Crataegus Bonsai
The leaves are alternative simple or lobed and mid to dark green.
Crataegus bonsai. With small leaves craggy bark fine twigging flowers fruit and the possibility of some autumn colour in warm years english hawthorn is a spectacular species for bonsai and one of the finest deciduous trees for bonsai cultivation in the world. This is easiest to see in deciduous trees which may be pruned in. 56 myths exposed using science and tradition and expand on it to investigate dangling questions. The problem it is trying to correct frost damage from still soft shoots is more often a mis timed pruning in the summer.
The distribution is vast spreading from america in the west through europe and on. This is the first in a series of blog posts to take a chapter from bonsai heresy. Hawthorn crataegus monogyna hawthorn progression by heike van gunst the hawthorn is plant that grows like a shrub in most cases and it takes many years to develop thick trunks. Like all chapters in bonsai heresy chapter 5 is ironically titled though this one is the.
For bonsai it has a number of good characteristics. But the real benefit from studying on the teacher s trees is that the information can then be brought back to the trees at home and you get to reapply what was learned. The most common type of bark is smooth grey in young individuals developing shallow longitudinal fissures with narrow ridges in older trees. Crataegus an interesting plant that is either a spreading tree or large shrub.
The wild tree has white flowers and red fruit. Chapter 25 of bonsai heresy is about the mistaken notions of avoiding nitrogen in our fall fertilizing by using 0 10 10. Small leaves white flowers red berries and a nice bark on old trees. Crataegus is a genus of 200 or more species of usually spiny deciduous occasionally semi evergreen small trees and shrubs occurring in woodland and scrub in northern temperate regions of the world.
Crataegus species are shrubs or small trees mostly growing to 5 15 m 16 49 ft tall with small pome fruit and usually thorny branches.