Cutting propogation

And my small collection of cuttings taken this spring. First real try at taking cuttings, never did any when I was "active" previously.

Lots of Quince cuttings from a garden shrub which has beautiful peach/pink flowers in early spring, a few acers  from my original tree and a pink flowering hawthorn collected from the "wild" !

Plan to also take some larger hardwood cuttings from the quince over winter.

Flowering Cherry 1

My last purchase for now. It's an ornamental shrub anyway  Flowering Cherry ("Prunus Kojo-no-mai") and was in full flower at the nursery, so I couldn't resist a bit of instant gratification! Bought a deep but cheap pot to go with it.

Once the flowers had dropped it's been pruned back and I'll just let it grow wildly for a couple of years. Enjoy the flowers and then see where it goes after that.

Just some mild training in the meantime as I don't really know what branches i'll keep or lose at this stage.

Privet 1

Another internet purchase, an "indoor" bonsai. No such thing really, but it seems to do OK. Needs to be at the window to get enough light, but positioned it away from light for a while to get some long growth, which will now hopefully harden off and balance out the look of the tree in the longer term.

This is how it looked when I bought it. Pretty shapeless, but it has potential. Not really a serious long term tree, but again, for a bit of fun.

Spruce 1

My first internet purchase, it was listed as a Scots pine, but I only paid 6.00 for it. Having a bit of fun with some more extreme shaping than I used to do. It's only very small, not sure of it's long term future, but it's a bit of fun for now.

This is how it looked on eBay when I bought it! Slight change! The blue pot is from my "original" collection.  A bit deep though was never that keen!!

Cotoneaster 1

I had a Cascade style Cotoneaster in my original collection, but managed to kill it. I still have the pot and want to recreate it. This was bought from a local nursery and happens to have twin trunks. not sure of the final shpe so I am growing it all for now, it needs to gain some weight also!

Hence it is very scrappy in it's styling at the moment, but should come good in a few years, as long as I dont kill this one!

Berberis 1

Yet another bargain bin item, from the same nursery a few weeks later. It looked pretty much dead, but I took a gamble as it had quite a nice looking trunk peeking through all of the unruly growth. The plant was quite raised from it's root structure also, I quite like the effect, and could plant it over a rock in the future. Bit of wire work and thinning of branches has it looking quite nice already. Needs a proper pot.

Cedar 1

Deodara Cedar - had one of these before, wasnt really sure what I was going to do with it and just had a brain wave a couple of weeks ago. Kind of bungin-gi style, but not quite. Will need refiing and probably growing on a bit.

This one was also bought from the bargain bin at the same time as the White Pine. Not sure whether this one will go anywhere. Small jin at the bottom where there were some lower branches that I decided weren't needed with the style I had in mind.