hard pruning

Hi All, I have this Montpellier maple. Id like to get rid of the long branches and make the nice trunk into a bonsai (obviously). Im in the UK. Do i hard chop now before buds break, or later in the year before second flush. Ive had varying advice from non specliasts when asked. Ive also the...

I finally got around to do the initial work on this Kojo-no-mai cherry blossom I bought during the fall sale. The roots where a complete mess, and I had to spend 1.5 hours to make any sense of it. They were tangled like crazy, and many of them unfortunatly seemed pretty unhelathy due to the...

Someone in my neighbourhood had dug up a hedge of lingustrum/privets. The base is thick, and I definetly see potential if it survives some heavy pruning, which privets usually do. Plan is to remove all but two trunks in the spring, and create a double trunk styled tree. I will also prune these...

This old Hornbeam was collected a couple of years ago from the mountains and grew well from the previous owner. But what I don't like about it is the apex, it doesn't have any taper and it has a lot of scars . That's why I wanted to rerbuild the apex it this year. In the photo, I noted the...

Hi, I am new to this forum so please forgive me if it is inappropriate to post here. I have bought an "olive bonsai" online this october. It was nothing closer to how it looks like at website. But i kept it. It is very tall and weak. So i thought hard pruning could make it stronger. But I am...

I am pretty new to pines and would greatly appreciate some advice and help with a game plan for this tree. It is a grafted Miyajima, jwp supposedly 9-10 + yr out. I purchased it on ebay last spring. I potted into this pond basket right after I received it, as it was shipped without a pot. It had...