prunus mume

[kez]

This one has lost its flowers, and while I'm sad to see them go (along with the resident bees that have also been enjoying it) I was also very much looking forward to getting some style into this tree.

It has/had some fairly significant issues that I have attempted to rectify without losing too much of what was there, and have hopefully been gentle enough to ensure a bright spring time

I have always admired the wild styling in the examples I have seen so with that in mind here's what I ended up with

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Hopefully this also helps to join the trunk line with the rest of the tree, and make sense of the deadwood

Hope you all enjoy

Kerrin

[Thymetraveller]

That's a sweet pot too, Kerrin!

[melbrackstone]

I'm going to enjoy watching this one develop!

Thanks for sharing!

[Pearcy001]

Love it

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[melbrackstone]

i bought a couple of two year old seedlings, just the other day....

got a long way to go before I have anything worthy, but this post has inspired me.

[Borosta]

i bought a couple of two year old seedlings, just the other day....

got a long way to go before I have anything worthy, but this post has inspired me.

Where did you score yours from?


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[melbrackstone]

I found the guy on Gumtree.

Jac Orchids, Rare and unusual plants. He's growing lots of so called temperate plants on his block in south west Brisbane.

0413 515 176

http://www.ebay.com/itm/rare-fruit-prun ... SwVFlT9gPL

[melbrackstone]

Oh, much closer to you, there's Winter Hill tree farm...

They're featuring a weeping prunus this week...

http://www.winterhill.com.au/

[astroboy76]

prunus mume thicken rapidly if ground grown for a season or two. I have many seedling of various ages, weeping pink, white, double white, double pink and benichidori. all grow fast

[Bonbon]

Hey folks,

Yesterday I was lucky enough to pick up a beautiful old mume, I believe it was planted around 1990.

It had a fair bit of dead and rotted wood on the trunk so I got out the dremel and got to work, I plan on mixing in some ash with the lime sulphur to darken it up and make it look more suitable.

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And the view of the trunk from the intended front

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And the whole tree

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For now I intend to pot the tree up and just enjoy the flowers from the huge number of buds, and then after flowering I will make my choices re. branches and start to build the structure

Cheers,

Kerrin

Where did you get it?
Any update photo?

[kez]

Well i bit the bullet with this tree,

I was never happy with the upper section, in leaf it didnt look like i had hoped it would so crossing my fingers and hoping for some back budding here's what I decided on

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It did shoot at the base of a large branch I removed before potting it up last year so I am hoping it will do the same

Kez

[melbrackstone]

So elegant!

[KIRKY]

You certainly did bite the bullet. Has it flowered yet? I hope it shoots well for you
None of these look good in leaf, the leaf doesn't reduce its all new shoots and growth. Mine was just a green pom, pom all summer. But when it flowers.......... who cares that its a pom, pom.
Cheers
Kirky

[kez]

Yes flowers been and gone, I Love it, the whole backyard smells of it! Even if it doesn't shoot back I can build the branch that's there, that's why I was game enough to chop it

[treeman]

I hope it des well for you kez. They are not as easy to train as some others. Especially the double varieties are reluctant to bud well.
I have used the 3 leaf removal technique on young growth without much difference in the number of leaf buds at the end of the season.