grouper52
Masterpiece
I've never seen a boxwood cascade, so when I saw this guy yearning to express himself in that way I thought I would offer to help out.
The original nursery stock photo is lost to posterity apparently, but this was just some big uber-bushy thing destined to a dull life in a hedge somewhere. It was, however, leaning over a bit, showing off some nice little novice attempts at nebari. I could have just gone forward with yet another box, but the thought of leaning it over a bit further, killing and carving the majority of it, and thereby making this into an interesting cascade just screamed out at me, and I went forward. Drastic root pruning and hard pruning of the main trunk, with initial wiring of the rest into a crown and a two-branched cascade, and here it is at the moment.
Enjoy.
The original nursery stock photo is lost to posterity apparently, but this was just some big uber-bushy thing destined to a dull life in a hedge somewhere. It was, however, leaning over a bit, showing off some nice little novice attempts at nebari. I could have just gone forward with yet another box, but the thought of leaning it over a bit further, killing and carving the majority of it, and thereby making this into an interesting cascade just screamed out at me, and I went forward. Drastic root pruning and hard pruning of the main trunk, with initial wiring of the rest into a crown and a two-branched cascade, and here it is at the moment.
Enjoy.