Potentilla flowering

A potentilla i dug up from garden a few years ago. It was half dead and dug up in the middle of a hot summer so I'm pleased how it has come on. Looked good today in flower so i thought i would post a photo.

O yes O yes

Wooooooooooooooo

Great Neil

Regards Chris

Is that a Dan Butler pot?

Regards Chris

Thanks Chris for the comment,much appreciated. The pot is a Tony Remington. I was only saying to my wife today that i want to get to see you, its just finding the right weekend. I either see that your at a show or i have something on. We have the hay festival here for two weekends but after that I'm coming down .

That could be the dragon show at the game fair, come down and camp for the weekend!

There are still two Pine from Anthony waiting for you, they are both good but one is well just wait and see.

Regards Chris

Looking forward to seeing the pines, Ill let you know about the camping

SMITTY,,Really really nice tree!! love the flowers.. take care john

I like the elegance it has!

I love potentilla, and this one is really enchanting Neil.

(But I think I'd put it in a simpler pot if it were mine!)

Thanks John ,Sakaki and Russel.
I thought the pot went well with the trunk. I did have a more plain one to pot it into at first but went with this one. The plain one was wider and shallower.

Nice tree, but why haven't you wired the branches ? You can bend these into any shape you want.

davtree wrote:Nice tree, but why haven't you wired the branches ? You can bend these into any shape you want.

It was cut back at the beginning of the year and let grow freely to flower now. I'm prefering to let things grow how they want to and clip and grow and let then have a more natural shape.

The thing is you say you can bend them into any shape you want'. That is the shape i want so really there is no need for wiring .
What are you suggesting ,style it more like a bonsai with pads.

Smithy wrote: ... I'm prefering to let things grow how they want to and clip and grow and let then have a more natural shape. ... That is the shape i want so really there is no need for wiring .
What are you suggesting, style it more like a bonsai with pads.

I'm with you on that - and that is from one who would normally wire and style. Potentilla is one of the few trees that I have let just do their own thing and gone for the clip and grow method. They pop new growth out so freely that this is easy to do. I wont hijack Smithy's thread by posting mine here, but I will put a couple into my Gallery. They haven't flowered yet as we are still two or three weeks behind more southern parts of the UK up here.

Lovely tree and pot Smitty! How long do the flowers last?
Todd

No, I dont mean style it with pads. If you want a naturalistic style, you could wire the branches into some curves. I like the tree, There is just too many long straight branches IMO.

I would suggest you turn the tree regularly so the growth & flowers will face in all directions. In North America almost all potentillas have yellow flowers.
Iris

That's funny - where I live you can see them in yellow, white, pink, lavender, and orange. I think that the yellow is the form of the original wild type, which comes from China. The white and yellow are known to be more vigorous than the fancy colors.

Todd Ellis wrote:Lovely tree and pot Smitty! How long do the flowers last?
Todd

thanks Todd
The flowers have been going for a couple of weeks now and there are plenty still to come out.I'll let you know when it finishes.

Nice tree! I like the elegant, flowing trunk line and the base is very interesting.

I was cleaning and working on the deadwood today.













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I, going to shorten the top in the spring to grow again.

Really nice work Smithy; I like it!

How well does the deadwood hold up on this species? Are you having to treat it any different from, for example, evergreen species?

Love this tree!!! Great job!!!!

Sam

Very nice!

Orion wrote:Really nice work Smithy; I like it!

How well does the deadwood hold up on this species? Are you having to treat it any different from, for example, evergreen species?

Im not sure really and i'm sure there are others on the forum with older ones than this one. I think the dead near the soil surface will rot quick . This was quite rotten at the back when i got it. I was surprised when i went to clean this up lastnight how hard the dead wood was . I have been putting this on

http://www.kaizenbonsai.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=95&products_id=2483

Stunning!!! love the deadwood