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What I was hoping for here were some "stay away" advice ... like
"don't try norfolk island pine, or eastern red cedar" ...
Please give me a common name for Enkianthus.

Stay away from norfolk island pine. But Eastern red cedar is a fun tree to play with, take it from me. I have more of them than anything else.

Stay away from serissas. Trust me. You can buy buy slow-growing trees now to work on later, but to work on now you'll have more fun with fast growing plants like crabapple. Similarly, trees that don't bud back well, like many pines and Chamaecyparis, can
be bought now, but are better left to gain trunk girth while you learn the basics on more forgiving trees. Like barberry, which will recover from almost anything you do to it, and which is a beautiful bonsai.

According to Michael Dirr (book you should check out of the library, or buy: Manual of woody landscape plants, by M.A. Dirr), the common name for Enkianthus is "enkianthus".

Nina Shishkoff


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