As Mr. Mark stated, branch/trunk benders are NOT for boxwoods...Simply stated you can't possibly place enough padding on the branch to still have effective leverage with these devices and not ruin the bark and cambium on a boxwood...I believe I pretty thoroughly covered my methods in another thread here
Grampz Japanese Boxwood clump creation, particularly post #4...I have been through many 'trial and error' successes and disasters trying to achieve an effective method of bending large branches on the Japanese and Korean boxwoods, and this is the manner I have received the best results with...I have given programs to clubs on this method, and others have used it with success...If anyone has questions that are not answered in the thread I will be most happy to attempt to answer them...
The last time I gave a program on this was at the Austin Texas club and one of the members took some great photos of the work in progress...Perhaps it would be good to add a few of those to the thread on my method...
Regards
Behr
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