Kingsville Boxwoods

[coachspinks]

When I returned to Bonsai 5 years ago, one of my first "trees" was a small kingsville from Steve at Plant City. I have liked them since I had the honor of working on Father Paul's Kingsville at the Monastery in the 80's. The bigger one in the picture was only slightly larger than the small one when I purchased. The small one is a 5 year old cutting from another Kingsville I have. I am going to repot it and work on it soon. Once I do that I'll post a pic on this thread. Over the winter I purchased one of Steve's large kingsville's. It was repotted earlier this year. I will post a pic of it on this thread too. Feel free to post pics of your Kingsvilles and discuss them on this thread.

Edit: the larger one was cut back hard last year. It sent out 1" long shoots with big leaves.

 

[Hack Yeah!]

Got to be one of the best trees for bonsai, I got one from Steve in 2018. Worked it down in March of 2019.



Here's how it looks today.

 

[coachspinks]

What did you do with the parts you cut off? Cuttings, air layer or throw away?

 

[Hack Yeah!]

I've got two cuttings going on a big pot, they strike super easy

 

[coachspinks]

I've got two cuttings going on a big pot, they strike super easy

thanks, I have one with 3 pencil thick trunks that need to be cut off.

 

[Hack Yeah!]

These need transplant soon I guess.

 

[River's Edge]

Kingsville is one of my favourite small tree cultivars. This one has been under development for ten years. Strong little tree.

 

[Underdog]

I've a couple regular boxwood I've found to be the toughest trees in my garden. Love them. I also have a couple 30yr olds in the ground coming out soon to begin their journey. No experience with Kingsville specific as I read they aren't as cold hardy for my zone 6 winters. Is this correct? I'm trying to cull down the needy babies in my flock.

 

[Hack Yeah!]

Rodney Clemons has a sea of 50+ yo kingsville, if any one is serious about wanting this cultivar and willing to spend 4 figures seek him out for a beautiful plant that will be THE centerpiece or one of that will stand proud in your collection

 

[jimib]

I just picked one up on the FB auction page. It has has little bit of inverse taper but in my yard it’ll be fine. The other one..was thriving then got a case of blight that took out 95% of it. I cut all of it off except one branch..hoping it survives.

 

[Hack Yeah!]

@jimib i don't think you have a kingsville, examine the leafs between yours and the other pics in this thread, they do throw branches that revert, so maybe?

 

[jimib]

@jimib i don't think you have a kingsville, examine the leafs between yours and the other pics in this thread, they do throw branches that revert, so maybe?

The leaves are larger than the other one I had…but it was sold to me as a Kingsville. It’s def smaller than the landscape ones in my yard though. The other kingsville I had the leaves were tiny until it got blight, the new leaves are coming in much larger than the original leaves were. But you may be correct..

 

[Hack Yeah!]

Cool, you really need to examine your different leaf sizes and reduce the reversion stems to maintain the kingsville traits

 

[atlarsenal]

This one came from Steve at Plant City about 4 years ago.