Grovic
Mame
I found this bush on my way home yesterday, it was in very bad shape, whoever dug it up didn't care to save the roots. I think it is a boxwood, although I don't know which variety.
Roadkill, is it a boxwood?
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ponderingsage
Yamadori
Looks like one to me. Were the roots dried out?
Grovic
Mame
I decided to cut it hard and just leave some branches with green on it as a lifeline, I'm not sure if it will survive as it was drying out when I found it, on the positive side, there was some moist soil packed up below the trunk, it even had some earthworms crawling out of it. It has a nice base, but if you look at it from the side it has a pretty nasty reverse taper. I also pruned the roots trying to remove as much as the down-growing ones, the wood is tough on this one!
Grovic
Mame
The bark was scraped at the base from when they dug it up, but the piece was still attached to the tree, so I applied a bandage in the hopes that it will heal. Here it is in its new pot:
Grovic
Mame
Yeah, it only had some moist soil packed up below the base, so I'm hoping it will survive
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
It oughtta live.
I found a bone dry one once...still have it...it and another, with only millimeters of connecting live vein tissue, are my 2 best growing boxes.
Go figure.
Sorce
I found a bone dry one once...still have it...it and another, with only millimeters of connecting live vein tissue, are my 2 best growing boxes.
Go figure.
Sorce
Grovic
Mame
So there's hope, thank you for that! My right hand's fingers are all blistered from the shears,
this is some really dense wood.
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Like....what's left?
Or the base base?
Seems you have growth in decent spots now.
We'll see I guess....I reckon it depends on how much energy it had before spending it trying to relive.
Sorce
Grovic
Mame
Turns out that some of the foliage that seemed to be healthy was blistered and damaged on the bottom side of the leaves, a quick google search seems to point to boxwood leaf miners, maybe that's the reason they got rid of it on the first place. I removed all the foliage that wasn't completely clean of any marks, poor thing was left with just a couple small branches and a few leaves. Survival chances are getting narrower for this one.
