I was on holiday in Northern NSW and decided to drive across the border and visit Steve's nursery, Australian Bonsai Grower, this week.
I was so impressed that I thought to give him a shout out on this old thread.
The nursery is located on a very large rural block with an extensive amount of stock at all stages.
He had masses of young Bougs, as well as JBP's. Re the JBP's - he had rows and rows of juvenile seedling stock, as well as at least three long rows of JBP's with a good few years on them (i.e. trunk base and higher up nicely developed, aged bark, branches kept tight in etc) - there must have been 50-100 of them easily.
He had the best selection of Swamp Cypress I have ever seen, from cuttings to "teens", to advanced trunk stock (i.e. likely as big as you have ever seen elsewhere, in large styro boxes - 1-2 man job lifting them), plus some Godzilla sized ones (I kid you not - you would need an engine block frame or small crane to lift them).
Down the back he had row and rows and rows and rows of very advanced stock in large 32 litre pots and bags - essentially ready for styling. There were Junipers, JBP, Yews, Box, Bougs, Maples and a bunch of really, really nice small leafed figs, my favourite being the one below (although no purchase this time around).
He also had a large selection of pre-trained bonsai and advanced bonsai and a reasonable (although not massive) selection of pots.
I had a great time there, even in the pouring rain. The quality of the stock was such that I even found myself looking at species that had never piqued my interest before.
Finally, he has some really amazing specimen stock, various big old lichen covered figs and very large Bougs and some truly massive (i.e. human-sized) Swampies.
Hard to convey without pics (but it really was pouring, so hard to manage a phone and umbrella...) - but I really do recommend a trip.
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