Progression thread : Allocasuarina torulosa 20
I Purchased this fantastic material from Leong at Bonsai South on 16th October 2014
Cost $30
This was the first Casuarina I bought from Bonsai South. Leong had so many great bases of Casuarina back then.
Unfortunately I didn't have a lot of sun for these Casuarina in the first year and a half, but soon after they were exposed to strong levels of sun, they grew wonderfully.
This photo was taken 16.10.2014
This photo was taken 30.04.2015
This photo was taken 17.02.2016 (placed into a large 12inch orchid pot)
This photo was taken 17.08.2016
This photo was taken 17.03.2017
Allocasuarina torulosa 20
- Rory
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Allocasuarina torulosa 20
Rory
I style Bonsai naturally, just as they would appear in the wild.
Central Coast, NSW
Bonsai: Casuarina Leptospermum Banksia Phebalium Baeckea Melalueca Ficus
Growing Australian natives as Bonsai: viewtopic.php?p=289480#p289480
Buying and repotting Native nursery material: viewtopic.php?f=78&t=30724
Growing tips for Casuarina as Bonsai: viewtopic.php?p=244995#p244995
How to reduce moss from the trunk without damaging the bark: viewtopic.php?p=295227#p295227
I style Bonsai naturally, just as they would appear in the wild.
Central Coast, NSW
Bonsai: Casuarina Leptospermum Banksia Phebalium Baeckea Melalueca Ficus
Growing Australian natives as Bonsai: viewtopic.php?p=289480#p289480
Buying and repotting Native nursery material: viewtopic.php?f=78&t=30724
Growing tips for Casuarina as Bonsai: viewtopic.php?p=244995#p244995
How to reduce moss from the trunk without damaging the bark: viewtopic.php?p=295227#p295227
- melbrackstone
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Re: Allocasuarina torulosa 20
I bought some tube stock after seeing your casuarina enthusiasm last year....they have a long way to go before they have trunks like this, but I'm hoping to get something worthwhile in my lifetime. Thanks again for the inspiration Rory.
- Rory
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Re: Allocasuarina torulosa 20
Hi mel,melbrackstone wrote:I bought some tube stock after seeing your casuarina enthusiasm last year....they have a long way to go before they have trunks like this, but I'm hoping to get something worthwhile in my lifetime. Thanks again for the inspiration Rory.
Most of the tall growing casuarina trees are very fast growers so you should have very thick stock in a few years if you ground grow them, or leave the pots on the ground like I do to grow into the ground. The casuarina shrubs I've grown are so painfully slow I just discarded them.
I remember wanting them ever since reading about them in Dorothy koreshoffs little book - bonsai with Australian natives.
But in the 90s I never found a nursery that grew them until I stumbled across the state forest nursery once I learnt how to drive. Stevens casuarina passion was what really hooked me after that too. I adored the casuarinas he was producing and wanted to grow a tone of them. I originally tried pines in the early 90s but soon realized they are hard to grow and are prone to so many problems that my interest in them waned. That was when I steered heavily into native material and I've never looked back.
Rory
I style Bonsai naturally, just as they would appear in the wild.
Central Coast, NSW
Bonsai: Casuarina Leptospermum Banksia Phebalium Baeckea Melalueca Ficus
Growing Australian natives as Bonsai: viewtopic.php?p=289480#p289480
Buying and repotting Native nursery material: viewtopic.php?f=78&t=30724
Growing tips for Casuarina as Bonsai: viewtopic.php?p=244995#p244995
How to reduce moss from the trunk without damaging the bark: viewtopic.php?p=295227#p295227
I style Bonsai naturally, just as they would appear in the wild.
Central Coast, NSW
Bonsai: Casuarina Leptospermum Banksia Phebalium Baeckea Melalueca Ficus
Growing Australian natives as Bonsai: viewtopic.php?p=289480#p289480
Buying and repotting Native nursery material: viewtopic.php?f=78&t=30724
Growing tips for Casuarina as Bonsai: viewtopic.php?p=244995#p244995
How to reduce moss from the trunk without damaging the bark: viewtopic.php?p=295227#p295227
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Re: Allocasuarina torulosa 20
Rory,
Great tree mate! Such good growth and development of the trunk in under 3 years. Wow. I will now be looking for a Casuarina!
viniv
Great tree mate! Such good growth and development of the trunk in under 3 years. Wow. I will now be looking for a Casuarina!
viniv