Kunzea ambigua ‘groovster’
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Kunzea ambigua ‘groovster’
Been working a lot of Kunzea ambigua lately, this time of year is prime for maximum flexibility, patching damage and setting up strong vascular solidarity, so great time for heavy styling, pruning, and repotting, though not at the same time.
This tree is the largest and possibly the best kunzea I’ve collected. It was collected in the winter of 2015 and recovered for 2 years before potting into a small container in the spring of 2017. It was how ready for styling I Wich involved a heavy bend to a 2 inch thick structural piece in the upper part of the tree, the branch supports all the foliage on the tree and had to be controllably broken to move it in place. The work was performed about a month ago and the tree has successfully flushed out in new growth.
With the quick positive recovery I may repot to the new angle in the late winter of this year if not though I will wait until this time next year!
This tree is the largest and possibly the best kunzea I’ve collected. It was collected in the winter of 2015 and recovered for 2 years before potting into a small container in the spring of 2017. It was how ready for styling I Wich involved a heavy bend to a 2 inch thick structural piece in the upper part of the tree, the branch supports all the foliage on the tree and had to be controllably broken to move it in place. The work was performed about a month ago and the tree has successfully flushed out in new growth.
With the quick positive recovery I may repot to the new angle in the late winter of this year if not though I will wait until this time next year!
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Re: Kunzea ambigua ‘groovster’
Nice result Hugh ,going to be one special tree. What a great species
Have to agree with you , now has to be the optimum time to work on them. Have spent the last couple of nights wiring up a very curly one into a Penjing style. Trying for something different. Keen to know about the process of braking the branch as they can be pretty tough once they get a bit of size.
Cheers John.
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Cheers John.
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Re: Kunzea ambigua ‘groovster’
Hey mateKeep Calm and Ramify wrote:Some nice movement achieved Hugh. What's the height measurement?
Yeah it’s about 85cm in height and nearly 100 cm wide
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Re: Kunzea ambigua ‘groovster’
i just realised how terrible the photo quality was, this one will be a bit better
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Re: Kunzea ambigua ‘groovster’
Wow, Its much wider than what it looks in the pic's. - Thanks again for taking the time to share your work.hugh grant wrote:Hey mateKeep Calm and Ramify wrote:Some nice movement achieved Hugh. What's the height measurement?
Yeah it’s about 85cm in height and nearly 100 cm wide
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I’ve mage the Width account form the farthest point of the basal deadwood on the right to the end f the foliage on the left.Keep Calm and Ramify wrote:Wow, Its much wider than what it looks in the pic's. - Thanks again for taking the time to share your work.hugh grant wrote:Hey mateKeep Calm and Ramify wrote:Some nice movement achieved Hugh. What's the height measurement?
Yeah it’s about 85cm in height and nearly 100 cm wide
Cheee Johnboom64 wrote:Nice result Hugh ,going to be one special tree. What a great speciesHave to agree with you , now has to be the optimum time to work on them. Have spent the last couple of nights wiring up a very curly one into a Penjing style. Trying for something different. Keen to know about the process of braking the branch as they can be pretty tough once they get a bit of size.
Cheers John.
Would love to see this tree you speak of !!
I’ll get some images of the section I refer to
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Re: Kunzea ambigua ‘groovster’
excellence----- in similar pot,can you achieve in one repot -(with aus natives), that planting angle ? or over multiple repots
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Yeah when I repot this time coming it will easily go straight in at the new angle. I’ll document the process when I do. Already have an interesting pot picked out !tgward wrote:excellence----- in similar pot,can you achieve in one repot -(with aus natives), that planting angle ? or over multiple repots
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