5yr native tree challenge LindaPat’s Ninebark nursery bush

[LindaPat]

 

[HorseloverFat]

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Nice!

These can make fantastic Bonsai!

They are used heavily, round these parts... cause they can be winter beasts!

Any specific “name” on this Physocarpus ?

 

[TinyArt]

Like the texture of the trunk, this will be nice to see develop

 

[LindaPat]

Yes, I’m always charmed by the nine barks, but an expert at my bonsai club told me these are too coarse to really Be bonsai. I defoliated and this is the new leaves in midsummer. Ran out of wire and this didn’t work. Will try again on straight sections in fall.

 

[HorseloverFat]

too “x” to really Be bonsai.

I think it behooves one to eliminate these styles of phrases from ones tool-belt.


I’ll bet, learning about WHEN to wire those coarse branches will allow you to approach them differently.. not on a standard schedule as i’d imagine. Then.. once set.. the member’s trees i’ve seen ‘round here appear to have developed pads.. USING that coarse twigginess... Pretty neat! I’ll take a few pictures next time i swing by that nursery.

I think you’ll produce a fine, miniaturized tree.

 

[LindaPat]

Very hopeful