Viburnum Bonsai
2 trees are your standard informal design and the newest one is being designed in a full cascade style.
Viburnum bonsai. Viburnum farreri nanum bonsai i found a really nice viburnum farreri nanum that had a very nice trunk on it and one very long cascading branch at a local nursery. Viburnum is a deciduous shrub that blooms in spring with beautiful white flowers. Viburnum pragense is an evergreen viburnum that occasionally drops its leaves during a cold winter. I liked the size of the leaves and thought it would make a good bonsai tree.
It is a deciduous species and will add fall color when the leaves change. If no new leaves appear on stems wait another week or two before pruning. For instance this plant has large clusters of waxy flowers with bright red berries that fade to black in the fall. Having looked at viburnum for my yard some are more evergreen and others more deciduous in nature.
When to prune viburnum pragense after a hard winter is after new growth starts appearing. I currently have 3 viburnum burkwoodii trees under development. Walter s viburnum stays evergreen during the winter. The tiny flowers are creamy white with five 5 petals and arranged in flat topped cymes that are 2 3 across emerging in early spring along with the new shoots and leaves they are mildly fragrant and very showy.
The mariesii viburnum is a very beautiful shrub which has a blooming as magnificent in spring as its foliage is in fall. Viburnums are a group of large flowering shrubs with some varieties reaching up to 20 feet. Its leaves have a marked green nerve turning to purple red in autumn. Many have either white or pink blooms in early spring.
There are both evergreen and deciduous viburnum shrubs. Viburnum bonsai inter node and leaf reduction technique i believe this technique will work on any viburnum not just burkwoodii trees. As part of a flowered hedge as a standalone or in shrub beds its growing and maintenance is easy. When this happens pruning is your tool of choice to rejuvenate the plant.
I think your question on whether the leaves reduce depends on the type of viburnum.