Saddler
Chumono
I bought this sometime around December 2010. I wired it up in the windswept style, looking back it has so many lols. I was so proud of it at the time.
Here it is a year ago tomorrow. I can't seem to find any pics between the five years in between these pics. It under went numerous changes. Windswept to cascade to nearly dead to broken branches to ignored and almost dead again from wet soil. This tree has spent as much time recovering from near death, if not more, as it has been growing.
Here it is today, in a new pot that I bought just for it. This tree is has been a bit of a survivor and one of my favourites, even though I have much nicer in my collection. I wanted to make it feel pretty.
From the back with the image flipped to get better idea of the trunk line from the front and where I want to go with it.
This is my first drawing of one of my trees. (I don't remember the last time a drew a picture so please be kind with the grade three drawing haha) I hear it's a recommended thing to do in these parts. I have been up in the air what to do with it for the better part of a decade. I now have my plan. I think.
I plan on losing the bottom two branches and focus on just the top because I have tried to get them to back bud so I can shorten them as they are long and taperless, but I have mangled them so badly with wire they give nothing.
My new bottom branch will be the one right above where the first branch leaves the trunk (last pic of tree, image is flipped) and I will start to develop from there. The bottom branches are going to grow as much as they can to help the roots develop and maybe thicken the trunk ever so slightly.
One thing this tree has is nice radial roots on it, while not as strong as I would like from the wet soil I had it in, but they are even all the way around and all coming out flat on one plane.
If anyone has any suggestions, critisms, ideas or anything else that might make it better, I would love to hear them.
Here it is a year ago tomorrow. I can't seem to find any pics between the five years in between these pics. It under went numerous changes. Windswept to cascade to nearly dead to broken branches to ignored and almost dead again from wet soil. This tree has spent as much time recovering from near death, if not more, as it has been growing.
Here it is today, in a new pot that I bought just for it. This tree is has been a bit of a survivor and one of my favourites, even though I have much nicer in my collection. I wanted to make it feel pretty.
From the back with the image flipped to get better idea of the trunk line from the front and where I want to go with it.
This is my first drawing of one of my trees. (I don't remember the last time a drew a picture so please be kind with the grade three drawing haha) I hear it's a recommended thing to do in these parts. I have been up in the air what to do with it for the better part of a decade. I now have my plan. I think.
I plan on losing the bottom two branches and focus on just the top because I have tried to get them to back bud so I can shorten them as they are long and taperless, but I have mangled them so badly with wire they give nothing.
My new bottom branch will be the one right above where the first branch leaves the trunk (last pic of tree, image is flipped) and I will start to develop from there. The bottom branches are going to grow as much as they can to help the roots develop and maybe thicken the trunk ever so slightly.
One thing this tree has is nice radial roots on it, while not as strong as I would like from the wet soil I had it in, but they are even all the way around and all coming out flat on one plane.
If anyone has any suggestions, critisms, ideas or anything else that might make it better, I would love to hear them.
They are so thick and healthy-looking and I'm sure they will grow more foliage with time. This tree is offering you the shape it wants to be. What about something like this? I know it's a totally different species but I think this shape is quite beautiful and achievable for this tree.
