Tag: bonsai
Growing Melia azedarach from seed (chinaberry)
I recently picked up some unknown to me fruits from a tree in Venice. The PlanetNet app told me it’s probably Melia azedarach. Here is a picture of the fruits hanging on the tree. There is only a thin layer Weiterlesen…
Small bonsai pots from a recent firing
Here are some small (around 10 to 25 cm in diameter) bonsai pots that came out of a recent firing. Temperature was cone 5 or about 1200 °C on the pyrometer. The glaze is a commercial glaze that I never Weiterlesen…
UPDATE: Ficus macrophylla from seed
This is an update to a previous article. The ficus trees are now about 6 months old. The seeds initially germinated and grew all together in one small pot. I seperated them rather early and quite a few of the Weiterlesen…
Growing Ficus macrophylla from seed
In Reggio Calabria in southern Italy a number of huge trees line the boardwalk. The locals call them Ficus magnolioides. After some research I found there are a few names for this tree. The most common probably being Ficus macrophylla Weiterlesen…