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These came in the mail today from Wimmera Native Nursery. I'm quite excited about these as I had chosen them based on a few things like the size and shape of the leaves to the colour of the flowers. I know it will be a while off yet before they will flower (if at all), but I'll have some fun with them in the mean time.

From left to right:
Cider Gum - E. Gunnii
Red-Capped Gum - E. Erythrocorys
Round-Leaved Mallee - E. Orbifolia
Swamp Mallet - E. Spathulata
Gooseberry Mallee - E. Calycogona

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nice!

I ordered some tubes from a native nursery which had a lower limit of 25 tubes at a time...only 3 of them were labelled... 20 of them look pretty similar, but they should be 3 different plants...

I'm sure I'll work it out eventually...

Wimmera didn't have a minimum amount and all were labelled well. They were package quite securely as well.

I've found a few other native nurseries that take online orders, so I'll be checking those out, too.

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This is my River red i planted in late January it was a like yours

That's an insane growth rate! Will you look to cut it back a bit now or are you going to wait?

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Hi mate, yeah....nah....dunno what i'm thinking is chopping it down to about say 400 odd mm seeing where it shoots and then deciding on chopping it back to hopefully 2-300 mm then growing it on again to get that magical thing called taper i'm thinking it's final size will be about 1.2m, i'm going to have to put a shovel thru the roots, but not going to do that til spring, so chop will wait til summer, or should i do it now ya reckon?

Wimmera didn't have a minimum amount and all were labelled well.

Bonus! Place I dealt with packed everything well, but only marked the name of each of the 4 types on one tube... oh well, the plants themselves are in good nick, and I just can't seem to buy them locally...even the Native plant market I went to on the weekend wasn't as well stocked as I'd hoped!

This is my River red i planted in late January

Crikey! I have heard that they will grow really fast from tubestock, but that's amazing!

You have some serious fun there q-e!

Be gentle with root-pruning E. gunnii, a few people have found them touchy.
E. orbifolia has "minni-ritchi" bark when it gets some size to it - it curls off the tree lengthwise, and should be very interesting.
Mallees by their nature are prone to slender growth - take this into consideration when you are deciding what you want.
E. spathulata and calygona look very interesting - please keep us advised whether they are robust for bonsai treatment.
Flowering is not really likely, given that we keep on pinching and pruning - they don't seem keen on it. Good luck if you can make it happen!
Some of the mallees are West Australian - they may need particularly well-drained soils in the humid east.

Please keep posting as they develop.

Gavin

Thanks for your response, Gavin. I'll certainly keep this thread updated as they grow.

Just on the mallee's and their slender growth, I recently bought a book on Literati Penjing and almost all of the bonsai in that book illustrated slender trees that didn't have a great deal of taper (if any!). I think that's where I'll look for inspiration for those.

I'm certainly excited to see how these turn out!

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Hmmmm. Tall slender elegant lonely Euc in the middle of nowhere, a few sparse branches, bark half shedding, the sound of crows in the distance.....

Looking forward to it.

Gavin

GavinG wrote:Hmmmm. Tall slender elegant lonely Euc in the middle of nowhere, a few sparse branches, bark half shedding, the sound of crows in the distance.....

That's exactly what I'm thinking of!!!!


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