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Hi, my name is Greg Watson but just about everyone calls me Watto. The nickname comes from my sporting life and my work. I have been active in bonsai for more than 20 years, but the level of activity has been determined by how much time I had to devote. Work and sport did take me away from this fine art on and off over the years but I have always come back. I am a lover of decidious trees, both flowering and non-flowering, and I am particually interested in trees that are dug from either the wild or from gardens. I believe I should firstly ensure dug trees grow and prosper and then try to enhance the beauty that Mother Nature has given each plant. Not change them too much, but just highlight the beauty that Mother Nature has started. I have a collection that is too big (probably over 100 trees) and a passion for bonsai pots that my darling wife calls "worrying". Of course if you have trees, you need pots - its that simple. I am a member of the Goulburn Bonsai Society Inc and a member of the Ausbonsai family. I really enjoy getting out and looking at bonsai, talking about bonsai and being engulfed by the bonsai spirit. I hope you enjoy my trees.

Pomegranate

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Quite some time ago I was out walking the dog and picked up a pomegranate fruit. I took the fruit home and extracted the seeds and sowed them in the spring. A number of plants eventually grew from those seeds.

I selected three of those seedlings a couple of years later, the long skinny ones and knitted them together with the idea they would “weld” themselves together and form a small twisted trunk bonsai. Well that was about five or six years ago and every year I check to see if the “welding” process has been successful but to date there has been no success.

The trees are cute but the trunks are yet to fully develop as I had imagined. I know I could let them grow unchecked for a year or two but I wish to maintain the small branch structure and inter-nodal length. A sacrifice branch could be advantageous but the large scar let behind is not part of my plan either. So I persevere and hope.

Here is a photo of the back and front and I took the photo just to show the fruit.

The back
The front

I will keep going until I have the required result, because patience is all part of bonsai.