Weeping Boxwood?

Has anyone tried the "unraveled weeping boxwood"? It takes on the weeping form because the green branches are pretty flimsy, but they harden very stiff. It seems very easy to train. I bought one via the internets and I got 2 plants in one pot so I had to cut the roots apart. I lost a lot of roots so I trimmed a lot of branches. Day 2 they both seem happy.

I stuck some of the cuttings back in one pot to see if they'd root.

PherPhace said:

"unraveled weeping boxwood

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Is this a style, or is that what the pot said?

I had a boxwood get unraveled on me once, it started weeping, so I killed it!
Lol! That's my Ulmuspeaking!

Sorce

Haha. Nice. I bought it from a nursery. It's a Buxus Sempervirens 'Unraveled'. It's growth pattern looks very different from the common boxwood

Untrimmed it looks like this:

PherPhace said:

Untrimmed it looks like this:
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Wow! I have never seen that before?

It looks like very interesting material to work with.
I got some cutting of regular box to root. Killed them too tho!

If it were mine, I'd be thinking about using those bottom two trunks as my final design. Leave the top on for now to keep giving you trunk, but keep it from shading the more important bottom. And if the top want to run, and its winning, cut it back some.

You see how the top has 3 branches kinda killing it? Just keep that from happening on the bottom.
To do this, I determine what I will keep, usually only in the first inch or so, and remove one of the opposing buds, keeping buds that are facing where you want them.
Since everything past 1-2 inches is gonna come off, leave them grow ugly for strength.

It's gonna be a long path. Travel it!

Sorce

Wow cool.

That seems a little short, but I'm new to this. I was thinking more of a canopy/umbrella style. I was gonna go a lil taller so there would be more room to weep down

Here's my weeping boxwood. I just got it two years ago and that last year for my bonsai buddies came over to help me by looking at my trees and when I said to him I wasn't quite sure how to prune this one, I turned around and he was chopping away at it!! Noooo! So now it looks like this. My question is is how did you get the branches to hang down to weep? Too fragile to hang down with something tied to it I think. But I don't want to let just keep growing cuz I'm afraid it's going to kill off the bottom with the lack of sun. Do you style it so that the umbrellas hanging down or staggered so they don't block out the light below them? Any help I can get from you guys to be greatly appreciated. I'm only been in bonsai 3 years, and I'm not finding much on the internet for a weeping boxwood. Boxwood. Oh I got mine from another member, it didn't look much better than this when I got it.