AusBonsai

Close ups of the developing spikes. a lovely colour and size, and plenty of them. Hoping to enter it in the Central Coast show.

Grant

Interesting! Most Banksias don't seem to flower in bonsai pots, because we keep pinching them back - what is different with this? Just the dwarfness and density of the shoots? It will make for a fine display.

Gavin

The ones that don’t usually flower have their flower at the end of the growth and yes, they mainly get removed by pinching. BSerrata flowers grow from a short spike that is terminal and grows no further.

Grant

UPDATE. 2019 fires at Green Cape Eden

Hi all, about a month ago I took some days off and travelled down to the Green cape area near Eden as I had heard that major fires had gone through the AREA IN 2019. I HAD MISSED THE NEWS AT THE TIME , as I was still in hospital recovering or about to undergo the heart transplant operation. At first it looked ok but disorienting but then realised that about 90 or 95% plus of the adult trees had just completely disappeared. Bad news indeed.

But good news! I saw that a few older trees along the roads edge had miraculously survived and some that were a bit taller also survived. AND there are 10s of thousands of seedling trees popping up. Some 4 yrs old now and some just 1 yr old now. Photos and explanation to follow

Grant

An example of leaving the vine on TOO LONG>

We use those to thicken the trunks Grant.