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bonsaiworld wrote:OWNED & TRAINED: Carole
HEIGHT: 67 cm
WIDTH: 62 cm
AGE: Approx. 14 years

IN TRAINING: About 3 years
LIVES IN: Queensland

History: In 1998 I purchased this plant in a 6” black nursery pot. I bought ten of them for the nursery and transferred them to 12” pots to grow them on. Nine of them were shaped and sold but this was the ‘worst’ one and no one wanted it. I planted it in the ground in abut 2002 and let it grow untouched until 2006. It was a tall tree by then and I wish I had taken a photo of it before it was removed, but I didn’t. The root-system was cut back so hard that it was transferred to a large box to allow the roots to regenerate.

In 2007 I used a reciprocating saw and removed all the large branches which had been cut back but not removed when the tree was dug up. I was left with just a trunk and I cut everything away to give me the movement you see today.

As we all know, they never shoot branches back exactly where we want them and many of them were removed and I started the process of growing them again. In November 2009 it was root pruned and planted in the bonsai pot in the photo. I partly wired it for this photo which is the first proper wiring it has had. I still have about four branches that I feel are in the wrong place so as the branches mature some more will be removed.