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| March 2015 |
This
small tree is one of my many hornbeams. It was collected on yamadori
trip in March 2012. I remember was actually looking for some other
species that spring, since my collection of hornbeams was big enough already.
But I found this little tree and it was too good to be left in forest
in my opinion.
Hornbeams
are naturally creating nice nebari but this one has very good one. It
is not well visible yet but you will see its beauty in further posts,
maybe it will be clear after next repoting into ceramic pot. It could
happen next spring, depending on this season.
Tree has
also very good taper and unusual movement of the trunk, it almost
look artificial like from nursery.
I know majority of the people will not like thin secondary trunk. And I will bet bottom dollar I get recommendations to remove it. But it will stay where it is. :)
Hornbeam
was potted into mix of zeolite and rough peat, with some Osmocote
granules added. Since first day it get a lot of feed and water and
was sitting on sunny place in my garden. First season was fine, new
branch structure was created.
Unfortunately
after first winter large part of trunk dried out. You can see in on
one of the detail pictures. This is something what happens to
hornbeam quite usually. In case spot is large like on this tree it
can be big problem. It is part of bonsai life and future design must
be adapted to current situation of the tree. I can see two options
here. I will try to reopen callus around dead part of the trunk and
hope it will callus over, which is highly unlikely but worth a try.
Little horticultural experiment if you like. If this fails whole dead
part will be carved and connected with top trunk chop. We will see
how it will play out.
You can
see only one picture in leaves, it is pretty obvious there is not a
lot see on such tree in summer yet. Recently I did some editing and
wiring of it and you can see the result. Position of tree will be slightly changed in few weeks, I will tilt the tree a bit.
Wires
will be left there till late spring and after defoliation it will go
off. You will find update here.
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| I use cut paste rarely, but I will give it a try here. |
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| Nebari, looks impresive, hmm? |
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| Aerial |
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