About 4 months ago I stopped by this great nursery intending to allow myself to purchase one plant. I found an amazing Leucophyllum frutescens (aka Texas Ranger) that I just had to have, the trunk was just BEGGING for bonsai.
But then I stumbled across this Rosemary and well...you know how it goes.
This is the before and after:
The lower left pad did not make it. I live in San Diego and the sun is pretty intense here. That pad was an internal branch which didnt get much sun, and when I reduced the foliage and essentially exposed it I believe it was too much heat for too little leaf. But it still works, I kept the branch as kind of a dead wood.
Great plant though. I hope to back bud the lower right pad to build up its thickness.
When you get it out of its current pot, go at the root ball with a chopstick to knock away the soil and see what big roots are present. I wouldn't cut anything bigger than an 1/16".....more than that "could" (I'm guessing) be an issue. I had 1/8" root stubs that were dead from pruning. The small hair roots can be picked away as needed. Since your not removing big roots, pot size and style matters. Mine have always been in deep pot and so they will remain in one. If your trying to change to a shallow pot you can see if your roots will bend enough to lay in without breaking. I think its best to start with a young plant and keep it in one style of pot. My smaller tree gets root pruned every two years to keep the soil draining well and any outside roots from getting too large. It never skips a beat and never had any die back. This large one may continue to die back...time will tell.
They can throw their voice (as in ventriloquist) quite well. Go out at night and try to find one....you'll see or hear!!That tree frog can only change from white/grey to shades of green. No idea why but we discovered those here last Summer - sticky lil things for certain
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Grimmy
You would think it would be effected if the fine feeder roots were removed. Thanks or the insight.
That's looking fantastic! I had to put two of my potted ones back in the ground because they were slowly dying. It was in a pretty small pot. Like you, I'm going to stick with larger pots from now on. I have a few in the ground and one of them is really ready to be potted.
3"+, what are you feeding the beast?
