional air flow to the roots but what is the determining factor for which plants get the basket? Thanks...
Royal oak is native to my area and as far as I know they keep the dead leaves as protection against predators like deer. As oaks grow taller they often retain the leaves on lower branches through winter but shed all of them above a certain height, this seems to support the claim that it helps protect against ground herbivores. If it were to protect against cold and drying winter winds they upper most leaves were the most important to leave hanging.
Mr. Saunders, Your tropical plants in the plant room are wide awake. And I was wondering if you are fertilizing them throughout the winter or when do you resume that operation??
Thoid
Do you have other house plants in your home besides bonsai. Maybe dumb question. Just curious.
I tried to figure out what Royal Oaks are called here in Denmark, but couldn't find anything. What's the latin name of Royal Oaks?
English oaks, I think the term royal oak perhaps isn't used much here in Europe. Latin name is "Quercus robur"
I see the rabbits are here for their apprenticeship, once you teach them well, you can send them my way. Sure looks like spring in the greenhouse, but we are getting into March, winter is almost over!
Winter won't give up without a fight, and spring can be lazy!!!
I am also in a hurry to get my repotting done, as it‘s currently too warm and my trees speed up
Thanks for the update on the larches! None in my forest is budding yet but the other ones are!
Question for you...what are "royal oaks"? I've tried looking up the variety, but all I get are references to the city of Royal Oak here in Michigan. Do you have the botanical name? Thanks!
"Royal Oaks" as he calls them are an English oak tree. Here in the UK I think we just call it the "common oak tree". Quercus robur
@@Stettafire thanks for the assistance. It is much appreciated. :)
I have a Pin Oak tree that's about 150 years old and it looses all it's leaves every winter. It just likes to be naked I guess
First winter I had my acer capestre it kept most of it's leaves, it kept some of them this year too. I wasn't expecting that TBH
Pond baskets are $3 at Lowe’s
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Mmmm... the larch forrest
A bar spoon for your bonsai 😂😂
Lol you should see the size of the bunnies out here, the first time I saw one I thought it was someone’s dog!!
Cool Aaron!!
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Updates looking good. Oaks look cool. All ready for spring. Hope the spoon helps.
I’ve got some English Oak acorns on the go compliments of Tony from @Tony’s Bonsai. Planted them up last fall and hoping they sprout this spring. Those small leaves are fantastic. I’m really looking forward to seeing what you have planned for yours. Thanks, keep growing
Give them another couple of months and they'll be appearing Matt. And that comes with a Tony money-back guarantee!
I live next to an oak tree and I get oak seedlings cropping up all the time. I dug up a few last year and thankfully I have one that looks pretty happy in it's small pot. It's got buds but they're not swelling yet... Although the parent tree is nearly in leaf now. I'm not 100% confident it's doing ok, but all we can do is try
@@TonysBonsai ,, haha thanks pal
@@Stettafire I reckon it will be okay
The best way is to keep trees in their natural environment as long as you can. They will grow and stay dormant like they should. I keep my European native species outside for the whole year. During Winter, I put them to the basement only when I know that frost will drop below -10C/-15C for longer time.
It depends. A lot of our natives are totally fine in the ground, but in pots their tolerances drop significantly. I ahve some heather, which is native and is normally 100% fine with our weather. I have some in ground and some in pots and the ones in pots are really suffering this year, not sure they'll pull through
Foist
you get to enjoy it so much earlier with the grreen hosue
Your cactus doesn't look good
Timestamp?