Powerful Fairy Tale Privet

[j evans]

That looked really nice and was an excellent job of making a great piece with lots of potential.
Hats Off!

 

[BobbyLane]

Cheers folks,
Privet are a great species for bonsai, extremely forgiving, fully hardy and will develop fine ramification in a very short time, 5 years this would look really good with just clip n grow.

 

[BobbyLane]

the tree cost £45 from a landscape nursery...

i often wonder how my old trees are doing.
if i had the space to keep all these trees id be building up quite an impressive collection.

 

[jradics]

Yep it should be fine, it has a dense root pad. they do produce very small flowers, not long lived though. this will be a fun project, they're such vigorous growers. they produce a nice winter image, can get really twiggy. as they dont usually drop their leaves, folks will defoliate them over winter. can be a bit like chinese elm where some remain evergreen and some shed their leaves.

I am in Atlanta and they are growing everywhere including in the creekbed in front of the house. Seem indestructable. I will get the truck and a chain and yamadori a few this winter