#1: [IBC] Cutting Down Trees
Posted on 2005-06-22 03:48:07 by prydlion
I am new to bonsai and have a question. I have noticed that my bonsai teacher often cuts down trees severely, leaving only one foot of tree left, in order to better develop bonsai material. Is this a practice that can be done with all trees or only certain trees. If only certain trees can tolerate such "pruning", what kinds of trees can tolerate it? ( ie. deciduos, evergreens, conifers) and when is the proper season to do this?
Thanks!
Martha
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#2: Re: [IBC] Cutting Down Trees
Posted on 2005-06-22 04:10:10 by jklewis
Martha Fifield wrote:
> I am new to bonsai and have a question. I have noticed
> that my bonsai teacher often cuts down trees severely,
> leaving only one foot of tree left, in order to better
> develop bonsai material. Is this a practice that can be
> done with all trees or only certain trees. If only
> certain trees can tolerate such "pruning", what kinds of
> trees can tolerate it? ( ie. deciduos, evergreens,
> conifers) and when is the proper season to do this?
> Thanks! Martha
>
Go here: http://www.evergreengardenworks.com/trunks.htm
That article and the linked article to Black Pines shold
explain it better than we can.
Jim Lewis - jklewis@nettally.com - Tallahassee, FL - Nature
encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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