Korean Boxwood second styling

Hello Bob...don't worry about my parade...it doesn't matter to me one way or the other, really. And thank you for the compliment. I don't know--I'm not questioning you, I'm just saying that I truly don't know--if we can tell much from the leaf size, because all of my leaves are in various stages of reduction, and I don't know if the size of your leaves has been affected by your years of cultivation, but the shape looks different than yours, as you say. Thanks for posting the photo. I may post some close-up photos of my leaves later, too, and maybe one of you can confirm what I have.

"Korean" boxwood...



"Japanese" boxwood...

One of nices looking boxwoods i've seen. Thanks for sharing.

Your boxwood is coming along very nicely.

I can see you made good progress with it over the summer.

Regards,
Paul

Brian and Paul - thanks very much for your compliments. Paul, we'll see if it's ready for your pot in the Spring or not. I might decide to keep the guy wires (anchored to the nursery pot) in place for a while longer, but I can't wait to see how it looks in the pot. I think it has developed fairly quickly over the summer--I'm amazed at how quickly you can develop boxwood and reduce the leaves, and I'm surprised that it isn't used for bonsai more often. I believe you have told me that you are a boxwood fan, right?

Russell - thank you for posting the photos. Definitely my leaves don't have that indentation at the tip that the Korean box has in your photos. Then again, Bob's Korean box leaves don't have those indentations, either! So we've solved that, then. Sort of. This is nearly as fun as the debate we've had over on my Niigata yew thread.

jersanct wrote:Brian and Paul - thanks very much for your compliments. Paul, we'll see if it's ready for your pot in the Spring or not. I might decide to keep the guy wires (anchored to the nursery pot) in place for a while longer, but I can't wait to see how it looks in the pot. I think it has developed fairly quickly over the summer--I'm amazed at how quickly you can develop boxwood and reduce the leaves, and I'm surprised that it isn't used for bonsai more often. I believe you have told me that you are a boxwood fan, right?

Russell - thank you for posting the photos. Definitely my leaves don't have that indentation at the tip that the Korean box has in your photos. Then again, Bob's Korean box leaves don't have those indentations, either! So we've solved that, then. Sort of. This is nearly as fun as the debate we've had over on my Niigata yew thread.

Maybe we have north and south Korean varieties.....

Bob Pressler wrote:Maybe we have north and south Korean varieties.....:)

I nominate Bob for November Comment of the Month.