Got this Hydrangea today.

[vp999]

Just got this Hydrandea from a trade with a friend, I know they don’t make good bonsai but the killer trunk got me. Just gonna see what I can do with it. Any tips would be appreciated.

 

[Carol 83]

Just gonna see what I can do with it.

I can't wait to see. The ones I have in the landscaping have gigantic leaves.

 

[Potawatomi13]

Nice bottom end.

 

[LittleDingus]

I can't wait to see. The ones I have in the landscaping have gigantic leaves.

The new house has a number of old and declining hydrangea trees. One of them has a large branch of witches booms of tiny leaves. The entire tree, along with a few others, are in decline and would have been removed last year except the witches broom growth entertains me and I have too much else to do.

The mutated branch didn't flower

 

[Srt8madness]

Well, a lot of Bonsai are shown without foliage. So if you could get some ramification, wa-la

 

[rockm]

Don't know who told you hydrangea don't make good bonsai. Climbing hydrangea have been used for some time.

Climbing Hydrangea—62 Years From Cutting

It’s not often we get to meet the originator of a bonsai started 62 years ago. From a tiny cutting. A few months back I had the honor of meeting such a person, Leroy Goodwin, from Portland, Oregon.…

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Hydrangea petiolaris -Climbing Hydrangea Bonsai

Hydrangea petiolaris -Climbing Hydrangea Bonsai can make really great Bonsai if you find a nice trunked one. I have seen a small in a Bonsai nursery that was re

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A Summer Bonsai Display

In May 2014 I was picking up Pro-Mix at a feed store and looked around in their nursery yard. I was not looking for anything in particular, just looking, and my eye was caught by a couple of new hy…

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[rockm]

Hydrangea Bonsai from 1999

My Neighbour, Joan, is forever moving things around in her garden....very convenient for her to have a Nursery and such nice guys, hihihihihi, next door. When

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[GarethS]

Its been almost a year I'd love to see how this tree is going, I have a Hydrangea in my yard I want to bonsai too.

 

[vp999]

Its been almost a year I'd love to see how this tree is going, I have a Hydrangea in my yard I want to bonsai too.

Tree is doing well but didn't flowered for me at all this year. It grew very fast in the summer so I had to keep trimming back.

 

[GarethS]

Tree is doing well but didn't flowered for me at all this year. It grew very fast in the summer so I had to keep trimming back.

Glad to hear it’s doing well. Hopefully you get some good flowers next season.