Collected Buttonwood from Florida

[Michael_Marinelli]

Hi all!

Just wanted to send some pics of a buttonwood I found. Styling suggestions/virts always welcome! The tree is budding everywhere, I’m really excited to see where it goes.

 

[penumbra]

I think you have done all that you can at this point. Let it grow out a year or better two years and the bonsai within will start to reveal itself. Don't overthink it now.

 

[Michael_Marinelli]

Heres an update on some of the new growth. It’s growing extremely fast, some branches are already about a centimeter thick.

 

[OTown]

I have a BW that was collected in 2019. It was left to grow with some light pruning until 2021. In 21 it was fully defoliated, styled, and repoted with good success.

If I had your tree, I would follow the same process.

BTW, I'm on the line between 9b and 10a in FL.