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I love beech in nature, behind my parent's house, there is a grove of trees that look at least 500 years old, but for bonsai they are very frustrating, they produce one spurt of growth in the spring and that's it for the next twelve months. Even though I have access to a lot of great beech, I'm starting to realize that beech bonsai will take a long time to fully develop.

That said I like the lines of your tree very much, I hope you do too, but it's going to look like that for a long time. That beech won't thicken up hardly any and it will take years to ramify. Basically, if you are happy with the present image, great, because don't expect much to happen.

7-May-2006	#2
soonami bonsaiTALK Master Chief Join Date: Oct-2005 Location: Philadelphia Country: USA USDA Zone: 7 AHS Heat Zone: 6 Posts: 1,044	I love beech in nature, behind my parent's house, there is a grove of trees that look at least 500 years old, but for bonsai they are very frustrating, they produce one spurt of growth in the spring and that's it for the next twelve months. Even though I have access to a lot of great beech, I'm starting to realize that beech bonsai will take a long time to fully develop. That said I like the lines of your tree very much, I hope you do too, but it's going to look like that for a long time. That beech won't thicken up hardly any and it will take years to ramify. Basically, if you are happy with the present image, great, because don't expect much to happen.