The Tree Thread

[Paulpash]

A Yew in development, grown in the ground for probably 20 years - I'm terrible at keeping track of specific dates and history. It's had 2 or 3 seasons since it was dug up. Below shows a few steps in its evolution up til now.

 

[badatusernames]

Partway through resetting and expanding wiring I did with my mentor Zuma earlier this year. Tbh I think I got a little antsy taking the wire off, I hear ficus bounce back a lot but I have a better idea now of how much wire can bite before it’s problematic

 

[Moridin]

Back home taking pics on my crappy bakers rack

 

[badatusernames]

Plucked some old needles and removed some wire that was biting in. This is nice and strong for a repot next year. I’d be curious to know if folks thought an unglazed bonsai container would be appropriate at this point, in part in order to control the strength of its growth, or if you would put it in a larger grow pot and refine it further. It was shaped this year and only partly decandled, rather early on in the season. It was also fertilized perhaps aggressively. Quite healthy though!

Always open to feedback!

 

[Sno]

Oak

 

[Sno]

Larch

 

[Sno]

Elm

 

[Sno]

Berberis

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Stewartia. Looking forward to seeing some progress in the branching of this one over the winter.

 

[Jeremy]

Arrived home from work after 2 weeks to find this Willow Leaf decided to shed all its leaves for the beginning of Spring. Nice colours in the sun, I started this tree from a cutting a few years back.

 

[Tycoss]

Amelancier in development

 

[Benjofen]

Oak
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Corkbark? Picked one of those up a few months ago, feel like it has great long term potential and I really love the pics I've seen of Oak bonsai but I feel like it's not used that often for whatever reason.

 

[Benjofen]

Berberis
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How is this species for bonsai? I've been curious about them for sentimental reasons if nothing else. The street I grew up on was Barberry Drive.

 

[TN_Jim]

rootbound wild roadside collected privet initially thrown in random pot…would rather burn than to ever let flower (birds), pretty sure illegal or discouraged to sell commercial nursery trade in my region…this decimates native plants and the broad ecology of associated species en masse…

 

[Forsoothe!]

Barberry are problematic because the have very skinny twigs that shear well for hedges, and they grow well if left to just continue to grow out into continuous long canes. But the tiny twigs they we value as ramification are in themselves short lived and need to be continuously replaced or the plants just drop dead. You can't just get them to a nice canopy and just keep trimming the leaders back to a couple leaves and expect them to grow from the base (axil) of the leaves left on the stem, maintaining a canopy. You would have to shear the whole thing back to bigger wood and re-grow a new canopy. Or, alternatively cut back every other leafing twig to the source, often. The trick is to do so before it looks in need of either.

 

[TN_Jim]

Barberry are problematic because the have very skinny twigs that shear well for hedges, and they grow well if left to just continue to grow out into continuous long canes. But the tiny twigs they we value as ramification are in themselves short lived and need to be continuously replaced or the plants just drop dead. You can't just get them to a nice canopy and just keep trimming the leaders back to a couple leaves and expect them to grow from the base (axil) of the leaves left on the stem, maintaining a canopy. You would have to shear the whole thing back to bigger wood and re-grow a new canopy. Or, alternatively cut back every other leafing twig to the source, often. The trick is to do so before it looks in need of either.

@Forsoothe!, I added a tree for you here

 

[TN_Jim]

Beech, Parsons

 

[Forsoothe!]

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I don't get it?

 

[Hartinez]

How is this species for bonsai? I've been curious about them for sentimental reasons if nothing else. The street I grew up on was Barberry Drive.

Hey there! Not to be the tree thread police, but if you read the original post, your supposed to add a pic of your trees(in any stage), to any comments you post to this thread. FYI

@TN_Jim , forsoothe knows, he’s just being forsoothe.

 

[Dragon60]

So technically Benjofen owes two tree pics. Here's an evergreen Viburnum.