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Day: January 25, 2017
Swelling Buds
Signs of life around the garden the other morning. I’ve started to walk round and inspect things a bit more often, expecting to see buds starting to swell on some plant/tree species. I’m looking forward to some flowers within the next few weeks:
European Hornbeam (Carpinus Betulus)
Flowering Peach (Prunus Persica)
Japanese Apricot (Prunus Mume)
Damson Tree (Prunus Insititia)
Japanese Maple (Acer Palmatum)
Berberis First Wiring
This berberis was ready for it’s first wiring. I wanted to give it a first wiring last year but it budded out before I got near it.
I wanted to make a few further decisions about trunk selection and get the basic branch structure going in the right direction. A very brittle tree to work with and covered in tiny thin thorns, painful. This was the result. Early days with this being it’s first sighting of wire but great potential going forward.
For earlier posts on this tree see: Just acquired and Berberis Clump Repot
Seen here in 2014
Another Larch and a Potentilla Re-wired Today
This Larch, collected in 2012, was styled and put into its current pot in March 2014. Unfortunately I never took a before picture of this one when I acquired it but the collected material needed very little effort to get it to look like it does now. It will be re-potted this year as soon as the weather will allow.
This is how it looked without wire at the start of the day
And this is how it looks at the moment
It has quite a nice nebari that is hidden by the soil at the moment. That will be sorted when it is re-potted into this Walsall Ceramics oval, in the next few weeks
This next one, a potentilla fruticosa, was dug from a friends garden about 2-3 years ago
This is how it looked shortly after I acquired it.
And this is how it looks at the moment with the…
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