curly_yew

Another Taxus-project. A Taxus baccata freshly taken out of the field.
In 2016 I "twisted" the thin trunc with wire.
I wanted to provoke a curled, uneven look of the trunc.
Now the yew is sheduled to establish within the traing-pot for abut two years.
A first, humble designing of the branches will we done in autumn this year.

Ehm ..., by the way, the third pictures shows a MC (Music Casette) as a scale.
(This was a nagnetic data storage device people used a very long time ago to record music on ...)

taxus_baccata_repanda

A new project. A Taxus baccata repanda, wich means this species is cultured to creep
along the gardens soil to serve as a groundcover-plant.
Anyway ...
I acquired the tree as a bargain from a local garden-center.
the yew before the styling:

And after the styling session:
And again,
if my wife would say: "You utterly ruined the poor tree!"
than I would know that I have done everything right... ;-)

prunus _timeline

Jeroen Mentens wanted to see the development of this Prunus.
Et voilà here we go ...pictures in a line from 2012 to 2019 ...
Please bear in mind, that the tree will receive a major change in design,
maybe in direction of a windswept-form.
Very small leafes she has, by the way ..

update_prunus_cerasifera

After a couple of years I decided to break the straight line of the trunk into something broken and perforated, while incoporating the upcoming son-trunc.
Well and this is the result before a further serious redesigning in summer 2019.
'Hope you can see a concept in that and like ...

third_thuja_of_three

The third brother of three thuja occidentalis.
Same as the others raw ,ugly and at the very first beginning.
A lot of carving has been done. The trunc is very massiv ...

current_pics_field_elm

Some current pictures of the field-elm.
Well, this tree is for sale ...
Somebody who loves this tree, is the right one to develop it further on.
The tree simply want to leave my garden ...

virtual_thujaocci_2

And, conform to the posting-title , a virtual to display a possible apperance of this tree ...
' Hope you like it ...