AusBonsai

Hi all,
Enjoying the collection so far..
Here are a couple of my 'will be/in development' shohin bonsai - Ficus rubignosa (25cm) It's a fraction taller at the moment, needs a clean up and ramification starting this year. Banksia integrifolia (25cm) Just potted last month, needs some thickening but I'm happy with it in general at the moment. Casuarina sp. (27cm - does that mean it is Kifu?) Just had a trim, still a long way to go but it's thickening nice and quick.
That's about it for recent photos I think
Cheers

some nice starts there aswell Bonscythe

I have a little concern with your banksia though, it is showing some obvious reverse taper at the base just above the roots, have you thought about creating a new root system above this to fix the prob? i cant see it being to hard, toothpick method would be perfect for it, if you did the tooth pick method you wouldnt have to worry to much as the roots would end up covering over it all

good work

well this is my little pj fig
18cm soil to top, 8cm across at soil level cheers
Strawbs

after looking at all the bonsai. im kinda wish mine look like that

Can you run me through the toothpick method Jamie? Is that scraping/cutting the trunk in little sections and flaring out with toothpicks to promote basal thickening? I know the inverse taper is frowned upon in bonsai circles, I was hoping to cover that bit with some landscape material - e.g. - a ground fern/moss or some rockery, sometime in the future.

Strawbs, did you defoliate that fig recently or is it an old picture?

Cheers all

Here's a Grewia I did and gave to someone as a birthday present I didn't measure it but it would have been roughly 20cm's.

I have several to show

2 small Trident Maple of rocks I have recently potted up into Bonsai Pots

My little Jacarandah woud be close to Shohin size too

Ken

bonscythe wrote:Can you run me through the toothpick method Jamie? Is that scraping/cutting the trunk in little sections and flaring out with toothpicks to promote basal thickening? I know the inverse taper is frowned upon in bonsai circles, I was hoping to cover that bit with some landscape material - e.g. - a ground fern/moss or some rockery, sometime in the future.

Strawbs, did you defoliate that fig recently or is it an old picture?

Cheers all

hi mate, it will be easier to show you these are a progression set of pics from Gerard but the actual theory and practice of it I am pretty sure Bodhi come up with (no offence to gerard who has done a great job with this one too!).

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it is a good, gentle way of creating a new nebari without putting the stress of the ring bark on a full air layer

jamie

Here is a couple of mine.

Juniper Squatima from Nursery stock 6 months in training.
Unsure of these two species but they are cuttings from a border type plant
And another Juniper Squatima

Bretts wrote:Here is a back shot as the front shot may have given the impression there was a large chop

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G'day Bretts,
hows this little beauty going?

Great showcase
Really like where some are going

Here's some of mine :
Mostly ligustrum




faux acacia / Leucaena leucocephala

Some of mine.

Timothy
1 sec I thought it was the first procumbens nana that got defoliated in the second picture