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A thread where we can share our trees, ideas, experiences, techniques, soils.....flowers.....fruit"........"link" to your own specific crabby thread.
So here goes........
First up.....Malus Fusca (Pacific Crabapple or Oregon Crabapple)... All three are yamadori whimps.....but I'll learn on these (as I know where the bigger ones are).....all three where found in wetlands where the Elk herds visit often.....this crabby is found within the temperate coniferous forests.....from Alaska to NW California at lower elevations. Flowers are white to pale pink and the fruit is small, red and round.
Right after collection these three went into each container with a mixture of my bonsai soil with lots of shredded sphagnum moss.........in winter they harden and are very stiff, so now with active growth they are more flexible so I wire them up or use guy lines to shape them, being careful not to twist off the outer bark.
First one is a raft style which may get reduced to a clump.
Second one..".whimpy" the whimp....and out of focus ...
Third one.....hoping for flowers next spring.
Cheers
Graham
So here goes........
First up.....Malus Fusca (Pacific Crabapple or Oregon Crabapple)... All three are yamadori whimps.....but I'll learn on these (as I know where the bigger ones are).....all three where found in wetlands where the Elk herds visit often.....this crabby is found within the temperate coniferous forests.....from Alaska to NW California at lower elevations. Flowers are white to pale pink and the fruit is small, red and round.
Right after collection these three went into each container with a mixture of my bonsai soil with lots of shredded sphagnum moss.........in winter they harden and are very stiff, so now with active growth they are more flexible so I wire them up or use guy lines to shape them, being careful not to twist off the outer bark.
First one is a raft style which may get reduced to a clump.
Second one..".whimpy" the whimp....and out of focus ...
Third one.....hoping for flowers next spring.
Cheers
Graham
I love to see more updates, I like crabs, I need one myself perhaps next year.
