Coastal Rosemary Viable Bonsai Species?

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Coastal Rosemary Viable Bonsai Species?

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Hi guys just wondering if anyone has experience with Coastal Rosemary?

I have the chance to collect a couple from a garden but wasn't sure if they make a good bonsai species?

I know spring will be better for collection but the owner will be ripping them up if I don't collect now.

Main question, am I wasting my time? I am yet to check them out in person.

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Westringea is not reliable for back budding on bare wood so you'll need to have some low shoots to ensure they will grow.
There's a couple that I trim regularly into hedges and rounded shrubs so they can cope with trimming new shoots.
I have not transplanted any yet so can't offer anything on how they cope with cutting roots.
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Thanks for the bit of information​ that you had Neil.

I'm going down to check them out tomorrow. Fingers crossed they have good trunks.

Hopefully I can get a good root mass although thinking now I may not have any pots big enough.

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By reputation their roots are dodgy with repotting and digging up, but I have no personal experience. Let us know how they go. Search on the site - there's been no great joy.

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I dug the trees today. All still in their original soil just potted up on site.

They are larger than I thought for my small courtyard.

I'll probably have to reduce the foliage further for there survival, but running out of time right now.

Here's a couple of quick photos. I couldn't get Crumpet out of the way haha.

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nice
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Nice pearcy, little crumpet just wanted a bit of attention too hehe


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They look viable. I can see lots of foliage close to the trunks so, if they survive the transplant, you should be able to prune back and get good regrowth.
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Have you seen this

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hao4nPHqe4Y

Some nice trees in it and a bit of a description of care.
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dansai wrote:Have you seen this

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hao4nPHqe4Y

Some nice trees in it and a bit of a description of care.
A lot of the trees in the video aren't westringa . Most of them are are Rosemary a couple of them are actually Watto's trees that he has posted on here and the dead wood one is a juniper . Not that it matters there is great inspiration in there . Nice score Pearcy .
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I thought as much. Was a bit hard to be certain on my phone. I think it is a uk based post too, so don't know how reliable or relevant the cultural information is either
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Thanks for the link Dansai. Was good to get some ideas.

I'm considering bare rooting one to get it into a free draining mix before winter, thoughts? The current soil that it was collected from appears it will stay wet far too long for a Melbourne winter.

When winter does come and if they are left in their current soil, I may try leaving one undercover and another fully exposed.

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The colanders you have them in should help alleviate the moisture issue I think.
Bare rooting will probably not hurt any more than the collecting has done if you don't cut roots any further. My experience with natives indicates that the ones I have tried do nor respond well to root pruning in cooler weather but you have enough of these to do some trials with other options.
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I have not had the best of luck repotting them but the leaves reduce even more. It's a neat plant. I'm following with interest for more tips.
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Looks like the transplant of these wasn't to any detriment to the tree, these guys seem to be throwing buds like crazy.

I was originally going to leave them to regain vigour then chop back harder at spring but now I'm not too sure if I need to wait. Maybe I should consider cutting at least 1 of them right back now?

All are still in there original garden mix that they were lifted in. I plan to also repot at spring.

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