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Imperial Masterpiece
Here's a thread on a dwarf boxwood I acquired from bnut member @JudyB in 2014.
Current photo: This was taken after doing some thinning. After letting this grow wild for a few years (see following post for the history), I've decided that I need to start opening up some areas so that some branch structure is visible. It's like a treasure hunt, pretty difficult to see through the dense foliage so I've been just opening up small areas and exploring to see where I can reveal some branches/twigs. One issue is that once an area is opened up, if it doesn't "work" it will take a year or two to fill back in - that's how slow this grows.
Some issues I'm working around - primary structural branches are kind of weirdly shaped and really can't be bent. I may need to rotate the front a bit as the subtrunks don't appear very attractive from this angle (but it is best for other reasons). Overall canopy is a bit even and probably too tall/pointed. Dead wood on left might be too long/straight.
That said, I do like working on this little thing. Funny, it was one of the trees I had buyer's remorse about when it arrived, but it has grown on me.
Current photo: This was taken after doing some thinning. After letting this grow wild for a few years (see following post for the history), I've decided that I need to start opening up some areas so that some branch structure is visible. It's like a treasure hunt, pretty difficult to see through the dense foliage so I've been just opening up small areas and exploring to see where I can reveal some branches/twigs. One issue is that once an area is opened up, if it doesn't "work" it will take a year or two to fill back in - that's how slow this grows.
Some issues I'm working around - primary structural branches are kind of weirdly shaped and really can't be bent. I may need to rotate the front a bit as the subtrunks don't appear very attractive from this angle (but it is best for other reasons). Overall canopy is a bit even and probably too tall/pointed. Dead wood on left might be too long/straight.
That said, I do like working on this little thing. Funny, it was one of the trees I had buyer's remorse about when it arrived, but it has grown on me.