Potawatomi13
Imperial Masterpiece
Absolute baloney. Cheese better to eat instead.
Thanks. Yes, they’re all from the nature reserve where I live (and my girlfriend is the head warden of). Aside from a couple I got the local farmer’s permission for.Very nice finds......
Hopefully you got permission to collect all those?
Thanks. I have been toying with the idea myself, especially seeing as only one trunk has woken up.Nice stuff.
BTW, I'd separate the twin blackthorns. I've seen the "embracing/affectionate/whateveritis" design tried before. It Works out to be an odd-looking twin trunk , wasting both trunks that have more value as individuals.
I'd check the root masses under and around each trunk...All things being equal, I'd just saw them apart. I saw a forest planting of hornbeam a while ago that had two trees "embracing" in the middle of it--basically trunks like these--It was distracting and most of all, too literal and forced.Thanks. I have been toying with the idea myself, especially seeing as only one trunk has woken up.
Initially, when I first saw it I instantly thought artsy fartsy sculptural, non trad bonsai, triangular foliage pad in an overall Japanese pagoda type shape thing. A proper marmite type tree. But now I’m not so sure. It’d probably end up looking like a botched topiary spaceship or something...
Assuming both trunks survive, would you just layer the smaller one or try and separate them like conjoined twins?
Yes I can see that could be the case. Obviously I’ve got to wait a couple of years before I can check the roots again anyway so i’ll have a bit more idea about whether I’m dealing with one trunk or two.I'd check the root masses under and around each trunk...All things being equal, I'd just saw them apart. I saw a forest planting of hornbeam a while ago that had two trees "embracing" in the middle of it--basically trunks like these--It was distracting and most of all, too literal and forced.
Yea I reckon...not sure how everyone’s going to take a nature reserve with no trees left though!Ill have to keep you in mind, collecting cool stuff in UK, as I am located in UK too!
GF as head warden, well that helps just a bit dont it lol
Talk to most Chinese gardeners.. they SWEAR by it...I haven’t been doing the “tinytree” thing long enough to have any reference-able results.Look.. just google it. Not to say trust everything online but it can’t be complete crap if so much has been said and people on this forum follow it.. each to their own
LOVE that compact, spiky monstrosity of a Cratageus!!Next a couple of things I collected in September. A hawthorn, Crataegus Monogyna, which I thought was a small tree in it’s own right, but turned out to be a root sucker and so doesn’t have the amount of fine roots I’d have liked. I also got a Turkey oak, Quercus Cerris, which although small has some movement and nice branching already, rare round these parts. They’re both about 14” tall.View attachment 277733
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