CWTurner
Omono
I collected this boxwood from my front walk in April 2015.
I trimmed a good bit of foliage off after potting it but it hasn't really thrived. I think that my poor dense soil might be the cause.
So today, I did a repot. It had a fair amount of healthy roots, but for two years growing in that pot, I feel it should have been more.
I flattened the bottom of the main roots, and injured the bark on the bottom and spread some rooting powder.
Here it is in its new pot with better soil.
And a close up of the major reverse taper, and some of the interesting deadwood and sort of a burl on the main trunk.
I figured that since I had messed with the roots, this would be a good time to do some carving because that really moves/shakes the tree.
The trunk has decent movement with that front, but I miss some of that side branch deadwood that is seen in the following shot.
Here it is with a future planting angle.
I intend to cut back that straight right branch when it backbuds near that backward growing leaf.
And I need to choose an apex and get it wired before the branches set, which they do pretty quickly on these.
Fingers crossed that it will grow better in the new soil (1/1/1 Lava/Pumice/8822.
CW
I trimmed a good bit of foliage off after potting it but it hasn't really thrived. I think that my poor dense soil might be the cause.
So today, I did a repot. It had a fair amount of healthy roots, but for two years growing in that pot, I feel it should have been more.
I flattened the bottom of the main roots, and injured the bark on the bottom and spread some rooting powder.
Here it is in its new pot with better soil.
And a close up of the major reverse taper, and some of the interesting deadwood and sort of a burl on the main trunk.
I figured that since I had messed with the roots, this would be a good time to do some carving because that really moves/shakes the tree.
The trunk has decent movement with that front, but I miss some of that side branch deadwood that is seen in the following shot.
Here it is with a future planting angle.
I intend to cut back that straight right branch when it backbuds near that backward growing leaf.
And I need to choose an apex and get it wired before the branches set, which they do pretty quickly on these.
Fingers crossed that it will grow better in the new soil (1/1/1 Lava/Pumice/8822.
CW
