Liquidambar – January 2022 styling

I believe this is my first experience with a truly fast growing tree. This one has put on six+ inches in 3 weeks.

4th January
26th January

I don’t want it spending all it’s time growing upwards, so it’s time for some styling.

With the last attempt I used some guy wires (well, actually raffia threads I got off some packaging or other) to hold down a branch, as a way of shaping without the risk of wires cutting into the tree. Let’s see:

Seems to have worked.

Snip snip.

Quite a lot, actually.
This grows large leaves. I wonder if bonsai + frequent defoliation will get them smaller?

The roots might be trouble… I wonder if they will un-curve?

Don’t cross the streams.

Not much wiring, mostly clip and grow. Here’s the result:

Liquidambar – January 2022 styling

That’s quite a lean, which I don’t recall noticing before. I’d better move it somewhere to get more even sun. But looking ahead to when it get’s planted, so I correct the lean?

Still looks like a slingshot 🙁

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