Eucalyptus Kruseana - From Nursery Material
Posted: January 15th, 2024, 2:20 pm
I've had this Eucalyptus Kruseana for a couple of years now I reckon. It's a garden nursery tree my brother gave to me.
Having too many projects on the go, it's been sitting on the backburner not getting much attention, growing as a straight stick. Now that I've let go of a lot of stock I have more time to start focusing on it more, as I have always thought this species has very good potential as bonsai.
Over the couple of years so far I've chopped most of the long straight section it had grown. With the new smaller branches I've wired some movement and interest. Still playing it by ear with the styling of the tree as I like to do. Thinking possibly some form of multi trunk mallee as they would grow out in the wild.
In the past couple of months I've repotted it for the first time into my gritty development mix, and a wider shallower pot to start training a better root system. It was in a tall plastic pot in a fairly heavy mix from the nursery before. It has bounced back from that nicely, and I just did a bit of pruning recently of some of the very leggy branches which has resulted in a lot of backbudding you can see in the pictures if you look closely.
The only photo I have before I started working it. Oct 2022
Jan 2024
Having too many projects on the go, it's been sitting on the backburner not getting much attention, growing as a straight stick. Now that I've let go of a lot of stock I have more time to start focusing on it more, as I have always thought this species has very good potential as bonsai.
Over the couple of years so far I've chopped most of the long straight section it had grown. With the new smaller branches I've wired some movement and interest. Still playing it by ear with the styling of the tree as I like to do. Thinking possibly some form of multi trunk mallee as they would grow out in the wild.
In the past couple of months I've repotted it for the first time into my gritty development mix, and a wider shallower pot to start training a better root system. It was in a tall plastic pot in a fairly heavy mix from the nursery before. It has bounced back from that nicely, and I just did a bit of pruning recently of some of the very leggy branches which has resulted in a lot of backbudding you can see in the pictures if you look closely.
The only photo I have before I started working it. Oct 2022
Jan 2024