Bnana
Chumono
This hornbeam had to be removed from a garden and that allowed me to collect it and try to make something out of it.
It has been collected end of December, not ideal but leaving it longer was no option.
I removed a large part of the roots, the taproot and lower sidetroots, and there are only horizontal roots on one side so that will be the front.
There was a shrub directly next to it so no roots developing on the other side but with this front there seems to be a nice start of a nebari.
For now I made a rather high cut and plan to let it grow for a year so that I can select a new leader lower down. For now the idea is to have a twin trunk, removing the smaller trunk (1 cm diameter).
I'm not sure where I'll chop, that depends on where it will develop. I draw possible cuts but those are at the same height so that is not ideal.
After I took the pictures I covered the roots.
I read a lot about this species and it seems to be a very suitable species, but I do not have any experience with them.
So any opinion or tip is welcome.
It has been collected end of December, not ideal but leaving it longer was no option.
I removed a large part of the roots, the taproot and lower sidetroots, and there are only horizontal roots on one side so that will be the front.
There was a shrub directly next to it so no roots developing on the other side but with this front there seems to be a nice start of a nebari.
For now I made a rather high cut and plan to let it grow for a year so that I can select a new leader lower down. For now the idea is to have a twin trunk, removing the smaller trunk (1 cm diameter).
I'm not sure where I'll chop, that depends on where it will develop. I draw possible cuts but those are at the same height so that is not ideal.
After I took the pictures I covered the roots.
I read a lot about this species and it seems to be a very suitable species, but I do not have any experience with them.
So any opinion or tip is welcome.