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As discussed in the Native Repotting thread, here are some trunks that are in the process of development. I cut off everything that I think is boring, once a year, then let it grow strongly, and randomly for the rest of the season. Then just keep what interests me - not much each year, but it adds up. These are from 2 - 6 years old. All quite small.
Kunzea ambigua. I don' know how much of this I'll keep - we'll see.
Another Kunzea. I like the roots.
A sinuous Leptospermum obovatum.
Another sinuous L. obovatum, now dead. It had a nasty slow wasting disease that took months. But you can see the structure clearly...
Another L. obovatum - very young, but you can see where its contours are heading. Most Leptos seem slowish to thicken, at least the way I grow them.
A callistemon. Trunk and roots are there, branches not so much, as yet.
A very young Mulga. The dead right branch will stay as long as I can keep it, as the rest of the tree develops.
There are some interesting twists in this M. styphelioides that don't show well in the photo - trees that have good movement in 3D can often photograph poorly in 2D. Red shoots are wonderful!
Fairly obvious design, a bit 2D, but it will end up doing something interesting.
And something far more graceful than anything I'll ever manage to do, completely unselfconscious.

Gavin

Your work seems to be paying off Gavin and an inspiration to others to try growing some similar.
Plenty of real character in those trunks and I look forward to seeing some of them in pots at some stage.

Excellent to see Gavin- thanks for posting. The pooch looks to be mimicking the some of the curves in your trees too!


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These are great Gavin, thanks for sharing. Do you ground grow at all or just in pots?

I am massively jealous of the lepto...any good lepto for that matter - just can’t seem to get them to flourish; actually that’s an overstatement- can get them to survive! Any tricks to lepto’s? Maybe I should try a water bath / seems to work for my gums, mels and kunzea.... not sure why I haven’t tried that for leptos.


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A fabulous post on how to get the best out of any material! It's something I started doing after first joining ausbonsai and seeing all the amazing suggestions for getting something out of your trees by early intervention, and I reckon it really is the smartest way to get some attractive and different trees in the long run.

I was tootling through various sites recently, and found this old blog. I found his list to be very interesting!

https://phutu.com/what-your-bonsai-coll ... RbXx6EuVZs

PS, love your pup.

melbrackstone wrote: ↑October 24th, 2020, 7:47 am
I was tootling through various sites recently, and found this old blog. I found his list to be very interesting!

https://phutu.com/what-your-bonsai-coll ... RbXx6EuVZs

PS, love your pup.

Who has time for 40 trees when you have 80

Who has time for 40 trees when you have 80

Thanks for the replies folks.

Shuibui: - hang on a bit, I'm only 69. No need to rush this pot business...

greg27: for natives, always in pots, although some get roots into the ground they stand on. I tried ground-growing some Mels and Eucs, but they mostly grew one or two roots that went down to China, and didn't survive the digging up.

MJL: Leptos are hardy for me, but they're absolutely intolerant of drying out at all. A water bath may help in summer, but the growth tends to be long and leggy.

Keels: you haven't seen my yard...

Gavin