Red Flowering Hawthorn

[Watto]

Its the only one I have so I don't know yet, but I can tell you in about four or five years time. I do plan to carve the cuts to tidy them up a bit in the future, but right now I am just hoping for plenty of new shoots from the trunk, fingers crossed?

[GavinG]

Nice reduction to something interesting. Please keep posting. I'm assuming you have something like that reserved for me on Sunday?

Gavin

[Watto]

There is probably a 1000 better than that, but they aren't red flowering!

[Dario]

Nice trunk line and lovely flowers Watto!
Too late for this one, but if you haven't read this yet I thought you may find it interesting.
Cheers, Dario.
http://ofbonsai.org/techniques/styles-a ... -technique

[bodhidharma]

I read that hawthorn don't callous much does this one heal over?

It is true that they dont heal well but they darken a lot and blend in despite their lack of healing over. Gonna be an awesome tree Watto.

[Boics]

Nice trunk line and lovely flowers Watto!
Too late for this one, but if you haven't read this yet I thought you may find it interesting.
Cheers, Dario.
http://ofbonsai.org/techniques/styles-a ... -technique

I reckon this probably deserves a thread of it's own..
Quite clever indeed.

[Watto]

Dario - there is a bit of trunk still on one cut so I will give this a try. Thanks for the info, that sort of experiment is worth having a go at.
I might do it tomorrow and post the pictures.

[Dario]

Good luck, look forward to the pics Watto.
Cheers, Dario.

[Watto]

OK so I had a go at the folding the bark over technique, and the photos are following. A few things I did learn - the rough old bark doesn't bend, you need young bark; it will take a few goes to master the technique, especially getting the correct thickness of the small sliver of wood near the cambium.
I used the cut paste in the tube as that is all I had, but the one in the screw top jar would be much better.
Anyway, I will tell you how successful it was in two years time.