Spring Bonsai Maintenance - Maple, Apricot, Chinese Quince - Kouka-en 2022

A brief overview of what's happening at Fujikawa Kouka-en in 2022 with Michael McTeague, a second year apprentice. This first episode covers Spring maintenance on various deciduous trees as well as pest and needle blight/fungus management.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:45 Chinese Quince Spring Pruning
1:44 White Pine Needle Blight Management
2:23 Cotton Aphid Management
2:45 Japanese Maple Partial Defoliation
6:25 Flowering Apricot Spring Pruning
8:56 Scale Insect Eradication Method on Ume
10:46 100 yr old Maple Partial Defoliation
11:33 Parting thoughts
11:55 Thanks for watching/outro

Music:
Beats to procrastinate to - Stevia Sphere
https://steviasphere.bandcamp.com/alb...

Ikeda - Michael McTeague

Soft Spoken - Stevia sphere
https://steviasphere.bandcamp.com/alb...

Tiny House Living (pitched down 1 octave) - Stevia Sphere
https://steviasphere.bandcamp.com/alb...

Bioluminescence - acoustic demo (bonus track) - Stevia Sphere
https://steviasphere.bandcamp.com/alb...