long term

I recently purchased this Blue Atlas Cedar. It was buried in among a few other cedars. This one had the most movement in the trunk and very full branches with low growth. All of the grafts looked about the same so I went with this one for the other features. I am making this post for advice on...

Someone in my neighbourhood had dug up a hedge of lingustrum/privets. The base is thick, and I definetly see potential if it survives some heavy pruning, which privets usually do. Plan is to remove all but two trunks in the spring, and create a double trunk styled tree. I will also prune these...

Hi all, I’m looking for some tips on long term progression of red maple saplings. I harvested this sapling from a field last year and it’s overwintered wonderfully buried in this plastic pot. Because of the angle that it’s growing, I want to eventually show this as a shohin semicascade, but at...

Posted a prior thread here on a Honey Mesquite I purchased a few weeks ago at a nursery. I've been thinking about the other one just about every day since, so I bit the bullet yesterday and acquired this beauty: The tree has about a 3" base. Thoughts: - Beautiful movement. The trunk has that...

Posted a prior thread here on a Honey Mesquite I purchased a few weeks ago at a nursery. I've been thinking about the other one just about every day since, so I bit the bullet yesterday and acquired this beauty: The tree has about a 3" base. Thoughts: - Beautiful movement. The trunk has that...

Hey all, first thread here and wanted to show the progression I'll be going through with this Western Honey Mesquite (Prosopis Glandulosa var. Torreyana) 4/23/2023 This was the tree when I saw it a nursery a few weeks ago From this angle the trunk is about 3" however, both nebari and trunk...

I've been looking around at the Coast Live Oaks in my area and after seeing some of the stuff that @BrianBay9 and @Wulfskaar were doing I figured it was time to start some of my own. This will definitely be a long term project so come back in 15 years and we'll see what I've got 🤣 I collected...