The Tree Thread

[badatusernames]

Korean hornbeam - I cut this back pretty good and now 100% understand what @MACH5 told me on a consultation that it may need and even harder cutback, but I’m not sure I want to mess with it til it’s fully hardened off. There are some thick branches in particular that need to be cut back or off entirely, I think, and the canopy could use controlling particularly in the back. I’m not convinced I picked the right apex either, but I’m close and what I would replace it with has no ramification at this time.

im thinking of these ideas as a “next step” after it flushes out, and assuming that since hornbeam grow slowly I’m not introducing unfixable errors by not doing it now. I imagine seeing it leafed out will help, but open to suggestion if I’m thinking about it wrong.

 

[badatusernames]

I also put this ume in an unglazed pot. I kept going back and forth, but the base is already massive, it was already in terracotta, and the unglazed will allow for more oxygen transfer. So I THINK I’m not shooting my self in the foot too hard given how much more work and growth needs to occur.

bet you a buck photo #2 becomes the front and I just have to live with this. I was thinking with time and gentle wire work I might be able to shift the growth on the left though…. We’ll see.

 

[badatusernames]

Quince seems happy

wire has just started to set, took it off the ramification. Still dialing in how much bite you want so we’ll see how much bounce back there is. I figure I can always re-wire a tree, but I can’t un-scar it.

starting to feel I went small on the pot too. Still not fertilizing and internodes seem reasonable.

 

[Housguy]

Eastern winged elm pushing new growth

 

[jaco94]

Carpinus betulus
Very common tree in the surrounding forests

 

[SantaFeBonsai]

Pomegranate

 

[BonsaiDTLA]

Eastern winged elm pushing new growth
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I remember seeing this tree in person -- have always liked it a lot!

Deshojo

 

[Dragon60]

My maple tree.

 

[Fidur]

One of my junipers (you can watch its progression here )

 

[Hartinez]

Nursery RMJ

 

[Paulpash]

Crabapple. I love this stage with the fresh green leaves and the flower buds waiting to burst. I'm pretty pleased with tree now, after more than a decade of rebuilding the trunk and branches where it starts to twist. I just fancied a twisty leaning style tree.

 

[TomB]

Nice tree. I really like the buds-just-about-to-open stage as well, where the colour is strongest. This one is a couple of weeks further ahead.

 

[PonderingSage:]

I got 2 hand me down mugo pines from an aging club member culling his project trees.
I’m Pretty pumped

 

[erich_raudebaugh]

Japanese quince

 

[Paulpash]

Larch on rock and some pics of its development.

 

[Hartinez]

Larch on rock and some pics of its development. View attachment 429321View attachment 429322View attachment 429323View attachment 429324View attachment 429327

Man. @Paulpash you have got such excellent trees. So we’ll developed.

3 leaf sumac. Starting second year, first year in a pot.

 

[Paulpash]

Man. @Paulpash you have got such excellent trees. So we’ll developed.

3 leaf sumac. Starting second year, first year in a pot.
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Thanks for the kind words. A chunky Hawthorn in "root generation" phase, planted low in a pond basket and packed with moss and stuff to shade the moss. This will (hopefully) be a funky tree in a few seasons with an extended lower branch. It's in a 24cm square pond basket for scale.

 

[SniffingKrylon]

After what feels like an eternity of not posting I’m back. I guess having a kid throws a wrench in to the spokes of the time we thought we had. Most of my trees suffered greatly since I’ve been off, I don’t know if it was the move or something the park workers sprayed to kill weeds but my trees all went downhill except for a few. Finally had some time in the yard and cut back this ficus that had grown too much. Looking forward to posting more often again as I regain the balance of fatherhood, work and play.

 

[AboveBeyond]

Kiyohime Japanese maple field grown for 8 years finally put into a training container. The root flare is about 6 inches wide.

 

[SantaFeBonsai]

Western Juniper