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You mentioned the other day that you have wired several trees, and you have mentioned before spreading work like that over the winter, when we usually think of that as being done at the beginning of the growing season.

Question: do you consider species when you are thinking about wiring during the winter?

I have quite a few that are due serious wiring and shaping. I would rather spend a lot of time considering each one, which would be possible if I start now, but would be difficult if I have to cram them all in to a short start of growing season. There are two different elm species, American sugar maple, Japanese red maple, cherry, hackberry, dwarf spruce, azaleas, pear, and olive. I may have missed one. Root work, I think, should wait until the start of growing season.

This is harder this year than previously because we just lost spring break so I do not have the seek in early March I used to have.

Maples I wire at leaf drop. Mainly because the branches are still flexible and do not break when you touch them. I am now wiring and pruning carpinus spp. Larch is mid-winter. Junipers when I feel like it.

Last year I did extensive wiring of my olives in fall. But.. They were not happy in summer. Could have been the winter repotting too.

Azalea I only have 1. I do not like to wire it. So .. I do not anymore.

Beech, zelkova, syringia all have been wired, pruned and repotted the last 2 weeks.

So.. not, I do not really keep track of species. Some are iffy with wireing (carpinus, japanese maple, pomegranate) and those I try to do early in fall to reduce the risk of branches dying. But.. I am late with my carpinus

Note: I do not get cold winters. Most winters temp does not drop below -5 (Although I have seen -20 since we moved here). With nights that get colder, I place freshly wired trees in a shed.

Healthy trees I do not worry about repotting timing too much either, to be honest.

and in November I did things like this:



I am halfway through repotting for the year.
I have a larger trident which I want to do a proper rootsorting & hammering on a board. This is for after feb. But it has been trimmed and wired last month. And I am planning some root over rock. Also for March. And my Taxus and Olives will also wait untill after the last real frost, as they are more sensitive to cold weather.

leatherback wrote:
Note: I do not get cold winters. Most winters temp does not drop below -5 (Although I have seen -20 since we moved here). With nights that get colder, I place freshly wired trees in a shed.

Note: a friend slightly younger than me (he just turned 70) remembers skating all winter on the canals in Amsterdam. He says it has been too warm lately, 1990s until now.

Ivan Mann wrote:

leatherback wrote:
Note: I do not get cold winters. Most winters temp does not drop below -5 (Although I have seen -20 since we moved here). With nights that get colder, I place freshly wired trees in a shed.

Note: a friend slightly younger than me (he just turned 70) remembers skating all winter on the canals in Amsterdam. He says it has been too warm lately, 1990s until now.

Yeah, I grew up not far from Amsterdam. I used to play on the ice every winter, in my memories. Certainly, there were some large canals nearby where thousands of people would come to go skating, and the bigger lakes near reeuwijk would freeze over and we would do day-long skating trips over them.

We have not had frost like that for several years.

And of course, a good indication is the 11-cities skating tour.
Just look at the years it took place:
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