I thought I would post this big ol' spruce to maybe stir up some positive bonsai discussions. Lets see how it goes
This was dug from a landscape almost 2 years ago. Since then it has done pretty well, pushing lots of new growth. I left this out at the farm under some large oak trees and the leaves that fell blocked out any sunlight to the right trunks apex. That in combonation with the sprinkler not hitting the soil 100% made it kinda weak and lots of tiwggy growth died off. This is ok though.
I brought it home the end of this summer knowing I would keep it wet, fed and happy. THis also allowed me to look at it and start to put a game plan together. This is a huge tree....the base is over 2' across at the soil and the tree stands around 5 foot tall.
From the get go I decided a trunk had to go, I need to get rid of the slingshot look that it has. With the left side bieng very healthy and the right side less healthy I think I will jin the right side. This will require a bunch of chainsaw work followed up with a die grinder and a dremel.
These pictures are pretty bad, very busy background etc... But the question is, if this were your tree what would you do? Would you make it a very large bonsai, would you get rid of a trunk, would you just use it in the landscape, burn it, how would you style it?
I just want to get some discussion going here and figured this would be a good tree with many options to start such a thing....
So, what would you do?
Proposed FRONT
BACK
By the way, my doggies say HI!!!
This was dug from a landscape almost 2 years ago. Since then it has done pretty well, pushing lots of new growth. I left this out at the farm under some large oak trees and the leaves that fell blocked out any sunlight to the right trunks apex. That in combonation with the sprinkler not hitting the soil 100% made it kinda weak and lots of tiwggy growth died off. This is ok though.
I brought it home the end of this summer knowing I would keep it wet, fed and happy. THis also allowed me to look at it and start to put a game plan together. This is a huge tree....the base is over 2' across at the soil and the tree stands around 5 foot tall.
From the get go I decided a trunk had to go, I need to get rid of the slingshot look that it has. With the left side bieng very healthy and the right side less healthy I think I will jin the right side. This will require a bunch of chainsaw work followed up with a die grinder and a dremel.
These pictures are pretty bad, very busy background etc... But the question is, if this were your tree what would you do? Would you make it a very large bonsai, would you get rid of a trunk, would you just use it in the landscape, burn it, how would you style it?
I just want to get some discussion going here and figured this would be a good tree with many options to start such a thing....
So, what would you do?
Proposed FRONT
BACK
By the way, my doggies say HI!!!