nabil
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Rosemary bonsai styling help needed

Dears

I just got an old rosemary.it was 1.5 meters tall 5 feet

I chopped it to one foot. And potted it in clay pot

please help in styling it, what to remove from branches
And what style it might become.

One of thing am thinking is wind drift. As u can see in the pic
Or what else?
As u know the wood is very hard to bend
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imafan26
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Location: Hawaii, zone 12a 587 ft elev.

I would have made topiary instead with such an old plant. You will have to probably do more trimming and filing of some of the branches. The trunk is straight and all of the branches need to grow only in one direction. Unless you plan to grow this rosemary on its side for a while, it is the only way I know to do that. Rosemary naturally grows upright. Rosemary would probably make a good formal or informal upright but the branches will need to be thinned more and I would have left the leader a little higher and pruned more pyrimidal and less rounded. The trunk has a nice twisted structure, but I have never tried to bend branches that old and stiff. I might be possible to bring them down a little with weights and tension wires, but I don't know how much.



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