Dav4
Drop Branch Murphy
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Well, sort of . This is a tree I picked up on a landscape nursery crawl 5-6 years ago. It was basically a bush, 2' by 2', planted in a 10 gal can. I didn't really have a solid plan for it, so I started reducing the foliage and the rootball to make it more compact. Then, one thing or another happened...I think I killed 2 of my favorite trees...and I stopped really caring for it. For 2-3 years, it sat neglected, no fertilizer, sporadic water, no pruning to speak of. One spring maybe 3 years ago, the foliage was a sickly yellow and the tree had absolutely no new spring growth at all. I asummed that it was going to die, but of course, that was when I started to take care of it again. It seems to have recovered quite well. Anyway, it has undergone loads of pruning/wiring over the last year and was placed in a bonsai pot this spring. Next spring will be carving time, and I'll be doing alot of pinching to encourage the canopy to fill out. I included a pic of the front slightly rotated to the left as a possible new front. Please pardon the weeds. Advice, criticism, and words of praise are all welcome. The tree is 12" tall and has a 4.5" spread at the nebari. Thanks,
Dave
Dave