Green Atlas 8/25/05



	Atlas Cedar on 8/25/05, just after I prepared it for the Redwood Empire Bonsai Society (REBS) annual show. As you can see, the foliage density has increased in the last year. Background: This is the first atlas cedar that I grew in the ground. I started with a nondescript tree from a local club auction, probably in the early 1980's. It was about 1 1/4" in diameter & I'm sure that it didn't cost much. Planted next to my driveway near the sidewalk in Berkeley, it grew so well without irrigation or fertilizer that I had to drastically prune it evrey 4-6 months. Cedars always try to grow upwards, so I tied sticks to the lower branches & guyed them down to try to force the lower branches downward. Those branches got too large & I eventually sawed them off. Later I wished that I had left a small peg at the center of those branches to suggest that they were much smaller than they actually were. I moved 65 miles north to Occidental in 1995, so the tree was dug in either early 1994 or early 1995, after about ten years or so in the ground. It had three large roots & not much else, but survived the move just fine. >One Year Later: August 2006, in a new pot Green Atlas Development Photos