#Today a bit early for #ThickTrunkTuesday and #TinyTreeTuesday
A rescue collected from a gravel access road in a gravel pit high in the Cascades. A then stunted growth Pinus Contorta (Lodgepole Pine) that had been run over and was destined for the plow or wholesale removal as the gravel operation proceeded.
Dug up with a copious amount of native cinder around it and used nothing else for soil than that cinder…unsorted or screened to remove fines…just as was.
It has doubled in height in 3 years and gained an inch in the trunk girth. Needles are much longer now as the growing conditions much less harsh.
Time to make some decisions about future direction for this tree.
Likely into a large-ish pot to begin refinement:drop needle size back to scale.
#Bonsai #MakeGoodChoices
#Cinder #Tephra