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10-Jun-2002
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Hemlock
I just purchased a Hemlock, but am not sure of the latin name. I was told it was a Mountain Hemlock. Does anyone know the latin name?
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10-Jun-2002
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Re: Hemlock
[i:f8a5261116]Tsuga mertensiana[/i:f8a5261116]
It's one of my favorite species to work with. I'm still learning how this particular tree responds to various techniques, thus far, but I like what I've seen. -Old Mister
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10-Jun-2002
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Re: Hemlock
I purchased one this winter and shaped and potted it this spring. After some great comments from here I changed the front slightly (it was in a round pot) and re-bent some of the wires but I think the tree is dying. It has lost all of its needles so don't know if it will bud out or not. It had great promise to be one of my better trees!
So if anybody has any tips that I didn't know about, please share them!! Earl |
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10-Jun-2002
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Old Mister Crow
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Re: Hemlock
Hi Earl,
I just went back and looked at your hemlock - it was posted back before I found this board. It's a nice tree, and I'd go with the informal upright styling rather than the slant styling, if I were you. As for care tips, so far about all I've figured out is the following: 1) They seem to be thirsty trees - don't let them dry out completely. 2) They start happily in the understory, and so are quite shade tolerant. I haven't had any problems with overexposure to sunlight, but it's just something to keep in mind. 3) They don't seem to be much better than other conifers in terms of root-pruning tolerance. 4) It is very easy, when wiring and shaping, to twist the cambium away from the wood underneath, killing the branch. I lost a decent fraction of wired branches (>10  until I figured this out - and I tend to use wire gently and in moderation.Beyond that, I'll have to report back in a few years. I've got a half-dozen two-year olds, a 12" one in a terracotta pot, and a huge multitrunk still unshaped. And then there are the canadian and western hemlocks, as well... -Cranky
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13-Jun-2002
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Re: Hemlock
If this one doesn't make it, I'll have to try another one. I did transplant, then wire, then after Matt's ideas about arching branches rather than the way I did it...pine style... I re-bent all the branches. And then when i wasn't happy, bent some again! I treated it like my Junipers!! So maybe what you said about the cambium is right on...I could have just abused it too much. This was a big tree, too, and I did a drastic root prune to get it into the pot. Didn't know they were that delicate. I sort of thought of them like our fir trees out here...tough old birds that can't be killed.
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13-Jun-2002
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Old Mister Crow
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Re: Hemlock
Earl,
That could be it, then. Did the wired branches relatively quickly turn brown and lose their needles? This has been my experience with hemlocks, thus far. Here's one of my current hemlock projects, a mountain hemlock [i:e3dc82b2f0]Tsuga mertensiana `Jarvis'[/i:e3dc82b2f0]. I am aiming to make it into a big multitrunk-style tree. I opened it up a bit, and now am just waiting for some combination of time and inspiration to continue styling. (Actually, it's quite a bit further along than this picture shows, but I've yet to go anywhere near the back 2/3 of the tree.) Should be fun... -Old Mister 
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13-Jun-2002
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Re: Hemlock
Sounds like it to me. I repeatedly made exactly the same mistake with overly-ambitious wiring (if it looks like a juniper, and it smells like a juniper, it must [i:5798ca82ac]bend[/i:5798ca82ac] like a juniper...right?) I probably never would have figured out what was happening if I hadn't done half of this tree and half of another - and noticed that just the wired branches were dying on me. (And in particular, the smaller wired branches that I'd played with a lot before settling on a final position).
So hopefully there's still some live growth on your hemlock? They do seem resilient to pretty hard pruning and willing to bud back [i:5798ca82ac]if healthy[/i:5798ca82ac] otherwise. I agree - it'll be interesting to see where that multitrunk goes. Like literati, it's another style that I feel is somewhat beyond my current design abilities. I've been going through stacks of old magazines, trying to find likely models on which to base the tree or at least from which to take some styling suggestions. There aren't all that many that I've found, as yet. But you've got to start somewhere, and if I really screw it up I can always take it back to the main trunk. Once I get a bit further, I'll post a few pictures and see if anyone has any suggestions. Cheers, Old Mister
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