AusBonsai

hey guys here are a couple of cherrys i dug down near the creek. Apoligises i only photoed one out of the ground. got 6 all up. The triple trunk in the growing bed is not bad . Both around 25 cm tall. Plum raft is a before pruning middle tree needs adjusting pics to follow . The large stump that looks like an olive is actually a forsythia i believe dug from the garden it nearly killed me but i was suprised but the amount of fine roots it had. Base is 12 inches across. Wounds yet to be tidyed up and sealed. bit more reducing bottom root mass, Im still tossing about that smaller trunk but can stay for now. More photos when i build a box for it. Included a pic of the flower for conformation. I assume the tree is quite old as they aint the fastest growing things around.

Hi Noah thats forsythia alright, they make lots of fibre which makes rootprunng/recovery a piece of cake. The wounds will take very long time to heal but they don't seem to rot like a wisteria, you should have fun with that one the Japanese grow them a bit but you don't see too many in australian collections. they are a really old fashioned plant not much used any more. I have a tiny species growing in the rock garden forsythia bronxiensis.
Craigw