Feathery Hop Bush: August 2024 Collection

Time to reign it in.

“They haven’t built the garden bed that can hold me, see?”

I actually planted two of these. .

Here’s the larger one. Strongly influenced by leaning to the light.

The smaller

Hmm… not great photos here:

The tops, which I think are still attached at this point.

TODO: add a photo of the potted result. Although it’s pretty uninspiring, and barely clear that it’s alive.

The larger

I started trying to dig out, and then realized it would be easier to remove the tops first.

Pitchfork for scale. Note a chunk of the top has already been removed.

Cutting back but leaving some green so that I’m not growing sticks. I did remove the flowers, because they’ll sap energy if I leave them there.

The roots are at least somewhat spreading.

Somethings going to have to happen with the main trunks eventually.

Feathery Hop Bush: August 2024 Collection — And let it grow.

The winning feature of the feathery hop bush is the mass of red flowers it grows. I’m hoping I can get that back, but there’s a lot of regrowth before then. I’ll also need to work out what I’m doing with the trunks. My current guess is that I’ll prune them to about where the right-most trunk curves back.