[Andrew Legg] Budleja saligna

[Andrew Legg]

Entry #2

Howdee y'all.

Original height was about 1 meter. Current height is around 25 cms. Cost was about $3 as a throw out from a commercial nursery. All it has had to date is a trunk chop and I put it into a pot for growing on a bit (gotta get that foliage going!). My current idea is to jin the top section and make it into a skinny sparse tree.

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Cheers,

Andrew

[Andrew Legg]

Update #1: Just been letting the old girl get some momentum, so I have done very little to it other than water and feed.

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[Andrew Legg]

Also not much of a mover!

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[Andrew Legg]

Starting to move a bit. Not sure what to do about them roots! Maybe a ground layering. . . . .

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[Andrew Legg]

Okie dokei - now we're getting somewhere and I think I can see the design of this tree starting to materialise. Lots of water to flow under the bridge, but I think it's gonna be a nice little tree one day. Have decided to embrace the roots instead of trying to get rid of them! Nature is not perfect right

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[Trent McKenzie]

I would loose that top part of deadwood, its a distraction

[Magzy]

Gday Andrew,it maybe just me but your last photo looks like a very unhappy treeman sitting down and having a good sulk.
Cheers Mark

[Andrew Legg]

I would loose that top part of deadwood, its a distraction

Yip. At the moment it is still there for two reasons - first to carve as a possible lightning struck tip into the final design (I'm always hesitant to cut things off until I have decided it is absolutely necessary), and 2, as a handy handle to fling it across the garden should it have turned up its toes at me!

[Andrew Legg]

Gday Andrew,it maybe just me but your last photo looks like a very unhappy treeman sitting down and having a good sulk.
Cheers Mark

I see it now!! Maybe he's unhappy about the quality of his hat! I'll work on making him happier!