AusBonsai

Thanks Ken, I did try that once with my nail.

I might rub all shoots off bar the ones in the right places and have another try with a proper knife edge.

Failing that I will wire the upper most shoot as north as I can.

Repotted and trimmed this one up today.

Fro the last few years i have applying a technique that we discussed here to keep the leaves small on these.
Before bud break, cut off all the new buds so the tree will have to replace them all before spring growth. The theory is that the replacements wil all be smaller.
Happy to say that i tink this works like a treat!

over the last few years, I have only had to remove a few leaves that get otta hand as they all mostly stay i nice proportion to the tree.

With the warm weather here at the moment, all my trees think it is spring and this one had beds swelling already!

Ken

New smaller buds starting to open now. Exciting times in the garden

I have done this with my PinOak to see if it works there to reduce the leaves this year and am going to try this on soem english oaks next year as they have already opened up here

Ken