[Not updated] [Andrew Legg] Budleja saligna
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[Not updated] [Andrew Legg] Budleja saligna
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.
Cheers,
Andrew
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.
Cheers,
Andrew
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Re: [Andrew Legg] Budleja saligna
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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Re: [Andrew Legg] Budleja saligna
Also not much of a mover!
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Re: [Andrew Legg] Budleja saligna
Starting to move a bit. Not sure what to do about them roots! Maybe a ground layering. . . . .
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Re: [Andrew Legg] Budleja saligna
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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Re: [Andrew Legg] Budleja saligna
I would loose that top part of deadwood, its a distraction
Trent.
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Re: [Andrew Legg] Budleja saligna
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
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Re: [Andrew Legg] Budleja saligna
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!Trent McKenzie wrote:I would loose that top part of deadwood, its a distraction
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I see it now!! Maybe he's unhappy about the quality of his hat! I'll work on making him happier!Magzy wrote:Gday Andrew,it maybe just me but your last photo looks like a very unhappy treeman sitting down and having a good sulk.
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Re: [Andrew Legg] Budleja saligna
Well, my unhappy treeman's hat is coming along! Here's my two new photo taken before and after a little bit of work last night, and confirming my re-entry.
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Cheerio all.
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Cheerio all.
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Re: [Not updated] [Andrew Legg] Budleja saligna
Hi All,
This tree has been kicked out as I did not update. Just thought I owed the organisers the explanation that I have kind of lost interest in this one a bit. Not sure why, but I just did not see it making much more progress that would be dynamic enough to be of much interest for this competition.
Cheers,
Andrew
This tree has been kicked out as I did not update. Just thought I owed the organisers the explanation that I have kind of lost interest in this one a bit. Not sure why, but I just did not see it making much more progress that would be dynamic enough to be of much interest for this competition.
Cheers,
Andrew
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Re: [Not updated] [Andrew Legg] Budleja saligna
I look forward to the day that I too can lose interest with trees of this caliber. .
One of the fabulous things about growing bonsai is as you get old and decrepit your trees get old and beautiful
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Re: [Not updated] [Andrew Legg] Budleja saligna
Hey Boics,Boics wrote:I look forward to the day that I too can lose interest with trees of this caliber. .
For me my love of bonsai has a lot to do with the process and less to do with the end result. With this specific tree, I just feel there's not much more in it that I can extract in the time given for the compo, so rather than just plod along and waste people's time with filling out foliage pads, I thought I'd withdraw it. I'll certainly keep the tree, and possibly in a few weeks, months or years a change may slap me in the face and say "oi, that'd be cool!", but for now, it just makes little sense in having something in the compo that's just gonna take space.
Cheers,
Andrew