European hornbeam # 3245

-
Just kidding.  Showing lack of respect for a famous bonsai amateur.   A shame on my old bald head...

The true fact is that looking at the weather fcast for this week I have made a quick conclusion:
"The spring is just behind the corner - lets start with the first items from  my project list for this season.  Banzai."

Root pruning

Trying to reduce the size of a root ball with the main focus on reduction of the taproot and other main nowadays useless structural roots to get more space for hard working fine roots...


Hornbeam, Yamadori, Pruning,



Projects for this year

1.  Still need to work on a better transition between the "old and new" section.  I think I will let the current leader to have another full season of an unrestricted growth.  Once I am happy with the transition I will replace the current leader with the small side branch ( labeled NEW LEADER )

2. Need to produce some additional branches on the  left and back side of the tree.   The first thread grafted branch - first one  on the front side - looks OK 

3. Add some surface roots (see  Red circles ) and probably some more ones.  Unless the Nature will do the work for me....  Doubt it.







Now I need to get some seedlings.   Hope to manage it later this week.








Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Prunus mahaleb_Airlayered

-
Image
  Stupid or Greedy?   Well, why not both... For a good number of years I am planning to reduce the number of my trees.   And yes, some of them have gone, just to be fair with me.   Few of them left for free to my brothers in arms - bonsai enthusiasts and some of them via the European bonsai auction to bargain hunters. Sounds good, doesn't it? But at the same time I have started few projects ( seedlings cutting_Pinus nigra, Taxus cuspidata and Pinus parviflora_Zuisho cuttings, bought some interesting varieties of satsuki...   So at the end there is more leaves/needles than before.   And  NOT enough of that - I was about to give away a little mahaleb that was a honorable member of the Downsize club.  On the D day I have taken it from the shelf with the plan to let it go to some new place with more attentive hands.    I know this is the moment I should close my eyes and to armour my heart...  What do you think?   Neither of that was the case.   I have started to look on the tree from
Read more

Prunus mahaleb_Zorro

-
Image
 The first few days of the new year are a bit lazy. So why not to take the advantage of it and share some other trees? The mahaleb Zorro is one of my largest trees.  Well, better to say heaviest ones.  It is not very large, in fact it is just about 50 cm in height and about 70 cm in width.  But the trunk is quite massive and the pot needs to be quite large to accomodate the long surface root.   The shape  is not very typical for deciduous tree but I do like it that way.  And that counts...   Still long way to go...   The "new part" clashes with the old one - just looking like a baby's arse.  Not to mention  a better taper and finer ramification... Hope to find some time later on to repot it and while there to change the planting angle. The left side is right now planted too deep. Height: 50 cm Width:  70 cm Pot: China  
Read more