Sweet Gum Bonsai
I have several large sweet gum trees growing around the yard.
Sweet gum bonsai. Progression carousel sweetgum. Sources of sweetgum cut the trunk to roughly 12 24 then sever the lateral roots to within 4 6 of the trunk. He works to answer every email personally as soon as it arrives in his inbox. The good thing about sweetgums and this is true for maples as well is that the leaves are attached to the branches by means of petioles which are often as long as the leaves themselves.
I ve got a long way to go obviously but this is how every bonsai gets its start. Bio garten vers and pdf document from sweet gum bonsai source vdocuments site the bonsai is a stunning slow growing plant which can be well worth saving if there s still some life within it. The fruit is small and edible tasting sweet as the name suggests young growth is reddish in color before it matures and the bark quickly becomes scaly and aged looking. Sweet gum liquidambar is a deciduous tree often growing to 70 feet in height.
Click the arrow on the right to go forward and see the next image s in the progression. They grow straight with thick trunks and have great leaves in the fall. So what you do is just snip the petiole of each leaf. Both trunks are the same thickness so there s no rule to follow in regard to having the smaller.
Thrust the blade up under the tree and sever the taproot. We love bonsai you love bonsai let s talk. Then in the spring the buds start to swell and then they die. 225 784 2168.
The tree has grown well this year and it s ready for a bonsai pot. Because of its relatively small leaf size and rapid development it makes a great bonsai subject. Its cultivation for hardwood products is second only to the elm tree. Sweet gum as bonsai 2 years 2 months ago 38747.
I think i like this view best for the front. Sageretia theezans bonsai care about the chinese sweet plum bonsai tree the flowering sweet plum is a rhamnacae family of trees native to southern china. But where s the front. In comparison to the normal potted house plant bonsai are suspended in a significantly smaller volume of dirt.
I mean they have so many leaves right. Drop zach a line with your questions and comments. Most trees should be out of the ground in under five minutes using this tool. Defoliating an established bonsai is a tedious chore.
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