euonymus japinica

Marie1uk said:

Style in Spring before bud burst - it back buds v well.... Here's mine - I call him 'The Bear'. Remove 3 knuckle stems throughout the season - it has a tendency to do this. Tall / large trees are best suited due to leaf size. As you can see it has hard wood that takes to carving well. I desperately want a back branch to wrap round and frame the deadwood - it will take several years to drop one down from the back.
Here's a before pic of wiring the foliage pads out - this had just been carved in Winter

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milehigh_7 said:

Love this! I will try to get a pic of mine that I literally yanked out of the ground about a month ago.

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defra said:

Realy do like the foliage some more color on the bench !
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defra said:

@Marie1uk
Did you ever fully defoliated the bear?

This one grew nicely this season but with all the leaves its hard to see the branch structure and hard to see how to prune or wire the branches so i was thinking of defoliation next season

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Tieball said:

Defoliate an Euonymus? ...if that's the tree you're talking about. In my growing area the Euonymus only puts out one flush of growth per season/year. Well....I did defoliate my tree a few years ago....I thought it would develop more branching. Smart move...Go me! Hmmmm....didn't happen. I spent the rest of the year caring for a "winter image" no-leaf tree. No growth at all. But...after winter (the tree just winters outside in the cold snow and wind) spring arrived and those buds cared for the last season burst into new growth. Lesson learned....one growth cycle per year. Perhaps it is different in your climate.

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defra said:

@Marie1uk
Did you ever fully defoliated the bear?

This one grew nicely this season but with all the leaves its hard to see the branch structure and hard to see how to prune or wire the branches so i was thinking of defoliation next season

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defra said:

It is an evergreen variety so dont know if it works exactly the same

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Paulpash said:

I have another Euonymus too. Hope you don't mind if I share?

Tree as it is now
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Trunk close up. Great snake like bark.
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Carving I did
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The raw material. As you can see it was initially variegated but it's completely reverted now to just plain green.
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Initial carving. You can see some stems now unvariegated - this pattern it has kept ever since. All variegated leaves have now disappeared.
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I have a few other pics but the upload keeps failing

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