practicing
Seedling
This yew is my first attempt at collecting rather than buy nursery/online stock. It was growing on a basement patio, and was offered free to anyone who would come dig it out.
It took me about an hour, but I managed to get it out. However, in doing so, I discovered that most of the foliage was way down very long branches. I've heard yews are pretty good at backbudding, so I hacked most of these branches back to the first existing backbud, and this was the result:
For scale, it's about 5 feet across right now. I know I should let it recover for the next year, and hopefully by then any backbudding will make things clearer, but for now, I want to know if people see much potential here? I can imagine trying to do some dramatic bending with the long main trunk to make it more compact, or simply chopping that off and hoping to get growth closer to the center of the tree. Other thoughts?
It took me about an hour, but I managed to get it out. However, in doing so, I discovered that most of the foliage was way down very long branches. I've heard yews are pretty good at backbudding, so I hacked most of these branches back to the first existing backbud, and this was the result:
For scale, it's about 5 feet across right now. I know I should let it recover for the next year, and hopefully by then any backbudding will make things clearer, but for now, I want to know if people see much potential here? I can imagine trying to do some dramatic bending with the long main trunk to make it more compact, or simply chopping that off and hoping to get growth closer to the center of the tree. Other thoughts?
