On my first and only visit to Kihachiro Kamiya’s nursery in 1999, I found Daisaku Nomoto working on a young black pine. It was close to 30 years old, and the tree was beautiful to me; it had a large base and fast taper and was more full than the pines I [...]
A couple of weeks ago we had the great pleasure to have Steve Pilacik to visit us in Fort Myers.He brought field grown Japanese Black Pines with him and that always means a treat for us Floridians. We all learned a great deal from Steve.He is an excellent [...]
