Dealing with Stress: A Minor Miracle – part 2

Sixteen years ago, this tree… …looked like this! If you want to know how this seemingly miraculous recovery happened, keep reading (you might want to take a look at yesterday’s post first if you haven’t already).

Dealing with Stress: A Minor Miracle – part 1

Uh oh. Looks like a goner. This photo is from an article in Bonsai Today issue 9 (long out of print). The artist and author is K. Onishi. The tree is a Japanese Black pine (Pinus thunbergii). The cause of the stress is a late freeze, though dessication (drying out) might produce the same effect.