valleylynn said:I'm not sure what I will end up doing with it. I am thinking that this year I will put it in a larger container. It is difficult to keep it watered in the bowl it is in right now.

Have you ever seen a medical drip bottle working? So you know the principle. Go to an aquarium shop and get some tubing(air pipe), controller just like on drip bottle and use any PET bottle and start your own drip line. From the aquarium shop get a nozzle to connect two sections of drip line. Put the nozzle into the bottle cap, fix with silicon glue slip on tubing. Close your eyes and imagine, you will get what I am trying to put across. Rate of drops is in your hands, put a pinch of fertiliser in PET bottle if you wish plus vinegar if it is a acid loving plant. Half teaspoon should be enough in a two litter bottle but if you are feeling adventurous you can get a PH test kit from the fish shop and if you really want to go out on a limb, you can also get a DH test kit. Have fun, go for the Bonsai.
Regards,
Arif.

Above Fig I am thinking of growing over a rock.

Can you make out what this sly creature is trying to say

Loved your article Sharon and the thread, sorry I answered Lynn while reading her thread so it took me a while to reach the end. Had to appreciate the trees .
Regards,
Arif.

I love this photo. My brother-in-law took it when they were here Thanksgiving. I pass them everyday on my walk with the dogs. It's poplar and Hank calls them the 5 sisters

Yup, chatting with their heads together.
Regards,
Arif.

I took this photo last spring, while visiting Garden of the God's in Colorado.
A most fascinating, ancient juniper. It roots are growing along the rock surface and disappear under a bolder. Such amazing trees.



Arif, second photo looks to be a submissive pose.
What kind of fig is your little tree? How do you get it started, growing on a rock?

Awesome photo's Lynn

I have loved trees since my first memories. I actually hugged that one.

Hugging a tree is good for the soul.
And trees don't seem to mind.

Cute doggies, Arif,

Love the 5 Sisters, Vic, with their heads together plotting their next adventure.

Cool trees, Lynn. And aren't trees on rocks just amazing.

Supplication, these plants know the truth better. Hostile environment forces it into supplication/beseeching in front of HIM and he listens to their entreaty. Most plants in this kind of environment that I have seen are in that pose. Sharon will agree.
Even your Juniper look close, it is in supplication but look at what they are surviving in love and hot air. On an aside, these rock out crops, what you see above ground is not the complete truth. Like an iceberg bulk of it is hidden and just behind these sort of out crops rain water accumulates underground. Good place to dig for water in an emergency.
That Ficus, Ficus religousa or Buddha's tree. These Ficus, birds deposit seeds encapsulated with nutrient rich goodness on the domes of temples and in time they sprout and spread out their roots along the bricks. Terracotta bricks hold moisture and micro nutrients, enough for the Fig to send down its roots to the soil. Then it goes into overdrive and sends roots all around the structure. These roots fuse/graft together to form a crenelated form of trunk. After half a century or so, it feels as if some one has carved/built the temple inside the tree. Very good for Bonsai this Fig, does not need much soil and can take a lot of punishment in the water department. In short it is an Epi even though you grow it in the soil. If it lands in the fork of a tree, though it is not parasitic but it strangles the tree in the end.
Thank you Sharon, it was trying to make a fool out of me. Girls . Just like the five sisters conspiring.
Regards,
Arif.

Arif!

And on a much smaller scale, my brick arches are about 10 feet tall, and this little green growth is far above my own 5'; still it grows:



These photos were taken in winter a February or two ago.

I love Vic's photo of the 5 sisters. I feel like they really do communicate with each other.

Sharon, I was mesmerized by this particular tree. I lost track of how long I stayed by it. If I had been by myself I would have spent most of the day beside it. I couldn't help but wonder what this tree had experienced and who in the far past had seen it.
What is the long, dormant stem? Isn't it amazing how little it take for some plants to find a place to grow.

Ahh, didn't think it looked like the edible type fig tree.
I have seen amazing photos of the type ficus you are talking about Arif. Can't wait to see what you do with this one.

The long dormant stem is from my river birch tree.

Wonderful Sharon.

Seen a little better with the brick arches here, though it's much bigger now.

Beautiful Sharon.

It sure is Sharon

Sharon, that is exactly what these figs do here. Grow in cracks and then take over but that growing on your wall is it some kind of Oxalis?
Lynn, Buddha tree, Banyan tree, wild figs edible, Paper mulberry, garden variety Ficus, edible cultivated figs they all tend to do the same. You can have entire village built under the shelter of a single Banyan. Couple of weeks left and then you can start fig cuttings. Glue a waxed paper cup on top of a rock and start your cutting in there, the cup will dissolve in two months time leaving the Fig not much of an option except to cling to the rock.
Regards,
Arif.

Might be this, Arif: Creeping Charlie (Glechoma hederacea)
Also known as Creeping Charlie.

It didn't hang around very long. I think it probably fell to the ground and kept right on creeping.

We also have things that look just like your Creeping Charlie and they behave the same. Your Charlie has baby blue flowers while ours if I remember correctly has purple and egg yolk yellow. Height brings pride and ego, I think I should start looking down with wide open eyes at the downtrodden. Another thing to carry my looking glasses, near and far. Might have to get trousers with pockets galore, running up and down the leg.
One full size Axe(sometimes I have to make my way/protection against jackals, hyenas, snakes, wild boar plus unfriendly humans), one shovel/pickaxe combo(trenching tool), knife camera and now glasses.
Regards,
Arif.