Prunus Spinosa_1
Prunus Spinosa_1 Prunus spinosa Height: 18 cm till the top jin Diameter: 4,5 cm Training pot A sloe is one of my most favourite deciduous tree/bush. There are not many good quality blackthorns bonsai in the Czech Republic. First of all it is quite difficult to find a decent tree in the nature. And secondly, it is even more difficult to collect a plant with enough roots to keep it alive. The blackthorns grow in clumps with a "single" root system that starts from the mother plant. Quite often the plant you have selected doesn't have fine roots at all. There is only a kind of a root runner with no fine roots that is disappearing into the ground. The small blackthorn on the pic has a fairly nice twisted trunk with the first signs of aging bark. The trunk has a reversed taper unfortunately. I have tried to improve that by leaving there a sacrifice branch (the first one on the right ) and root thread grafting. The results of the thread graft are not