Hawthorn 10 For £10

rowan57

Hi, i have a garden centre near me that is selling bundles of hedging plants, 10 for £10. My favourite is hawthorn and i was wondering, these bundles are fairly tight and if i left them like that for a time would they become one tree, or all join together? i have been interested in this option since seeing a website where a guy wrapped lots of trident maple seedlings i think, around a base, i didnt particularly like the end result but i thought it could have looked quite good just without the wooden form, using lots of trees to form a large formal upright type tree. sorry for the slightly hazy idea

any ideas/advice etc.?
Thanks
Rowan

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Treebeard

Hi Rowan,

Yes this it quite acceptable to do, the end result is a clump style bonsai, with lots of trunks all coming from the same place. The placement in the garden centre bundles probably would not be ideal, you would more than likely need to re-arrange them to give a pleasing silhouette.

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Chris.

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Bonsainut

For all you lurkers he's referencing...

http://www.dugzbonsai.com/

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Treebeard

I should clarify that my suggestion was for tying and eventually fusing at the bases only, with the trunks all seperate further up.

Regards,

Chris

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rowan57

Ok thankyou, yes i hadnt thought of having to rearrange the bundles but it does sound like a good idea

Thanks Bonsainut, i couldnt remember the site having clicked a link once then never again

Cheers for the help, i will probably go out and get the bundle this weekend.

Thanks
Rowan

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Treebeard

Rowan, While you are at the garden centre, have a look on those tables where they have piles of reduced books for the book "Create your own Bonsai" by Ken Norman. It has lots of starter projects in it, in particluar there is a clump style done with a bundle of Fagus sylvatica purpurea hedging material. Might be worth a look for you.

Regards,

Chris.

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Jonny D

Rowan, as well as the refence chris has given you try to check out bonsai life histories by david prescott, in that he fuses together trident maple saplings over a rock all the way up until they are one tree! He also shows you the process.

Jonny.

thejimmyrigger

Do you think he could speed the fusing process up by treating them as a graft? You know, by removing the bark on parts of the trunk that would touch? Might this work?
jim

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rowan57

oh right cheers Johnny, btw sorry i didnt make it to the show last weekend we went to a garden centre instead and after that was revising realll hard

Jim, i dont know about that, maybe you could try it?

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