Copper Beech: September 2024 repotting

Copper Beech: September 2024 repotting

by michaelruschena Posted on

It’s been… [checks blog]… 15 months since I did some light pruning with this one. And I’d completely forgotten about that. It’s traditionally been a slow grower, but I’m hoping that cleaning the roots and a perlite soil mix might help that.

This is maybe the best ground cover I’ve got. The Spanish Shawl makes a nice cover, and there’s adefinite mossiness.
I started levering the sides, and the whole thing started sliding out suspiciously easily.
…and there’s why. No wiring to keep it in place. That’s surprising. I wonder why I did that.
And that’s why the moss is there… a thick layer of muck on top of the soil mix.
I’m torn about the high root leaning down. I’m mostly leaning towards ‘a silly pretense of aerial roots inappropriate for a European tree’. But I haven’t solidified on that yet, so it stays.
The old soil mix, which seems to have a good helping of diatomous-clay. It held the water well enough, but probably cramped the roots too much.
Back into the pot.
Copper Beech: September 2024 repotting
The pot is actually quite deep, and I didn’t want to completely fill it with the soil mix (to encourage the roots to stay low). I filled in the difference with some orchard bark as a cover. It might be a bit too close to the bark of this beech, but I rather like the effect. Let’s see how it grows.
And done.
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