Buxus (Boxwood), need help with style
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Poink88
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Nice matured tree you got there. Good find!
Please tell us what you liked about this and your vision...then maybe we can help you better. This plant can go many different ways so you have to narrow it down for us first.
Please update your profile location.
Nice matured tree you got there. Good find!
Please tell us what you liked about this and your vision...then maybe we can help you better. This plant can go many different ways so you have to narrow it down for us first.
k2bonsai
Seedling
I recommend watching this 4 part youtube video. Gave me a greater leg up for proper design of buxus, ie not creating pom poms.
http://youtu.be/ruO__jC3hwE
http://youtu.be/ruO__jC3hwE
Poink88
Imperial Masterpiece
Just to mention that I cannot chop the way he did in my area. Boxwood do not backbud here for some reason and chopping it w/o leaves is almost a guaranteed death sentence in my experience and other local friends.
I really wish I can treat them like that though.
Poink88
Imperial Masterpiece
Try this initial clean-up then post more pics later.
Basically clean it up and remove all things you do not need. Any place with tridents or chicken feet like...remove the middle one if possible. Find some movement and avoid long straight sections. Those need to be reduced drastically if they cannot be bent/wired anymore. Else, they will stick like sore thumb now and forever. Note that I do not cut things I need w/o leaves at end.
Sorry but this is the best I can do for you w/ the pics provided. Someone else may be able to help you better. It is also much more difficult to work from pics... there are lots of things you see that we can't and decisions may have to rely on those.
Good luck!
Basically clean it up and remove all things you do not need. Any place with tridents or chicken feet like...remove the middle one if possible. Find some movement and avoid long straight sections. Those need to be reduced drastically if they cannot be bent/wired anymore. Else, they will stick like sore thumb now and forever. Note that I do not cut things I need w/o leaves at end.
Sorry but this is the best I can do for you w/ the pics provided. Someone else may be able to help you better. It is also much more difficult to work from pics... there are lots of things you see that we can't and decisions may have to rely on those.
Good luck!
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Poink88
Imperial Masterpiece
Good job opening it up!
Depending on your final goal...you need to chase back some of the branches to make it look a bit more compact. Remember that it will continue growing outwards so factor that in to attain a future silhouette target ...not to attain now/today. I hope I am making sense.
Some branches still; have chicken feet and too long/straight. Address those now either by wiring or by chopping back. It is still a bit busy but that can be remedied easily later.
Remember, most of the time...you have to destroy it (your tree) first before you can re-build.
Good luck!
Depending on your final goal...you need to chase back some of the branches to make it look a bit more compact. Remember that it will continue growing outwards so factor that in to attain a future silhouette target ...not to attain now/today. I hope I am making sense.
Some branches still; have chicken feet and too long/straight. Address those now either by wiring or by chopping back. It is still a bit busy but that can be remedied easily later.
Remember, most of the time...you have to destroy it (your tree) first before you can re-build.
Good luck!
