Nandina shaping
- Ivan Mann
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I have a nandina with very nice trunk movement but has a typical compound leaves, which don't seem to want to shrink down. The top appears like a canopy but with compound leaves sticking out at funny angles. If I cut half the compound leaf off the lower half looks like a stub that stops abruptly.
There is probably the same problem with any compound leaf, so there must be an acceptable solution.
Ideas?
There is probably the same problem with any compound leaf, so there must be an acceptable solution.
Ideas?
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Hey Ivann, I have quite a few compound leaves' trees here, for some of them, that have big leaves like Delonix Regia, Jacs. and other unusual species, I always aim for big trees, but I still amazed on how those get a lot smaller when on the pot...
I try to make smaller ones with more suitable compound leafed trees... Like Brazilian Rain Trees, Calliandras that are a lot smaller than the others I mentioned... And I even have an experimental small Mimosa Bimucronata, which also seems to have very suitable leaf size/reducing........
Can you share a picture?
Cuz I've seen people reducing the compound leaves by cutting on it's internodes... I don't know how better would it look, but it works.
Like in these:
I try to make smaller ones with more suitable compound leafed trees... Like Brazilian Rain Trees, Calliandras that are a lot smaller than the others I mentioned... And I even have an experimental small Mimosa Bimucronata, which also seems to have very suitable leaf size/reducing........
Can you share a picture?
Cuz I've seen people reducing the compound leaves by cutting on it's internodes... I don't know how better would it look, but it works.
Like in these:
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Picture, of course.
Here it is. Cutting any part of the compound leaf would leave a triangular hole. I just don't see anything to do except take out the whole compound leaf.
Here it is. Cutting any part of the compound leaf would leave a triangular hole. I just don't see anything to do except take out the whole compound leaf.
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