Some of those shrubs

[Tambrand]

I would like to show, but it will be slow as I am not the photographer, and so as time becomes available.......

Sageretia t.

From a chance seed,
age - about 4 years
Height - 15 cm
Trunk diameter - still growing to 2.5 cm

Soil mix - my standard - 1/3 - 1/3 - 1/3 - Crushed red earthenware brick [ still porous ], builder's gravel [ silica based ] and compost/coco peat or Canadian peatmoss. Inorganic at 5 mm.
Placement - light shade.

I am using the oversized pot as the growing pot.

* I noted that large cuts [ over 1.25 cm ] don't heal well or not at all. Afterwards, the wood will rot. So I decided to work from seed and see if I can grow a healed Sparrow's plum [ as we know it.]

The plant will sleep from after Christmas until February's end or so. Which means no extensions, and the leaves will begin to brown at the edges and need to be plucked off . Complete defoliation.
Growth after March is continuous, more or less weekly.

After repotting, the tree is given a week in bright light and then returned to it's growing position, Fertilising re-starts a month after and since we have a pronounced period of dryness, known as our Dry Season [ say January until May/June.] Fertiliser is 1/3 strength Lawn fertiliser once a week, into moist soil.
Wet season I shift to Multicote , good for 6 months at 30 deg.C.

Grow and Clip,

Did I miss anything ?
Images are the shrub today and the drawing is what I hope for down the road. More will be given to the negative spaces [ where the birds can fly through ] as time goes by. With the interior being cleared of chance shoots continuously.
Later.
Tambrand

* I have about 6 different cultivars, some are leaf dense, but trunk deficient and others are trunked but shy of branchlets and leaves.

[Tambrand]

In 94 and 96, I went to England to get some stock plants and then to grow my own from cuttings etc.

Here is one from the cutting set.
I did forget one thing, they take two years, with all that growing, to become pot bound. If you carefully dig up one of the cuttings, it takes a year to re-establish a good root core.

Trouble was every one of the cuttings from my growing troughs had holes and they started to decay.
So I had to find another way to grow them.
Later
Tambrand

* This one has grown on beyond this last image.

[Scooter_M]

love the look of these try, seems so balanced and peaceful

[wattynine]

Nice Tambrand, thanks for posting.
On the first one to the left hand side you have some very low foliage both on the tree and on your drawing, hanging below the lowest branch, just not sure on that but I still love the tree.
On the second one have you thought about the "snaky" back branch, just me , I would lose it and open up the lower negative space (also for the birds to fly under), but you can see the tree up close I cannot.
Have you tried covering it up with a white cloth to what the tree would look like without it?

Like your work

Watty

[Tambrand]

Scotter thanks for looking.

Watty, good suggestion, will try and be trying for another 5 to 10 years, as I try to build character into the branches.

How the last shrub has gone on to grow, and I have thinned it out for easier viewing. Also testing a new shoot at the base.
Also included is the diagram that guides the work.
Laters
Tambrand

* The red dot is where I will probably have to cut back to and start over for branchlet training,
Oversized pot is the growing on pot.

[adge0001]

Your drawing is really nice and stylised. Although you said it's a growing pot, I think it really suits your tree. I'd compact the foliage a bit more, to this about this size...


It's coming along really well. Nice work.


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[Tambrand]

Well Adge0001,

seems we think alike, notice the red dot in the last image.

Proportion --- isn't it odd how much one has to go through to get branches to visually belong to the trunk - Chuckle.

Here is another cultivar of the Sageretia t. More woody and fewer leaves.
Later.
Tambrand

[Tambrand]

And so the saga continues,

[1] How I start a chance seedling
[2] One of the cuttings from 94-96, and being left to go bushy, for branch thickening.

Later.
Tambrand