Hornbeam No.11 progression

[Maros]

A couple of December images without foliage.

 

[Maros]

Hornbeam after repotting and slight change of the position. Now, sitting in the pot much better. It took only 15 years to remove sufficient amount of thick roots and elements.

 

[snowman04]

Hornbeam after repotting and slight change of the position. Now, sitting in the pot much better. It took only 15 years to remove sufficient amount of thick roots and elements.View attachment 591040View attachment 591041

Beautiful!!!

 

[Adamski77]

Hornbeam after repotting and slight change of the position. Now, sitting in the pot much better. It took only 15 years to remove sufficient amount of thick roots and elements.View attachment 591040View attachment 591041

patience and persistence... lovely tree... and great to see how over very long time you tackle some of these obvious challenges that material has. We all have same problems... and here I can see how they are getting solved (or hidden )

 

[Maros]

Beautiful!!!

thanks

patience and persistence... lovely tree... and great to see how over very long time you tackle some of these obvious challenges that material has. We all have same problems... and here I can see how they are getting solved (or hidden )

Collected material presents many challenges, and it requires some time to deal with them. I was lucky to find and save this tree (now the place is bulldozed, and a stone mine extends where it was growing in 2010) and develop it into something presentable. And you are right: We sometimes have to hide our ugly parts and show only the good sides. We are lucky if there is a good side to show. Thanks again

 

[baldone]

Can't wait to see it with all the foliage. Very nice!

 

[Maros]

I was preparing the hornbeam for the weekend exhibition and took a few pictures.

 

[LeftHandLuke]

and took a few pictures.

One of the best hornbeam specimens ever. Just beautiful. Thanks for sharing. I apologize if you get a wave of primal jealousy from me. I'm trying to control that more.

 

[Maros]

One of the best hornbeam specimens ever. Just beautiful. Thanks for sharing. I apologize if you get a wave of primal jealousy from me. I'm trying to control that more.

Thanks for your compliments.

 

[ForrestW]

Such an inspirational tree! thanks for sharing all the process.

 

[BobbyLane]

Are you creating a hollow on the Tree, Maros? I noticed the scar when you shared it on FB and I know its not like you to create this type of feature intentionally, so my first thought was something prompted you to do this, maybe an imperfection in the bark or some type of injury.

If you do decide to open it up inside the perimeters of the callusing scar, will be a great feature for this specimen.

 

[Maros]

Are you creating a hollow on the Tree, Maros? I noticed the scar when you shared it on FB and I know its not like you to create this type of feature intentionally, so my first thought was something prompted you to do this, maybe an imperfection in the bark or some type of injury.

If you do decide to open it up inside the perimeters of the callusing scar, will be a great feature for this specimen.

You are right. I would like to avoid hollow there. Bark on that place cracked some time ago. During spring work I looked at it thoroughly and cut away dried bark. I want the wound to heal. It was covered with cut paste whole spring and summer. But the tree went on our National exhibition in August and I do not wanted gray paste being visible. So I scratched it out. I knew I will display it in September again on local exhibition so didn't recover it paste.
I'm going to recut the callus and reapply the paste, maybe this weekend. Plan A it to heal it. If it fails I will go for plan B and make Uro.