is medusa clump a style? found a crab apple with about 10 little trunks.

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I lost one tree last year, and it was my favorite haw. im not exactly sure why, might have had something to do with a vacation auto water mishap, or 100 degree heat while on auto water, I think it might have been over watered.. but, about mid summer after putting on tons of spring growth, it hit a wall.. and never came back really. had green cambium after dormancy this year but never came back to life. not sure if it was a soil issue, heat issue, or the vacation issue, but I've moved hawthorn to my cautious list for the time being. This haw, is basically the same as that haw., old, same area, same type. figured id give it a year and reflect on the issue.

ive since noticed that harry harrington has mentioned several times, in various posts of his collected hawthorns on facebook , about protecting haws from the heat of mid summer, he specifically refers to it in facebook posts. its not in his species guide at all on his site. I've also noted a few other various citations of difficulty establishing collected haws around the net. asked harry directly about it, he said hmm nope just treat em normal, which seemed odd to me.

there is one other instance. I had a hunting property which all the sudden was being sold very soon on me, had a haw on it that I wanted. but lost the ability to collect it in spring. so in the middle of December, I wrangled it out of the ground and stuck it in my garden bed. It then proceeded to leaf out in spring and grow. it died that year in the middle of the summer. definitely many variables in each case, just saying. I know another collector from another bonsai forum, a brit, who collects beech and oak and other difficult species, he also has had trouble keeping hawthorne alive after collection. just sayin.
 
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This twin trunk bradford pear is growing wild... one suggestion I've had for it is to nix the larger, in this photo, right trunk all together and carve it back leaving a single trunk tree with a huge base. IMG_9665.JPG
 
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