Burning Bush (Euonymous alatus)
Clump/Multitrunk

FEBRUARY 23, 2024. Odd. This one didn’t grow well last year at all. A lot of the buds just never opened; they just stayed there on the branches looking sort of neglected. I might have been because of the root trimming, or the soil mix, or something else entirely, but the things just never grew. I’m going to leave it alone and see what happens this year. I can take action to change the soil mix later if nothing improves this year.

MARCH 19, 2023. I repotted this one last week, keeping the angle as it was but trying to put it a little lower in the pot. I still have a lot of the tangledy fine roots showing on top of the upper side of the old root mass, so this year I need to make it a point to Dremel those down a bit. The one curve of the big root on that side looks a little like one of Nessie’s humps in Loch Ness, so I’d like to expose its connections to the trunk. That image needs to go away.

Meanwhile, the growth last year was fabulous, so I’m happy for that. I have a little more pruning to do before it completely leafs out. I looks a little unkempt right now, and not one bud has sprouted yet. Of course it’s freezing this weekend (late for that), so I’ll wait a week to even think about cutting anything.

October 30, 2022.  I must have deleted the page about this tree at one time, because it’s no longer in my Pages library. Pity. I did think about putting it back in the ground at some point, so maybe that’s what happened. I must have changed my mind. Anyway, it’s been around since about 2017, I dug it up next to the big ones next to the back fence on River Oaks, and I just repotted it in the spring of this year. I like the new angle — tilted from its previous orientation, so that there’s some directions to its flow. Beautiful color right now.

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