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Hi there !
Recently i bought this taxus baccata so ill start a thread about it for discussion and documentation.
First of all this is nursery grown material intended for landscape so it has some flaws.
Ill start with the cons.
Its round shaped and more like a broom style the "multiple trunks" split high above the root base and not ideal since its a conifer.
It has slightly inversed taper and all the growth is on the end of long slim branches.
Pros:
It has realy fine small foliage compared to other yews i have (this drew my attention to take a closer look at it).
It was 15€ so prety cheap
Thats not realy much isnt it and you could wonder why buy such uninteresting material?
Well for one i can take cuttings or layer off some parts to propagate and grow out in the ground for a few years.
styling wise either go for a shohin Size tree or use one of the cons as advantage and style it like a naturalistic style tree like the ancient yews you see in the uk.
Or chop it down put it in the ground for few years so for me i see a future.
For now all i did was inspect the roots even tough october its full of white still actively growing roots but no obveous sign of were the root base starts, seccond i removed all the dead twigs took out one straight unneeded branch and since its Just been hedge pruned into a ball shape most branches had clusters of multiple branches at the end so reduced all of them to two.
its opened up now and in spring either it goes in the ground or ill repot it and search for the rootbase and let it grow and see the year after what way to go.
My question now is to instead just simply press the like button to lets have a discussion to what you see and think off seeing this type of material share ideas or examples.
Before doing anything
Roots
Obveous straight branch wich Will never be used in any design cut off
After cleaning it up
Recently i bought this taxus baccata so ill start a thread about it for discussion and documentation.
First of all this is nursery grown material intended for landscape so it has some flaws.
Ill start with the cons.
Its round shaped and more like a broom style the "multiple trunks" split high above the root base and not ideal since its a conifer.
It has slightly inversed taper and all the growth is on the end of long slim branches.
Pros:
It has realy fine small foliage compared to other yews i have (this drew my attention to take a closer look at it).
It was 15€ so prety cheap
Thats not realy much isnt it and you could wonder why buy such uninteresting material?
Well for one i can take cuttings or layer off some parts to propagate and grow out in the ground for a few years.
styling wise either go for a shohin Size tree or use one of the cons as advantage and style it like a naturalistic style tree like the ancient yews you see in the uk.
Or chop it down put it in the ground for few years so for me i see a future.
For now all i did was inspect the roots even tough october its full of white still actively growing roots but no obveous sign of were the root base starts, seccond i removed all the dead twigs took out one straight unneeded branch and since its Just been hedge pruned into a ball shape most branches had clusters of multiple branches at the end so reduced all of them to two.
its opened up now and in spring either it goes in the ground or ill repot it and search for the rootbase and let it grow and see the year after what way to go.
My question now is to instead just simply press the like button to lets have a discussion to what you see and think off seeing this type of material share ideas or examples.
Before doing anything
Roots
Obveous straight branch wich Will never be used in any design cut off
After cleaning it up
