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Best Guesstimate Dawn Redwood - Day 64 2008-03-07 12:46:58 Today is the first day in the 360 degrees series! I realized yesterday after posting that the pot Willard is in does not have convenient 30 degree markers like other common objects such as a clock might have. Plus the pot has an oval shape and the usual photos are taken at an odd angle. [...]
Photo Improvements Dawn Redwood - Day 63 2008-03-06 18:56:08 As Willard has grown it has been more difficult to take good photos of it, so I keep trying different lighting, locations, and camera settings. Today’s photo seems to be one of the best that I have taken in a couple weeks. Starting tomorrow I will be rotating Willard 30 degrees a for [...] Read more:Photo
Seed Checkup Dawn Redwood - Day 62 2008-03-05 17:46:57 I mentioned in the comments the other day that I’m patiently waiting on seeds for European Olive and Trident Maple trees. The European Olive seeds are already in soil within seed trays, just waiting to germinate. I checked the moisture with the toothpick test today, and everything looks good, the soil is moist there [...]
Freshly Misted Dawn Redwood - Day 61 2008-03-04 16:38:09 Target finally has garden supplies out in preparation for spring, and in browsing their inventory I found a misting spray bottle and remembered that I needed one. So now I can mist the trees everyday, as this is a good practice for most any bonsai tree. Willard was misted right before the photo was taken, [...]
Progress Quick Glance Dawn Redwood - Day 60 2008-03-03 17:27:41 Sometimes I am looking at the blog and I think to myself, it’s same photo everyday, or at least some days it feels that way. So I took today as an opportunity to arrange a quick glance at the growth of the tree since it was planted 60 days ago. Below are thumbnail photos of [...] Read more:Quick
Re-potted at Correct Time Dawn Redwood - Day 59 2008-03-02 16:38:31 When I re-potted Willard, above, I thought that I may have been jumping the gun a bit too early. So I let the General wait in the original seed tray a bit longer. Unfortunately a couple of the leaves started to wilt on the General, while this tree is thriving in this new [...] Read more:Correct
Water Icon Dawn Redwood - Day 58 2008-03-01 14:29:27 You will notice that the text of this post is preceded with a new icon for the blog. This drop of water will be displayed on days that I water Willard, including today. Remember I use the toothpick test every day to determine if I need to water any of my bonsai [...]
Measurement Leap Day Dawn Redwood - Day 57 2008-02-29 16:46:37 Willard has grown to a height of 4 inches (about 10 cm), and the largest branch is just over 2 inches in length (6 cm). It seems to be growing out sideways faster than it is growing up. Hopefully this sideways growth will help to fatten the trunk, a trait that is highly valued in [...] Read more:Measurement
Baseball in the Air Dawn Redwood - Day 56 2008-02-28 17:04:52 Spring training is here, and despite the snow here in New England, the Red Sox playing in Florida is a sign that I will be able to get these trees outside soon. Today is college day with the Red Sox taking on Northeastern University, and that other college in the greater Boston area (Red Sox [...]
The General Dawn Redwood - Day 55 2008-02-27 10:01:59 Today I want to feature the second largest tree in my collection, that was planted a week and a half after Willard shown above. Seen in the photo below, I call this one the General
in reference to the two largest trees in the world, Giant Sequoias General Sherman and General Grant. I would [...]
We’re Half Way There Dawn Redwood - Day 69 2008-03-12 16:29:15 “Whoa, livin’ on a prayer”, haha, now you’ll have that Bon Jovi song stuck in your head all day. We’ve now seen 180 degrees of Willard, hitting the half way point of the 360 degrees series. The water icon is up today, but it probably should have been put on yesterdays post as I [...]
Art Premier Dawn Redwood - Day 68 2008-03-11 17:28:01 Today we are going a bit off topic for a world wide internet art premier of my friend Courtney’s work. The other month I was at her apartment and she had all of these paintings hanging, and I asked her where she bought them. It turns out she has taken up painting as [...] Read more:Premier
Branching Out Dawn Redwood - Day 67 2008-03-10 16:28:50 The other day I got a request in the comments to show the ruler again so everyone could see how big Willard is. It is now over 4 1/2 inches tall or about 12 cm (I apologize for my international readers the metric scale is backwards on this ruler). Today I noticed that the very [...]
Lost an Hour? Dawn Redwood - Day 66 2008-03-09 21:22:25 Somehow I lost an hour over the course of the day, if anyone knows where I put it please let me know. It will be nice to have the sun back in the afternoon since I’m not much of a morning person. Also it’s a nice sign that it is almost time to get [...]
Indoor Forest Dawn Redwood - Day 65 2008-03-08 14:43:10 Last week I re-potted all of the trees that were in my seed tray, and I forgot to get the photo up on the blog. Today I am finally featuring the full view of my little indoor forest, you can even see on the left side where the European Olive seeds are. Read more:Forest
Quick Photo Dawn Redwood - Day 71 2008-03-14 18:08:13 Everything took longer than it was supposed to today, so I only have time for a quick photo tonight. Willard is still spinning this week so come on back for the full 360 degrees series. Read more:Quick
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Monoecious Plant Dawn Redwood - Day 70 2008-03-13 20:08:10 After the tree was named Willard, I was asked about the sex of the tree and if dawn redwoods were referred to as male or female. It turns out that dawn redwoods are monoecious plants, meaning they have both male and female organs that grow on the same plant, but they are found in different [...] Read more:Plant
Irish History Dawn Redwood - Day 73 2008-03-16 16:53:18 Ireland may not have any snakes, but it most certainly has Dawn Redwoods like Willard. After the re-discovery of the tree, the Arnold Arboretum in Boston distributed specimens to locations all over the world. This included the Demesne garden, the first Irish
garden to grow the tree. Read more:History
St. Patrick’s Weekend Dawn Redwood - Day 72 2008-03-15 21:26:27 We cannot seem to figure out which day St. Patrick
’s day is this year, the Catholics are saying it’s today, the Boston parade is tomorrow, and a lot of the world is still celebrating on Monday. Willard decided to just go ahead and celebrate the whole weekend, he even went all out dressing in [...] Read more:Weekend
Complete 360 Degrees Dawn Redwood - Day 75 2008-03-18 18:50:52 Today ends the 360 degree series, and between the spinning and drinking, Willard is dizzy to say the least. In just those twelve days the branches have grown significantly, to compare I am adding the photo from the first day of the series to the bottom of this post. Tomorrow the ruler will [...] Read more:Degrees
Still Celebrating Dawn Redwood - Day 74 2008-03-17 16:00:28 The St. Patrick’s Weekend celebration continues today for the usual St. Patrick’s date. Willard is celebrating with a Sam Adam’s Irish Red beer in a Guinness pint glass, and that’s how we do it up here in Boston. Oh yes, and I’ll make sure not to let Willard drive tonight.
Wicked Popular Dawn Redwood - Day 77 2008-03-20 17:33:14 Since joining EntreCard, the traffic for Ken’s Trees has skyrocketed. One of the websites that keeps track of traffic on the internet is Alexa, it’s like the official internet popularity contest. When I checked the Alexa rank the other week, Ken’s Trees made it into the top 1 million websites online drawing 0.000325% of all [...] Read more:Wicked
Showing a Little Skin Dawn Redwood - Day 76 2008-03-19 16:58:18 As promised I got the ruler back next to Willard, and although he seems to be getting wider he is still just over 4 1/2 inches tall. When I take these measurement photos I wish that I had an extra arm, or maybe longer arms because it is difficult to get everything lined up and [...]
Trees Gone Wild 2008-03-23 19:05:44 Years ago when my little brother Allen was in Junior High School he bought this little plant at Home Depot. The thing just took off and would not stop growing, our parents had to build an addition on to the house just to contain this thing. Then it started getting too tall for [...] Read more:Trees
Escaping the Paparazzi Dawn Redwood - Day 78 2008-03-22 10:33:59 With all the new found fame, Willard is taking a break from the paparazzi this weekend to celebrate Easter. Actually I’m at my parents this weekend and did not feel comfortable transporting Willard yet. Once he is outside I think a small trip like that would not be as big of a problem. [...] Read more:Escaping
A View from Above Dawn Redwood - Day 82 2008-03-25 21:08:00 Now that we have seen the full 360 degrees of Willard, I thought that I would take a photo looking directly down on the tree. Below I have posted the view from above, one of the features you should note is the highest branch on the left. Just two weeks ago I posted a photo [...]
Posing With New Background Dawn Redwood - Day 81 2008-03-24 22:38:46 Willard is back and ready to pose for photos again, and using a new background color today. The tree is now wider than the pot it is in, the branches continue to grow but the top has slowed down. There seem to be three of what I can only describe as buds at the top [...]
Little Buds Dawn Redwood - Day 84 2008-03-27 19:44:48 The water icon is back today as I watered Willard this morning, it has been awhile since it has appeared on the site because I forgot to add it last Friday. The other day I mentioned three buds at the top of the tree, and after many attempts finally got a half way decent [...]
Procrastination Station Dawn Redwood - Day 83 2008-03-26 23:39:05 I ran out of time today (yesterday at this point), but I want to make sure to at least get the photo up. Tomorrow shouldn’t be too busy, although I think there is a new episode of Lost… Read more:Procrastination
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Double Dose Dawn Redwood - Days 86 & 87 2008-03-30 18:20:06 I’ve spent the last two days sick in bed and combined with the loss of internet yesterday, I have not been able to keep up a new post every day. So today we will have double dose of Willard, today’s photo above and yesterday’s photo below. Unfortunately, I feel asleep on Friday before I had [...]
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