First styling:
both bottom branches got cranked around with rebar, and are held in place with guy wires.
I left extra foliage - I removed about half. It needs some!
thus cultivar was developed by Lone Pine nursery, thus the name. It’s a dwarf pine, lots of buds and short needles. I’ve owned thus one a couple years, and it had contracted a fungus, now cured, that had caused it be weak. Now healthy, it can tolerate a cutback and styling.
I “could” repot it now, but I’m choosing to wait until January. I’ll let it recover from the styling until then.
Boon and I moved the low branch 90 degrees using a long rebar as leverage. It was pointed directly towards the front. We moved it in stages over two days.
Assuming all goes well, I think I might be able to show it in two years.
both bottom branches got cranked around with rebar, and are held in place with guy wires.
I left extra foliage - I removed about half. It needs some!
thus cultivar was developed by Lone Pine nursery, thus the name. It’s a dwarf pine, lots of buds and short needles. I’ve owned thus one a couple years, and it had contracted a fungus, now cured, that had caused it be weak. Now healthy, it can tolerate a cutback and styling.
I “could” repot it now, but I’m choosing to wait until January. I’ll let it recover from the styling until then.
Boon and I moved the low branch 90 degrees using a long rebar as leverage. It was pointed directly towards the front. We moved it in stages over two days.
Assuming all goes well, I think I might be able to show it in two years.
