Alder - clip and grow
Posted: May 25th, 2019, 9:56 am
Good Morning.
This little plant is close to my heart. I believe it to be an Alder - self seeded in dad’s garden. He didn’t want it - I wanted to play.
I guess I have had it for perhaps three years? I may have wired it in past - but if so not much. It’s as close to clip and grow from the get go as I have.
Anyway - here it is this morning and after a hair cut. I’m trying to repair all my mistakes of the past while I make mistakes now ... I hope you get what I mean. I guess what I am saying is the little tree is tolerant of my treating it as a learning exercise.
I like the little fella - nothing special to folks on the outside but he and I are growing together.
I suppose this is the issue with not letting a tree grow freely when young to fatten trunk, not using sacrifice branches etc... - the trunk remains thin, little taper etc... I imagine in the same time period, with such a vigorous tree, people would have trunks three times as large ... and probability achieved better ramification as well.
Still learning ....
Bonsai teaches me patience.
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This little plant is close to my heart. I believe it to be an Alder - self seeded in dad’s garden. He didn’t want it - I wanted to play.
I guess I have had it for perhaps three years? I may have wired it in past - but if so not much. It’s as close to clip and grow from the get go as I have.
Anyway - here it is this morning and after a hair cut. I’m trying to repair all my mistakes of the past while I make mistakes now ... I hope you get what I mean. I guess what I am saying is the little tree is tolerant of my treating it as a learning exercise.
I like the little fella - nothing special to folks on the outside but he and I are growing together.
I suppose this is the issue with not letting a tree grow freely when young to fatten trunk, not using sacrifice branches etc... - the trunk remains thin, little taper etc... I imagine in the same time period, with such a vigorous tree, people would have trunks three times as large ... and probability achieved better ramification as well.
Still learning ....
Bonsai teaches me patience.
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