I put one in the ground and in no time I had what I thought was a fiarly pleasing broom shape although I do have memory of putting a picture of it on BT chat one day with Fly and another member (can't remember who) likened it to a claw hand
But I can't find a picture of it today. I had cut it back so hard to almost defoliate it three times in one growing season it was growing that fast and all of a sudden after cutting it back it just carked it. I never believed that animals pissing on trees could kill them but we do have a very big dog and I can imagine the dog did piss on it after I had cut it back. So that and possibly being cut back hard so often are the only two guesses I have why that one died but still unsure what happened so suddenly 
But for some reason I still felt this species was a good one and wanted to make sure I kept the other two alive until I could get some cuttings or find out what species it was.
A few years ago the last two saplings ended up in the ground and I planned to take some cuttings before I pulled them out in case I killed them but as usual that didn't happen. When organising the grow area through winter their growth was in the way and I cut them back below any foliage. They sat as stumps for weeks and recently when I was working the ground I noticed they had started to sprout agian. I had planned to pull them up once it warmed up some more but with shovel in hand and the new growth I decided it was now or never this year.
First one in the shopping crate came out with a decent spread of main roots but not much in the way of fine roots and the one in the nursery pot had a serious tap root but also the very start of what could be a great surface root spread. I put them under the verandah out of the frost and onto a heat mat. The nursery pot one came out several days after the other one with a little more advanced shoots and seems to be recovering better but they are both making progress.
Here they are today. A long way to go but I thought it might interest some one. I think I will see how they go in the pot for a couple of years but I think they will need to go back in the ground at some stage to keep building the trunk.
This is the only pic I can find of them today in full leaf. Although this tree was tall straight and weirdly young looking I still some how enjoyed this tree in it's pot 4 years ago. It shows how happy this tree is in a bonsai pot anyway. If anyone has any idea of the species that would be great! Oh I am guessing this is the tree in the nursery pot before it went in the ground but I could be wrong.
