I checked my collected ash tree last night and found 3 small new leaves already! A very good sign indeed. In fact I have never had a yamadori tree which has just been collected to sprout new leaves so quickly, it usually takes quite a while to recover. Maybe it’s to do with the fact that it spent probably only 15 minutes out of the soil and the roots were throughly wrapped up. Having said that I did have to cut off quite a lot of large roots to extract it from the earth. I was expecting to wait at least a couple of weeks for new growth
Ash trees seem to be very hardy when it comes to change. I am starting to like them more and more. The only problem is that you need a quite large tree to make them look right as bonsai.
I am now excited about the future of it. It has perfectly spaced roots which I plan to leave exposed in the pot to show the nebari to its full extent. I’ve aged it at about 10 years old.
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