carpinus betulus

Hello! This weekend, taking advantage of the wonderful spring warmth, I went to dig up hornbeam, which I found as a potential material for this winter... I decided to take it all at once because of the place where it grew and the specificity of the soil from where it was taken. My plan is a high...

This is a European Hornbeam I found in a forest last Fall. Something is up with the trunk, any ideas? Its swelling and cracking in a ring

Got some Carpinus betulus for in the garden to screen of ugly wooden fencing. I bought 5 of them, but only needed 4 for in the ground (raised bed). I had build a grow box a while ago and thought this was a nice opportunity to see how well a young Carpinus would grow in a growbox with Terramol...

Hello All, Tree from BobbyLane, bought this season 03-07-2019. Big lump of a multi-trunk thing. Bobby has done all the work on this so far, cut trunks shorter and hard cut back on any growth. It was in a huge air pot originally, he has also repotted so Its just for me to look at for now...

In new pot

A hornbeam purchased from @BobbyLane in August 2018. Nice chunky trunk with movement, character, a good load of carving done by Bobby and good spread nebari to improve over time. DSC_0087 by Conor Dashwood, on Flickr DSC_0088 by Conor Dashwood, on Flickr DSC_0091 by Conor Dashwood, on Flickr...

Carpinus

Developped from 1 year old plant. Planted in the ground and groundlayer one year later. This is the second repot after that. It's basically a stick in a pot with a rootbase. I planned to groundgrow this one but I was afraid to lose the rootbase so I put it back in the box. If I want a tapering...

Hornbeam material

Hi folks I have another European Hornbeam project in progress, thought i'd share... kaizen have a few of these hornbeam stumps and funnily enough this was one of the cheaper ones, i found this piece the most interesting though and it gives some options, along with well developed primarys, i...