Live Oak (Quercus virginiana)
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![Live Oak Live Oak](/index.php/bonsai/templates/decayed/css/images/stories/home_page/logo/images/stories/bonsai/pdf/oak/images/oak_a_thumb.jpg) Wet sphagnum moss |
![Live Oak Live Oak](/index.php/bonsai/templates/decayed/css/images/stories/home_page/logo/images/stories/bonsai/pdf/oak/images/oak_b_thumb.jpg) 3/2005
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This project was mainly conducted to see if it was true that a broom style done correctly was very difficult. “Oh yeah, it is very difficult”. The tree is a Florida Live Oak from nursery stock. My guesstamate it’s about 15-20 years old. It was about 10’ high and the top 5’ was dead. The root spread is 5” and I chopped the top at 11” the height from the top of the pot is 28” at the time of this writing 2009. The tree is a fast grower but because of trying to get the broom style correct it has been 4 years in training and it still is not correct. If it were a formal upright it would be well on it’s way to being a bonsai. Note all the bud break on the old wood.
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![Live Oak Live Oak](/index.php/bonsai/templates/decayed/css/images/stories/home_page/logo/images/stories/bonsai/pdf/oak/images/oak_c_thumb.jpg) 4/2005
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![Live Oak Live Oak](/index.php/bonsai/templates/decayed/css/images/stories/home_page/logo/images/stories/bonsai/pdf/oak/images/oak_d_thumb.jpg) 4/15/2006 Some die back did occur.
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![Live Oak Live Oak](/index.php/bonsai/templates/decayed/css/images/stories/home_page/logo/images/stories/bonsai/pdf/oak/images/oak_f_thumb.jpg) 2007
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![Live Oak Live Oak](/index.php/bonsai/templates/decayed/css/images/stories/home_page/logo/images/stories/bonsai/pdf/oak/images/oak_g_thumb.jpg) 1/2008
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![Live Oak Live Oak](/index.php/bonsai/templates/decayed/css/images/stories/home_page/logo/images/stories/bonsai/pdf/oak/images/oak_h_thumb.jpg) 1/2008
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![Live Oak Live Oak](/index.php/bonsai/templates/decayed/css/images/stories/home_page/logo/images/stories/bonsai/pdf/oak/images/oak_j_thumb.jpg) 1/2008 1/2008 11" across
![Live Oak Live Oak](/index.php/bonsai/templates/decayed/css/images/stories/home_page/logo/images/stories/bonsai/pdf/oak/images/oak_k_thumb.jpg) 1/2008
![Live Oal Live Oal](/index.php/bonsai/templates/decayed/css/images/stories/home_page/logo/images/stories/bonsai/pdf/oak/images/oak_l_thumb.jpg)
I know it’s a cliché but the photo doesn't do the tree justice. It still needs the main branches adjusted. This is a tough one for me.
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