BobbyLane
Imperial Masterpiece
Fagus sylvatica purpurea, this is a first styling of a cheap, field grown, nursery plant. I had initially wanted to try a raft with this material but after some thought, ive gone with a slanting style tree, it has some ideal characteristics with a long anchoring root which ive left exposed...
The tree arrived as a balled root ball
I decided to remove the hessian and just lump the root ball on a China mist slab, pretty much a slip n wire in job with minimal disturbance, so kept a lot of the field soil and packed and mixed in some good free draining soil..
When the tree becomes established i can remove this obtrusive wire
Some roots to work with, in time these should gain some character
A Hawthorn i photographed recently is a dead ringer
A leaning Oak tree on a slope
Just need to build up the ramification over time. looking forward to the leaf colour that will add some interest on my balcony, one of the reasons i wanted a copper beech.
The tree arrived as a balled root ball
I decided to remove the hessian and just lump the root ball on a China mist slab, pretty much a slip n wire in job with minimal disturbance, so kept a lot of the field soil and packed and mixed in some good free draining soil..
When the tree becomes established i can remove this obtrusive wire
Some roots to work with, in time these should gain some character
A Hawthorn i photographed recently is a dead ringer
A leaning Oak tree on a slope
Just need to build up the ramification over time. looking forward to the leaf colour that will add some interest on my balcony, one of the reasons i wanted a copper beech.