bilbocannon
Shohin
A local nursery is closing down they had these on sale for $5 each, i dont know what they are but im assuming some sort of fruit tree. Pear maybe?
Tree two.
Tree two.
I think i got lucky..what are these?
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bilbocannon
Shohin
The 2nd tree is very strange i wouldnt have a clue what to do with it. In the mean time i just tired all the branches together in the centre, maybe to fuse into a central trunk?
bilbocannon
Shohin
The branches have thorns on them.
Tieball
Masterpiece
Cool.....I think that second tree crawled out, escaped from the ocean and disguised itself as a tree on land.
The first tree has good potential...however, I am not at all familiar with a pear tree as bonsai material. It just looks like good potential in your photo. Have fun!
I had a pear tree in the yard before that had thorns like that. Leaves look the same. Thanks for the memory....cuts all over my arms when it finally had to go.
The first tree has good potential...however, I am not at all familiar with a pear tree as bonsai material. It just looks like good potential in your photo. Have fun!
I had a pear tree in the yard before that had thorns like that. Leaves look the same. Thanks for the memory....cuts all over my arms when it finally had to go.
bilbocannon
Shohin
You are not wrong the 2nd tree is for sure one of he stranger tree's i have ever seen.
Haha i didnt realise it had thorns until i got spiked. Still im pretty happy with them for $5 each.
Tieball
Masterpiece
You can snip those thorns right off. I snip them off on Hawthorns.
Looks like nice material to start eliminating some of those branches....especially where there are several growing from one point at the trunk. Maybe oddly...I'd keep as many of the small diameter to small medium diameter branches and cut off the rest. Seems like there are choices for a new leader midway up the tree. Comments from others will be interesting....and likely much more helpful than my comments.
You might hear...leaves don't reduce. Growth is very coarse. Setting that aside...have fun seeing what you can create.
Looks like nice material to start eliminating some of those branches....especially where there are several growing from one point at the trunk. Maybe oddly...I'd keep as many of the small diameter to small medium diameter branches and cut off the rest. Seems like there are choices for a new leader midway up the tree. Comments from others will be interesting....and likely much more helpful than my comments.
You might hear...leaves don't reduce. Growth is very coarse. Setting that aside...have fun seeing what you can create.
Woodland Spirit
Chumono
I'm not sure these are pears.
I'm not that familiar with pears though.
I'm not that familiar with pears though.
Saizan
Yamadori
First one is a perfect candidate for bonsai. Second one is freaky, just call Lt. Ripley 
But ****, it was 500 cents!
But ****, it was 500 cents!
bilbocannon
Shohin
The lady wasnt sure. Said she would find out and i said not to worry.
bilbocannon
Shohin
First one is a perfect candidate for bonsai. Second one is freaky, just call Lt. Ripley
But ****, it was 500 cents!
Agreed. I am going to embrace the freak and make it as wierd as possible.
bilbocannon
Shohin
Awesome thanks for the info. Im stoked that i was able to pic this up for just $5.
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Would you have freaked out if she came back and said.........the F word!
The first one is perfectly nice.
The other is...the exact opposite!
I love em both!
I'd consider taking the trunk down to that first group of branches. Looks a wicked broom.
Nice score!
Sorce
jeremy_norbury
Omono
Great find. Weird f*cking trees are the best.
My Loch Ness Privet...
01313204 by Jerry Norbury, on Flickr
My Loch Ness Privet...
01313204 by Jerry Norbury, on Flickr
bilbocannon
Shohin
I gave it a bit of a hair cut, dont really know what direction im taking it. Sugggestions?
im not sure if i should make the blue or the red the new leader... or go further down to find the leader??
im not sure if i should make the blue or the red the new leader... or go further down to find the leader??
bilbocannon
Shohin
You mean taking the trunk down to the red line and making the blue the new leader?
I didnt want to wait around just incase they had made a mistake. It seemed to good to be true.
bilbocannon
Shohin
Great find. Weird f*cking trees are the best.
My Loch Ness Privet...
Awesome. I think you have mistaken your Arnold privet for a lochness privet.
bonsaiBlake
Chumono
the leaf and new growth looks very cherryish to me. pears have smooth edges, and those are slightly serrated like the cherry fam, any flowers? the young growth having those spots is also typical of a fruiting tree. Do they all have thorns, if so they're hawthorn. Very similar leaf. The flowers with tell you everything. . . .
bonsaiBlake
Chumono
bilbocannon
Shohin
No flowers and fruit at the moment. Guess i will just have to wait and see.
