Crataegus Bonsai

Crataegus species are shrubs or small trees mostly growing to 5 15 m 16 49 ft tall with small pome fruit and usually thorny branches.
Crataegus bonsai. With small leaves craggy bark fine twigging flowers fruit and the possibility of some autumn colour in warm years english hawthorn is a spectacular species for bonsai and one of the finest deciduous trees for bonsai cultivation in the world. Hawthorn crataegus monogyna hawthorn progression by heike van gunst the hawthorn is plant that grows like a shrub in most cases and it takes many years to develop thick trunks. The problem it is trying to correct frost damage from still soft shoots is more often a mis timed pruning in the summer. Like all chapters in bonsai heresy chapter 5 is ironically titled though this one is the.
56 myths exposed using science and tradition and expand on it to investigate dangling questions. This is the first in a series of blog posts to take a chapter from bonsai heresy. The wild tree has white flowers and red fruit. The leaves are alternative simple or lobed and mid to dark green.
This is easiest to see in deciduous trees which may be pruned in. Some species produce good autumn colour turning yellow red or orange. For bonsai it has a number of good characteristics. Crataegus is a genus of 200 or more species of usually spiny deciduous occasionally semi evergreen small trees and shrubs occurring in woodland and scrub in northern temperate regions of the world.
Also study in the seasonals assumes primarily working on the bonsai here at crataegus bonsai. Advanced students may bring their own trees in private sessions or if pre approved for the seasonals. Chapter 25 of bonsai heresy is about the mistaken notions of avoiding nitrogen in our fall fertilizing by using 0 10 10. The distribution is vast spreading from america in the west through europe and on.
But the real benefit from studying on the teacher s trees is that the information can then be brought back to the trees at home and you get to reapply what was learned.