Stumps from cotoneaster acutifolia hedge: anyone else tried these.

[Tycoss]

I recently tore out a cotoneaster hedge in my yard. I kept two stumps that had some girth and movement to them. I think I just wanted to join the “trying to turn old hedge stumps int bonsai” club. Anyone have any relevant experience with the species?
These are from May 7th.

 

[Tycoss]

These are from today:
One picture of each side.i removed a couple “girdling roots” since I took these.

 

[Tycoss]

When I get some buds I like on the straight top sections, I’ll be shortening them further. I’ll also thin out other shoots after they have had a few more weeks to grow.

 

[Mike Corazzi]

Stumps work fine. This is the driveway salvage one from earlier this year.



Leafing out a bit.

 

[Tycoss]

These seem to be growing quite vigorously right now. I’ll do some branch selection this fall after leaf drop, wiring next spring. Eventually some carving is going to happen as well. Comments?

 

[Tycoss]

The surface roots of the second one are much nicer, but are buried right now. Here they are on the first stump:

 

[Tycoss]

They did well this year. Nice and bushy:

 

[Tycoss]

Update: first one was shortened and growing out for branch thickness.

 

[Tycoss]

How's this for an ugly stump?

 

[Tycoss]

Update on the first one: I'm happy with how it's coming for just a couple years:
I'm letting the branches extend for awhile to thicken, but have wired some movement into the twigs.

the berries will turn black and stay on all winter