ABCarve
Masterpiece
Always enjoy seeing this tree Brian. I’ve never had a fungus problem on mine. Were you doing it prophylatically?
Collected Hawthorn History
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Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
Mine has cedar-apple rust, never really bad, but enough to be annoying.
luvinthemountains
Chumono
I didn't expect to like it as much as I do in leaf. I love the balance, and how the subtrunks peek out just enough through the leaves.
atlarsenal
Omono
I’m betting you have got at least 1000 
from pics of this tree in this thread alone! 
from pics of this tree in this thread alone! 
Woocash
Omono
Love this tree. @Brian Van Fleet have you ever thought of darkening the deadwood to blend in a bit more? Hawthorns over here have an almost nutty brown deadwood naturally. I can’t help thinking it may suit well.
RH-W
Yamadori
Awesome work. Beautiful tree. Seeing the progress over time is very inspiring. One of these years I'm going to get a Hawthorne.
Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
Yeah, it’s a little too white right now, especially when photographed with a flash.
I probably need to let it go natural and treat it with a wood preserver instead of LS. Unchecked it tends to go black and rot.
leatherback
The Treedeemer
Hm. Not sure.
I think I like it better next year.
Great tree!
I think I like it better next year.
Great tree!
just.wing.it
Deadwood Head
Its looking really nice. Came a long way since the 1999 pics.
Epic thread.
Epic thread.
Woocash
Omono
Interesting. C monogyna deadwood seems to last forever in a natural environment. Is C spathulata quite a naturally degradable tree then or is it in the bonsai or environment more so?
Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
In nature, they don’t display a lot of deadwood. They’re slow-growing trees, so the wood is pretty dense. The rot I was referring to is more a fissuring or cracking in the exposed deadwood. I guess it’s rather persistent, considering I last carved that chop around 15 years ago.
Woocash
Omono
Ha quite right! Either way, this thread is an education and it looks killer in that pot.In nature, they don’t display a lot of deadwood. They’re slow-growing trees, so the wood is pretty dense. The rot I was referring to is more a fissuring or cracking in the exposed deadwood. I guess it’s rather persistent, considering I last carved that chop around 15 years ago.
Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
Night shot after it’s first pruning of the year.
just.wing.it
Deadwood Head
The proportions are great. It looks very natural to me. Awesome tree!
Corrado
Mame
is it flowering and setting fruit at all?
Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
Nope. It was blooming when I sawed it down in 1999, and it hasn’t bloomed since.
leatherback
The Treedeemer
Do you know this page?
Getting Bonsai Hawthorns to flower
THE MOON FLOWER Crataegus monogyna is a small tree native to the U.K, and parts of Europe, that has come to be known by many names. Hawthorn, May tree, quickthorn, whitethorn, haegthorn, hedgethorn, bread-and-cheese tree and, most evocative of all Moon flower. The tree is steeped in folklore...
www.kaizenbonsai.com
I have a hawthorn that has flowered only the first year I had it. I started doing this 2 (?) years ago. This year I have 3 branches with flower buds. Not saying this certainly works, but I am happy so far!
Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
Thanks, I had not seen that article. It’s pretty close to how I treat this one, and mine even has fruiting Spurs like the article shows...they just never do anything.Do you know this page?
Getting Bonsai Hawthorns to flower
THE MOON FLOWER Crataegus monogyna is a small tree native to the U.K, and parts of Europe, that has come to be known by many names. Hawthorn, May tree, quickthorn, whitethorn, haegthorn, hedgethorn, bread-and-cheese tree and, most evocative of all Moon flower. The tree is steeped in folklore...
I have a hawthorn that has flowered only the first year I had it. I started doing this 2 (?) years ago. This year I have 3 branches with flower buds. Not saying this certainly works, but I am happy so far!
The largest difference I see is that I repot mine frequently, but I don’t think I could get 3 years out of a repot, Graham talks about letting them go 5-6. This one grows roots 6’ long in a year.
leatherback
The Treedeemer
I tried
ABCarve
Masterpiece
It was 10 years before mine started flowering again. Once it started, each consecutive year it put more and more on. I prune the vegetative shoots when the flowers are fully opened. I should probably wait longer but don’t want to waste the photo opportunity. Lately it’s requiring me to prune off flowering spurs to maintain the silhouette. This tree is the least time consuming in the collection and gives me the most enjoyment.
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