Picea Glauca - Ideas

Get a couple more to play with after Christmas, my two cost me £3 and £5 as unsold small Christmas trees

Dave

Thanks for all the good ideas!!!

I'd definitely love to get couple of these and do a group planting. But for now I'm going to probably just re-wire this tree so all the branches are going seriously downwards... I think I'm going to wire tips of the branches to the trunk then leave it for as long as it takes to get them stay there... It should improve the tree a lot even though it has got a lot of bar branching, with lumps on the trunk etc... Maybe I'll manage to mask it. I have an really big and old conifer tree just outside my window and it's branches are alos mostly bar branches but they all sort of bend dramatically down and go almost parallel to the trunk downwards just to bend up again around the tips... That includes a lot of dead branches too, which make it look seriously majestic. I think I'm going to see where this looks takes me. Also I might get another one of these and make similar one but instead cutting out A LOT of branches (like I did with the current one already) I'd probably try to train them to go downwards and then make them into deadwood like on the tree out my window.

Well at least I've got half of a plan for it.

Please feel free to chip in though!

I think I might actually get the wiring done tonight as it was couple of good months when I last chopped branches off and since then the tree was just watered and fed and left alone. It looks really healthy now... It's probably not a big amount of shock for it anyway since the branches on those are really really really bendy.

Also here are some more pictures I've taken today:

JimLewis wrote:

ermm....

FIRST PICTURE

How about now? (Click on the link)

At least I see the link this time, but the link doesn't work for me.  

Hmm, Jim, I wonder what the problem is. I had no problem seeing the photos in the first post, and the links in this later post work fine for me. Could it be your browser? I remember a discussion about this some time ago when I was having problems. I switched from I.E. to Chrome and my problems went away. I think at the time you were using something other than either of those two?
Just a possibility...
Oliver