Texas Mountain Laurel Bonsai
It will produce very fragrant purple hanging flowers in early spring usually around late march to early april.
Texas mountain laurel bonsai. I just recently purchased a 1 2 year old sapling from a native plant sale in my area. The texas mountain laurel tree calia secundiflora also called the mescal bean. Texas mountain laurel is a small north american native evergreen growing 15 to 25 feet tall with a 10 foot spread but is capable of reaching up to 50 feet tall in its native habitat. I couldn t find any on the reddit search bar and google didn t bring up many results.
It has a narrow upright silhouette and dense foliage which lends itself well to being pruned into a tree form. A few of them i plan on letting grow into full sized trees for my property but i was wondering if anyone has tried training one into a bonsai. Is texas mountain laurel good as bonsai. They grow up to 15 maybe 20 ft.
It has a narrow upright silhouette and dense foliage which lends itself well to being pruned into a tree form. I collected quite a few texas mountain laurel saplings from some wooded areas by my house. A great flowering small to a medium sized evergreen tree. Tall and about 15 ft.
My fellow texan bonsai enthusiasts have any of you had good luck in successfully keeping a texas mountain laurel bonsai. Texas mountain laurel sophora secundiflora is an evergreen multi trunk shrub or small tree depending on how you choose to plant and train it in your garden.