My fingers are tightly crossed. I dug up a good-size rosemary in
St. Petersburg 2 weeks ago now and brought it up here to N. Fla.
The articles on Rosemary bonsai that were pointed out to me or
sent (THANKS everyone! And Ed, page 11 [second page of the
article] seems to be missing???????) all note that one should
NEVER dig one in the "growing season," which this certainly was.
I had no choice, however.

They also imply that if problems arise, death is evident almost
immediately.

Well, this one still looks OK.

I moved it from ground to large pot in less than 20 seconds and
got most of the rootball. It still is growing in the find sand
it was used to in St. Pete Beach. I'm hoping that it didn't
notice that anything happened. ;-) Probably wishful
thinking, since there is near unanimity on the
don't-collect-in-the-growing-season dictum. I cut it back a LOT.
It has 3 twisty two-inch trunks. If it survives it'll make a
nice three-trunk tree, but I may take it down to two trunks.

The old Natal plum I dug a day later also still looks good (and
I'm still trying to figure out what I'm going to do with it this
winter; it's much too large to come indoors and I don't have a
light-enough area for it, anyway).

Ever hopeful . . . (And grinding my crossed fingerbones).

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - "People,
when Columbus discovered this country, it was plum full of nuts
and berries. And I'm right here to tell you the berries are just
about all gone." -- Uncle Dave Macon, old-time musician

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