Honey Locust

ozzerbon

Hello folks,

Has anyone tried to bonsai a Honey locust?, the one pictured was sent to me from Kansas, U.S.A., the moss is two of our local varieties, the soil is 100% akadama.

As I have never seen one I know absolutely nothing about it, apart from the scant information I've picked up in Google, what I should really like to know is about it's back-budding potentials, or in fact anything else that you might wish to include.

Nigel

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FredL

I have stayed away from Honey Locust because of its large, doubly compound leaves and its large, out-of-scale thorns and seed pods. They are easy enough to find in this area, Along with Black Locust, which exhibits these charactaristics to a lesser extent.

Of course, similar things might be said of Wisteria, with which it shares the large, beautiful blossoms that many Legumes show in the Spring. Perhaps someone will surprise us with a really beautiful Honey Locust bonsai, much as I was surprized recently by a remarkably well done Mimosa bonsai from, I think, Puerto Rica.

Fred