Ausbonsai spring show 2020

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Re: Ausbonsai spring show 2020

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melbrackstone wrote: October 18th, 2020, 2:12 pm The first one Sno, is that one of those creepers from Tasmania that produces a red fruit?
Hi Mel . It’s common name is Dwarf Mountain Pine , it grows in the Blue Mountains near Sydney .Its quite slow growing (for me at least ) this is a cutting taken 4 or so years from one I am growing on . It recently had a name change in 1951 :palm: . It’s new name is Microstrobos fitzgerldii .
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The first one Sno, is that one of those creepers from Tasmania that produces a red fruit?
I guess you are thinking of Microcachrys tetragona or Creeping Pine, AKA creeping strawberry pine.

I have a couple here but they have been extremely slow to produce anything approaching a trunk. All branches drop straight down as it seems to have no support of its own. I noticed that the male plant is releasing pollen today so looking forward to fruits on the female plant again this summer.
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Sno wrote: October 18th, 2020, 6:18 pm
melbrackstone wrote: October 18th, 2020, 2:12 pm The first one Sno, is that one of those creepers from Tasmania that produces a red fruit?
Hi Mel . It’s common name is Dwarf Mountain Pine , it grows in the Blue Mountains near Sydney .Its quite slow growing (for me at least ) this is a cutting taken 4 or so years from one I am growing on . It recently had a name change in 1951 :palm: . It’s new name is Microstrobos fitzgerldii .
Cheers Sno. I haven't see this one before, love how you've presented it!
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shibui wrote: October 18th, 2020, 6:35 pm
The first one Sno, is that one of those creepers from Tasmania that produces a red fruit?
I guess you are thinking of Microcachrys tetragona or Creeping Pine, AKA creeping strawberry pine.

I have a couple here but they have been extremely slow to produce anything approaching a trunk. All branches drop straight down as it seems to have no support of its own. I noticed that the male plant is releasing pollen today so looking forward to fruits on the female plant again this summer.
That's the one! Ta
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Keels wrote:Some wonderful trees being shown. Thanks for the idea Shibui :tu: thought I'd get involved and share my Allocasuarina torulosa. It has only recently come into my collection after the cbs exhibition. It's a wonderful tree :D
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Keep Calm and Ramify wrote: October 17th, 2020, 2:44 pm
Ryceman3 wrote: October 14th, 2020, 11:30 am This is my first entry in any exhibition ... it's exciting in a virtual kind of way! :P
Thanks for the concept shibui ... nice idea.
I'm an shy exhibition virgin too... but feel I can add a little :flag: set up.
Here is a melaleuca claret tops with accents of iron & tin.
Drip glazed pot by James Tranter.
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Love the set up KC&R, all the hallmarks of an authentic Oz scene. :flag: :yes:
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My little entry. I can't take full credit for the work on these trees but I have had them for a little while I just hope I can do the original owners justice.
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Hawthorns caused plenty of comment at the Canberra show and now mine has some flowers open so I've rushed it onto the bench.
Did not have time for a stand or even to clean up the weeds so probably won't be asked back next year.
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Ca'on mate, presentation is everything. Although you get extra points for putting up a hawthorn.
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I like the fact this exhibition can run for long enough to get all the flowering trees covered. :)
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Here are some of my trees that are now in spring mode. Nothing much doing in the flowers dept. at the moment, but these are greening nicely.
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Just to encourage shy members to contribute I thought I would put in a few of mine. And I have never seen a bonsai in 3D so should be put in the novice section.
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Casurina cunninghamiana x cristata, purchased in February 2014 as a forestry seedling, 30cms high, diameter a ground level 2.5cm
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Eucalyptus melliodora, purchased Feburary 2014 as a forestry seedling, grown in a large pot for two years when on repotting it had a two mtr long root that was unceremoniously cut off which created the accidental but fortunate scar in the trunk. 76 cms high, 7 cm diameter at soil level.
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Melaleuca Copper Tops, purchased September 2015 in a 10 cm pot because I thought I saw a tree in it, took me another year to see it again and have since questioned if I had only seen a boring street tree :whistle: 39 cms high 5 cms Diameter at soil level.
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Boxwood, don't know which species. This little tree was collected in September 2016 after a council worker knocked it off with a mower and was only hanging on by a single root. The hedge was planted around 1983 so almost 40 years old. 40cms high 7cms diameter at soil level.

Hope you like them, I will add a couple of little uns next week
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a bit of Chinese penjing with a Chinese elm (in a Chinese pot)...and this is where Treeman reaches for the vomit bucket ;)
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Scaddid, I like the trunk of your melliodora - a Euc that doesn't have scars just hasn't lived...

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A Chinese Elm I've been playing with for a couple of years.
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