| This was my first collected tree, and I've had it for about twenty years. Like so many trees, I was unsure what to do with it at first, tending to leave it and see what developed.
It's still a bit of a 'stick', having little taper to the trunk, however pruning the top while allowing the lower branches to grow on, is having a benificial effect on it. The tree is shown in winter, and in common with all immature beech, it retains the dead leaves over winter and as the new growth opens the old leaves drop off. The tree is approx 45cm tall, by 35 cm wide. |
 Photo 2000 |
Here we see the tree developing. The far left image shows the tree soon after collection, in the early 1980's. The middle picture shows an early stage, where in an effort to reduce the height, I'd removed the top of the tree, intending to develop the small branch to the left as a new top.
The small branch, low down on the left side was grown on to become the 1st major branch. The last picture illustrates the tree as it is now (2001).
(c) Allen. C. Roffey 10:06 11/11/2007