I will try but am not good photographing 'in the moment'.I can tell you that it is a great group, though!

Lucky you! I will make it to one of these meetings — eventually. Oh, and please don’t be a photography perfectionist.

It's not a question of perfection - I forget to take them!

Also, FB so much easier to post (phone app) that that's probably where any photos will go.

How does Jan Slama provide link to his facebook page even for those not signed into ?

do that

ron

Lots of reasons not to do that, including spam and hacking.

one person posted on ACS site discussions,,,,Bill Blevins posted real cool infrared photos

I stole one

Yes and there are lots of photos on Facebook,mostly on the NER Region Group page. Bill was having fun!

OH YAH , Sara , who got the Hale Bop ?

ron

It died in transit! But there were four Picea abies 'Vassar Broom' and I got one of those. I think that someone should paint a picture of a 'Hale Bop' and we'll just use that instead!

Here's a pic that I took today @ Nat'l Arboretum. I sure hope that at some point the ACS discussed the shortcomings of planting sequoiadendron in eastern US. People continually ask about this one on these forums and it should not be recommended for our area. Was it brought up? Anyone want to guess what the flagging tape around the trunk means?

I’ll make a wild guess that it has been targeted for removal. Just a hunch.

Yes, they mark trees in town (sometimes yellow but I think that's for DE) for removal.

Out in the country, the foresters use a lighter blue spray paint. They say it actually shows up better than red, that blends in with the natural colors.

You found my truck! :-)

Thanks for posting, very nice!

Nice garden bed.

Thanks for all the pix.

tj

Very nice! Is the bonsai Japanese White Pine from 1600’s still doing well? I wouldn’t want to be the person assigned the care of this plant when it finally succumbs. Anyone know what the oldest (verified) bonsai plant is?

Yes it is, it is remarkable. Apparently a few years back they observed that it wasn't growing straight so they cut the top off, took out a wedge and grafted it back together. How'd you like to be the person who did THAT?!?!?

I would prefer to enjoy it as a visitor to the arb. Just thinking of caring for it reminds me of the SW Airlines “Wanna Get Away” commercial.

Here is a pic from 6 years ago from the National Bonsai Collection. I have never found out what the tea bags are for.

I have tried to upload a photo about 10 times, won't load. Looks pretty much the same. The tea bags have fertilizer in them; leaches out when the plants are watered.

Can you imagine trying to count the rings? This would be a dendrochronologist’s nightmare!

from the ACS conference

Not the oldest - but still magnificent

That bottom picture looks as if it could be a grove of cedars in the deep woods somewhere. Enchanting. Thanks Mike!

A grove of forest trees in a shallow pan?! It’s so wrong, but so interesting.

Imagination! we need more of that. :-)