文档介绍：Getting up early to Text and illustrations: Pieter den Uden
ask the nursery- Photography: Bonsai Europe Studio
man if I can cut
some shoots for
my scions from his
hawthorn stock
Grafting red hawthorn
It’s about eleven years since I was on the
search for red flowering hawthorn
(Crataegus oxyacantha). Most of the trees I
found, though, were unsuitable as bonsai
because they had a poor root base, and
only high branches on the trunk, which also
had no movement in it — not a favourable
scenario. So I decided to grow them
myself, just the way I wanted
ecause of my education in horticulture, I had some
Bknowledge of the art of grafting. First of all I graft-
ed with red flowering hawthorn but, later on, I grafted
on other deciduous and coniferous species, too. By
experimenting and learning from experts, I managed to
improve my technique. I will show you how I graft
with hawthorns.
Grafting is to place a freshly cut part of a plant in bud
(the scion) directly on to a freshly cut trunk with a root
ball (rootstock). The aim is to encourage both to grow
together as a single plant. There are different methods
of grafting for deciduous trees, but the main goal is
that you have a rootstock and a matching scion. The
method demonstrated here is the one I use for grafting
hawthorn, but it can be implemented for almost any
deciduous tree.
Why graft