Texas Sage

[BeepBeepBonsaiSheep]

Started on a walk and a neighbor that I got an Indian Hawthorn from (a few days before) saw me as he was tearing up more shrubs (11/9)

“Hey, man, this one’s massive! You want it?”

Took a look and it sure was a big boy. About 4’ tall. Said I’d grab it after my walk

As you’ll see from the pics, I took a lot of root off, and cut the whole thing down by 50%

Trunk is about 5” across in pic with my hand. Lots of branches with twists. Lots of options for this one

 

[BeepBeepBonsaiSheep]

Today cleaned it up by cutting off the smaller dead twigs. If/when it shocks, or drops the last bit of leaves, I’ll take off those branches too, so it’ll mostly be the massive branches

I really hope there’s not too much dieback. I left the large branches very long for that reason

I’ll reassess in spring and cut down any dieback if needed

 

[Esolin]

This is a nice tree! I hope it springs back well.