Portulacaria afra

[wattynine]

so all of you true bonsai-ists, yes its OK to stop reading now and go back to browsing.
Yeh yeh I know their succulents not "real" bonsai.
Yeh yeh I know their pig food (and elephants)
BUT...........
I started these around 8 years ago and have treated the with total disrespect. Occasionally I pulled the from the junk pile and trimmed them, maybe wired them, sometimes re-potted them and then chucked 'em back in the junk pile.
this weekend I thought I should do something with them a little more seriously.

number one, before,
the front??

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the back??

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the result,

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number two, front?

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back?

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the result,

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for those who made it this far, many thanks and well done, hope you enjoyed.
Five hours of a Saturday.............done.

Watty

[Pup]

The late great John.Y .Naka wrote an article in a tropical magazine on them. Many years ago he said there were many fine examples in Florida.

Cheers pup

[wattynine]

Again just adding aerial shots for the library, cannot just edit them and move on.

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[wattynine]

Couple of days of rain has me updating,
apologies for the photo-bomb
thanks for lookin'
Watty

Just for the record "number 2" plant has been sold, no further update.

Plant number 1

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