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Posted 8 years 8 months ago #29896
Can anyone identify the tree in the pictures
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Posted 8 years 8 months ago #29898
My best guess is a Dwarf Alberta Spruce.
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Posted 8 years 8 months ago #29905

Bonsai Bender wrote: My best guess is a Dwarf Alberta Spruce.


So not the type of Spruce for bonsai?
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Posted 8 years 8 months ago #29906
Well not exactly, it's just difficult material. The biggest problem is its upward-shooting branches, If you do any trunk chops it will take decades to develop a new leader, and it's branches are hard to tame.

www.herons.co.uk/Dwarf-Alberta-Spruce-001
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