grouper52
Masterpiece
My wife and I were at a nursery when we first moved here 6 years ago. There were a few Shimpakus that had been buried in a hillside in their original 1 gallon nursery pots years before. We each picked one. The owner dug them out for us, deciding to dig deep, and put the 1 gallon pot and the extended root ball that came out of it into a 5 gallon pot.
Over the next few years the trees recovered, and were reduced to the 1 gallon pot alone. The one I had chosen had appealed to me because I could see where it should go, stylistically.
My wife's tree wasn't so obvious. You can see where it came from by studying what's left, the trunk originally verticle rather than slanted as it is now. I sat with it several years before moving it in this direction last fall. It's warm enough now to root prune it a bit and move it from the nursery pot into a temporary quasi-bonsai pot, which shows where it's likely headed with more work and eventually a better pot.
Enjoy.
Over the next few years the trees recovered, and were reduced to the 1 gallon pot alone. The one I had chosen had appealed to me because I could see where it should go, stylistically.
My wife's tree wasn't so obvious. You can see where it came from by studying what's left, the trunk originally verticle rather than slanted as it is now. I sat with it several years before moving it in this direction last fall. It's warm enough now to root prune it a bit and move it from the nursery pot into a temporary quasi-bonsai pot, which shows where it's likely headed with more work and eventually a better pot.
Enjoy.