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Honey Locust

Honeylocust

Honeylocust is native to central and eastern United States of America. In nature it is a big and elegant tree with delicate feather-shaped leaves that get a pale yellow colour in autumn. The branches show their typical three-pointed thorns. It belongs to the leguminous family and its seeds are enclosed in long brown hulls. Its resistance to pollution makes it suitable both as urban tree and as bonsai tree in public gardens.

 

Honeylocust
 
Detail
Detail
   
Exposure
Exposure
 

Sunlight. It needs a slight winter protection to avoid the withering of the twigs.

 

Watering
Watering
 

Everyday during the vegetative season; water it less frequently in winter, but keep the soil uniformly wet.

 

Fertilizing
Fertilizing
 

Every two weeks, during the whole vegetative season.

 

Repotting
Repotting
 

In spring, in alternate years, in base mould.

 

Pruning
Pruning
 

In winter it is possible to prune the branches drastically or to remove them from the base. In spring new sprouts will grow rapidly in the old wood. The summer pinching operations consist in shortening the new shoots while they are growing.

 

Propagation
Propagation

By seeds in spring, by semi-wood cuttings in summer.

Bonsai styles

Suitable for Informal Upright, Slanting, Prostrate, Cascade, Double Trunk styles. Suitable for mean-small sizes.

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