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The Treedeemer
Yesterday a friend stopped by from the other side of the Netherlands. I used the opportunity to have a tree shipped from his region to my garden. This is the last of a series of trident maples imported from probably Korea by a trader in the Netherlands. Last year I bought one too. As bigger pieces are hard to get and can get costly, I accept the fact that a lot of work is needed, in exchange for a smaller part of my morgage.
As it is much milder on the Dutch coast than in my garden, the trident had already started pushing, where in my yard the tridents are just showing little red tips around the buds. So no time was wasted, and I reworked the roots, trimmed the shoots and repotted..
This year I will focus on establishing a new leader, let that shoot and in mid-spring I will work on the old cuts (Unless I find myself with nothing to do later this week). Guess it will take a few years to get a bit of extention in place, and the old cuts to close. During that period the nebari will probably develop a little too .
As it is much milder on the Dutch coast than in my garden, the trident had already started pushing, where in my yard the tridents are just showing little red tips around the buds. So no time was wasted, and I reworked the roots, trimmed the shoots and repotted..
This year I will focus on establishing a new leader, let that shoot and in mid-spring I will work on the old cuts (Unless I find myself with nothing to do later this week). Guess it will take a few years to get a bit of extention in place, and the old cuts to close. During that period the nebari will probably develop a little too .