No major changes so far. This yew had a really good growing-season, hence the amount of
adventious-buds for back-budding next spring.
The height of this tree is about 25 cm. The future layout of the height will not expand over 28 cm.
I am looking for a pot for this particular Taxus baccata.
The next Trophy in Genk/Belgium will bring up a good opportunity to find something suitable.
... as raw-material of course.
Two years ago i visited a nursery in a suburb of my home-town.
A small Taxus baccata laid aside a road on the nursery-yard, wich had obviously been run over by a
tractor or such. The little tree was in a very poor state, but i thought, what a pitty, one should try to
develop something out of almost less than nothing.
As i asked the manager to buy this unlucky specimen, he looked at me in the most compassionated
way and said : "Well Sir, its a gift ... ."
Maybe this man considered me for being an absolut mad-man (or rather an utter fool), but anyway,
here I go with my Taxus.
Formerly the yew had two stems and a whole lot more branches but most of them were broken.
So I decided to go for a very reduced design from scratch.
And again a tree, wich I considered to be too dense.
This was okay so far, since the tree gained a lot of energy because of its large amount of green-mass.
But then comes the time to "destill" a kind of essence of the tree's character.
Now I will start again to lead the growing-energy to the right spoots within the trees-System.
Sometimes things has to become worse before getting better ...
Do not be disappointed when comparing the pistures of May '23 to nowerdays state of development.
In the long run, this concept of reducing to the max will be rewarding ...
My designing-aim on this one had been:
1) developing the green-mass closer to the trunc
2) creating a domeshaped apex and
3) defining the leaf-pads ...
I am satisfied with this state of design so far ...
Further development of one of my Juniperus Squamata (meyeri or blue star variaty).
The very beginning of this particular designing-journey had been not that easy for me.
Didn`t know what to do with the raw-material, but once you start to find the truncline and do some
structural wiring such a project turns out clearer and clearer.
pictures as of today, with different front-views ... wich one do you like best?
