euonymus japinica

[milehigh_7]

Style in Spring before bud burst - it back buds v well.... Here's mine - I call him 'The Bear'. Remove 3 knuckle stems throughout the season - it has a tendency to do this. Tall / large trees are best suited due to leaf size. As you can see it has hard wood that takes to carving well. I desperately want a back branch to wrap round and frame the deadwood - it will take several years to drop one down from the back.
Here's a before pic of wiring the foliage pads out - this had just been carved in Winter

Love this! I will try to get a pic of mine that I literally yanked out of the ground about a month ago.

 

[defra]

Love this! I will try to get a pic of mine that I literally yanked out of the ground about a month ago.

Please do !

 

[milehigh_7]

It's nothing to look at, and I have no idea what way to go with it but you asked. Sorry, I don't have a before shot. It was about a 2-3 foot ball when I started. I forgot to measure the caliper, I'll do it tomorrow.

 

[defra]

Rough sketch
deadwood
Green the foliage
Or the right side deadwood and the left to build up the tree with

Ive done the same with a little boxwood

 

[defra]

@milehigh_7

This boxwood im talking About to give an image with my idea

From this

To this

To this

 

[defra]

This one is doing good as well

 

[milehigh_7]

*sigh* just sold mine in last week's .99 auctions. It will be living in New Mexico now. The winner got it for $35! Pretty good deal for a 3.5" trunk.

 

[defra]

Realy do like the foliage some more color on the bench !

 

[Tieball]

Realy do like the foliage some more color on the bench !
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The tree's leaf foliage looks so....alive....healthy. Well done!

 

[defra]

@Marie1uk
Did you ever fully defoliated the bear?

This one grew nicely this season but with all the leaves its hard to see the branch structure and hard to see how to prune or wire the branches so i was thinking of defoliation next season

 

[milehigh_7]

Nice work!

 

[defra]

Even flowered wich i almosth didnt notice will take a update pic of tree tomoro it grown some more!

 

[Tieball]

@Marie1uk
Did you ever fully defoliated the bear?

This one grew nicely this season but with all the leaves its hard to see the branch structure and hard to see how to prune or wire the branches so i was thinking of defoliation next season

Defoliate an Euonymus? ...if that's the tree you're talking about. In my growing area the Euonymus only puts out one flush of growth per season/year. Well....I did defoliate my tree a few years ago....I thought it would develop more branching. Smart move...Go me! Hmmmm....didn't happen. I spent the rest of the year caring for a "winter image" no-leaf tree. No growth at all. But...after winter (the tree just winters outside in the cold snow and wind) spring arrived and those buds cared for the last season burst into new growth. Lesson learned....one growth cycle per year. Perhaps it is different in your climate.

 

[defra]

Defoliate an Euonymus? ...if that's the tree you're talking about. In my growing area the Euonymus only puts out one flush of growth per season/year. Well....I did defoliate my tree a few years ago....I thought it would develop more branching. Smart move...Go me! Hmmmm....didn't happen. I spent the rest of the year caring for a "winter image" no-leaf tree. No growth at all. But...after winter (the tree just winters outside in the cold snow and wind) spring arrived and those buds cared for the last season burst into new growth. Lesson learned....one growth cycle per year. Perhaps it is different in your climate.

It is an evergreen variety so dont know if it works exactly the same

 

[Paulpash]

@Marie1uk
Did you ever fully defoliated the bear?

This one grew nicely this season but with all the leaves its hard to see the branch structure and hard to see how to prune or wire the branches so i was thinking of defoliation next season

No I haven't as it's evergreen. I'd maybe defoliate one branch to see how it reacts or partial defoliation might be the way.

 

[Tieball]

It is an evergreen variety so dont know if it works exactly the same

Oh...cool. I definitely don't have that species.

 

[defra]

Just some pics to document development
Untouched is untouched time to pull some weeds


Weeds gone


Beercan for scale


Flowers


Pruning


After pruning




It seems to be happy inside the wooden box but I am Realy curious how the roots have developed so far I'll repot it next season, still lots of growing to do

 

[Paulpash]

I have another Euonymus too. Hope you don't mind if I share?

Tree as it is now


Trunk close up. Great snake like bark.


Carving I did


The raw material. As you can see it was initially variegated but it's completely reverted now to just plain green.


Initial carving. You can see some stems now unvariegated - this pattern it has kept ever since. All variegated leaves have now disappeared.


I have a few other pics but the upload keeps failing

 

[Victorim]

Lifted this bad boy recently. Going to be a great tree

 

[defra]

I have another Euonymus too. Hope you don't mind if I share?

Tree as it is now
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Trunk close up. Great snake like bark.
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Carving I did
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The raw material. As you can see it was initially variegated but it's completely reverted now to just plain green.
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Initial carving. You can see some stems now unvariegated - this pattern it has kept ever since. All variegated leaves have now disappeared.
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I have a few other pics but the upload keeps failing

Nope don't mind you sharing your tree!
It has Potentional!

@Victorim nice find!

You all make my tree feel small