Advanced Grade 7 Lantana

This term the lesson is cloud and disc techniques, so I have chosen to use a Lantana, which is listed as a noxious weed here in NSW, but will make a great penjing as the flowers are small and the leaves reduce in size well.

Lantana bush dig, from Wisemans Ferry about 18 months ago.

It has been in a grow box until June 2012, ready to start work.

Defoliated to show the structure.

I have done some breaching to remove the straightness of a couple of the branches.

       Detail of the breach, got good movement from a once straight branch.

Finished and potted up and already putting on new growth which will fill the framework of skewers to form layers. Another few months and it will look more like a tree.