just.wing.it
Deadwood Head
A maple that grew under the fence and leaned into my yard....and an Ilex from the depot.
The maple is obviously from a seed....I have a large Sugar Maple on the other side of the property.....likely this is from that one.
Growing from under the fence for a few years gave it a nice curve in the whole trunk....just as buds were swelling I chopped it back to two leaders, cut the roots back to almost nothing and planted it in the pond basket with lava pumice and bark.....been a growing machine since....might have a good future.
The Ilex, I just cut it back hard and what you see is the profuse back budding from everywhere.....I even rubbed some buds off from bad spots.
The maple is obviously from a seed....I have a large Sugar Maple on the other side of the property.....likely this is from that one.
Growing from under the fence for a few years gave it a nice curve in the whole trunk....just as buds were swelling I chopped it back to two leaders, cut the roots back to almost nothing and planted it in the pond basket with lava pumice and bark.....been a growing machine since....might have a good future.
The Ilex, I just cut it back hard and what you see is the profuse back budding from everywhere.....I even rubbed some buds off from bad spots.