Windswept finger Crassula

CUTTING: 2005. Dry rooting the crassula is dead easy.



UPRIGHT: 2009. It looks OK but not very exciting.



WNDSWEPT: 2012 (today). It needs a bit more pruning and wiring to "flatten" the top but I'm satisfied with the overall design.

Scion, that is a nice looking crassula that came a long way. I have not yet seen this species in windswept form, but it looks great. I like the last photo you took and I am not sure why would you need to flatten the canopy (maybe there is something I don't see) - to me it looks right as is.

Gašper

A huge improvement! I like the new windswept design very much. You took something quite ordinary and transformed it into a way more exciting image with great movement. Good job!

Very nice. I would never have considered the species for bonsai.

BTW, I do not see a "windswept" there. I think in a windswept tree ALL of the branches would be tilted to the right by the prevailing winds. Here, the "lower" branches actually move into the "wind."

I do think it makes a nice slanting/semi-cascade, clinging-to-a-cliff style, though.

GašperG wrote:Scion, that is a nice looking crassula that came a long way. I have not yet seen this species in windswept form, but it looks great. I like the last photo you took and I am not sure why would you need to flatten the canopy (maybe there is something I don't see) - to me it looks right as is.

Gašper

mgallex wrote:A huge improvement! I like the new windswept design very much. You took something quite ordinary and transformed it into a way more exciting image with great movement. Good job!

JimLewis wrote:Very nice. I would never have considered the species for bonsai.

BTW, I do not see a "windswept" there. I think in a windswept tree ALL of the branches would be tilted to the right by the prevailing winds. Here, the "lower" branches actually move into the "wind."

I do think it makes a nice slanting/semi-cascade, clinging-to-a-cliff style, though.

Thanks to all of your kind comments on my slanting/semi-cascade, clinging-to-a-cliff style finger Crassula!


I gave it a serious look Gašper. You may be right and I might not try to flatten it after all.

The tree sort of chose its own direction, mgallex. I first wanted to make it an upright but the thing grew in a way that demanded something else.

Here in Sweden, the wind sometimes blows from Denmark but other times it blows from Russia, Jim. Perhaps I ought to call it a "cross-wind swept".