Hi I’m Ben.
Plant collector and Bonsai Guy from the Seattle area. In this Video:
We follow the 4 year progression of a couple of nursery stock Strawberry Trees aka Arbutus Unedo as I turn into bonsai.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:00 February 2019 – 1st cut
2:58 May 2019 Update
3:55 October 2020 update – Flowers
4:10 November 2021 Update – Fruit and taste test
5:00 March 2022 – Update – another cut back
7:52 July 2022 Update – another pruning
14:20 March 2023 Update – repot into bonsai pot
16:40 Final thoughts
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9 Comments
In my country (Italy) we call it "Corbezzolo"
Daggum, Ben! Some fantastic work with these! They came a looong way in 4-5 years, brother.
You might need to buy your neighbors out and take over their yard. Daggum, that was a lot of trees covering your yard during the growing season!!
I love the way it's progressing. Thanks for sharing!
Nice progression! I’m down in Tacoma and found strawberry trees much easier to bonsai than kinnikinnick and manzanita. Even though I still grow them regardless without much issue. Thanks for the multi year project! 🤘
Great stuff as always Ben.
This is such a great video! Lots of work over the years and I can imagine that it takes patience to put a video like this together. Very nice to see though!! I might try and find myself a tree like this. Thank you!
Great looking tree , coming along nicely.
Great looking trees 👍
Those are really cool! I hadn’t known what a strawberry tree looked like before now. Definitely looks more like a lychee. Great trunks and really nice trees.