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Have you tried Casuarina?
The scars kinda look like the same pattern of wire scars. I would think if you do this "intentionally" that you would go out of your way to make the pattern irregular.View attachment 57119View attachment 57120
Re-working a Narrow-Leaf Buttonwood. These are awesome plants to work
with and they make the perfect pine substitute. Only problem, is that unlike
a normal Buttonwood, they have rather smooth bark, so I am purposely
scaring the bark to give the tree an older appearance.
The scars kinda look like the same pattern of wire scars. I would think if you do this "intentionally" that you would go out of your way to make the pattern irregular.
Yes, I have done precisely what you have suggested on quite a few trees...
This tree however, and a lot of tropicals work rather well by doing a pattern resembling
wire scars... once they have healed, you flip the pattern and go across, This is how
I and a lot of others who work with tropicals make a tree, or branch look old.
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Re-working a Narrow-Leaf Buttonwood. These are awesome plants to work
with and they make the perfect pine substitute. Only problem, is that unlike
a normal Buttonwood, they have rather smooth bark, so I am purposely
scaring the bark to give the tree an older appearance.
I am curious... Can you not grow Pines in your area? I mean I am sure species like JWP or Mugo would struggle and die with no real lengthy winters to speak of, but I know of people keeping JBP with success in SOUTH Florida... Like Ft Meyers/ Punta Gorda area... And you see two needle Pines growin Naturally there in the wild all over. I guess I am just asking because you mention these as being a "substitute for Pines"- well there is no substitute like the real thing! Why not go get yourself a nice JBP? Just curious...
I kind of would like to own a Buttonwood personally, but I don't have the space or sufficient set up to keep many tropicals alive through the winter in my house... I have two Bougies who struggle through the winter for me every year, get shocked when I move them outside, grow slow through the Spring (cool temps at night I guess...) then they tend to explode for me during the Summer. Makes it kind of hard to really train them for Bonsai though, as I have found the branches to be unreliable when it comes to lasting the winter... But I like the flowers, so I keep them around.