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bonsaiTALK Journeyman
Join Date: Mar-2006
Country: GREAT BRITAIN
Posts: 11
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A picture of my wisteria before and after 16 years of training
hi everyone
I'm new to this forum and I would like to show you a picture of my wisteria that has flowered for the first time after 16 years of training.Up until now it has produced only a few racemes.
This is one of the first bonsai I started and I have had to learn as I have gone along (getting it to flower being one of the most puzzling aspects) and consequently there have been a few cringing mistakes.
It has just been put into it's first proper pot having tried half a dozen different shapes along the way (to try to make it flower). I wil include a "before" picture taken when it was uprooted from the garden in 1990 (again because it wouldn't flower!)
Unfortunately we have just had a mini heatwave which made the flowers very brittle and the thunderstorm that followed knocked off the top florets off all the racemes. I have also removed about half the leaves as the repotting caused a fair amount of unintentioinal root damage.
I'd welcome some opinions in favour or otherwise!
Regs Dave
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