Kingsville boxwood

[makarovnik]

I got to take a hour long ride to a bonsai nursery for my birthday today
I was going to buy a couple of of different trees a dwarf pomegranate, which would of needed a chop next year for taper, and a bird plum which was was already chopped but had a lot of growth. Instead I went with a boxwood. I did something I read from I think @Vance Wood and dig around the trunk and you met get a surprise. Here it is, it's a little rough but I like it.

This was the soil line

I'm thinking of removing that root on the left but I will wait until next year to see what the rest of the roots look like



I am going to be by there for a different reason tomorrow but I think I am going to stop again and look one more time
Maybe get one of those other trees I wanted

 

[sorce]

I did something I read from I think @Vance Wood and dig around the trunk and you met get a surprise. Here it is, it's a little rough but I like it.

Did you do this digging before...or after purchase?

I Only ask because we are supposed to know what we are buying before we buy it!

And...No Offense...but I would have left that there if Thats what I found.

No defined Nebari plane.
Real quick dirty reverse taper.

Forgive me...I don't want to burst any bubbles...
Rather....
Invite you to the Depot for the $25 3gl fatties I been digging thru.
(what did You pay? Optional)

The Way I See it....
Every 15 minutes looking for proper material equates to about 5 years of Development. Time well Spent!

And I been spending a lot of time!

I love it.
Love breaking it down more...

So here we go!

First.

The three main shapes.

Bunch a sticks...no.
Quick reverse taper...(maybe if correctable)
Little or No reverse taper... (maybe if Nebari dig down is pleasant.)

Yours seems a middle shape, but cut back.

When these are in seas...I peer into the first couple rows for visual...
And lean in and do a hand feel for the others.

I pull out all the maybes....Usually about 10 of 200.
And continue eliminating with the Nebari dig down.

Gotta be a good even plane at least 3/4 the way around. And definitely nice from the "front".

Sometimes....
The top is so good....
The Bottom is negotiable.
(box said To root easy)

This is the best top I've encountered.

Where the first split has no reverse Taper.
Rare!

Anyway....
I'm not here to say...
Haha...look what I Got!

I'm here so you come back and say....
Haha fu@ker...
I got a better one than YOU!

To dirty fingernails!

Sorce

 

[M. Frary]

I don't think it's a Kingsville to be truthful.
Their leaves are tiny and more pointy.
And they grow real slow. Like a quarter to half an inch per year.
And they are expensive.
I don't know how big that is from the pictures but large Kingsville boxwoods can run into the hundreds of dollars.

 

[makarovnik]

I was talking about what I saw between that mess. There was a lot of dead roots tangled on it. A lot came right off depending where I cut
I cleaned it up and only the actual tree is left. The branch on the right in the first pic is all dead wood.