Cotoneaster raft

treeman · Post by **treeman** » November 21st, 2016, 3:15 pm

I swear THIS year the blackbirds won't eat the fruit!!!

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Boics · Post by **Boics** » November 21st, 2016, 3:29 pm

Cool!
Looks there will be a lot of fruit too Treeman!
.....I find they don't eat my berries until pretty late in the piece anyway?

Daluke · Post by **Daluke** » November 21st, 2016, 5:19 pm

That is awesome.

What variety is it?

shibui · Post by **shibui** » November 21st, 2016, 6:43 pm

I swear THIS year the blackbirds won't eat the fruit!!!

Look forward to seeing the pictures but you'll need a good guard or a well sealed exclusion net to keep the buggers off

Ces · Post by **Ces** » November 22nd, 2016, 10:25 am

That little raft is lively now and will be fantastic in a few years.

Thanks for posting.

treeman · Post by **treeman** » March 14th, 2017, 12:26 pm

Beat the little black winged pests this year.

Matthew · Post by **Matthew** » March 14th, 2017, 3:36 pm

That's a very nice tree mike and i think that style suits it well .

bodhidharma · Post by **bodhidharma** » March 14th, 2017, 7:10 pm

It is indeed a nice tree, now if you can apply that skill to your photographs

Pearcy001 · Post by **Pearcy001** » March 14th, 2017, 8:09 pm

This is looking the goods Mike.

Loving your work mate.

Cheers,
Pearcy.

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peterb · Post by **peterb** » March 14th, 2017, 9:36 pm

Hi mike
That is a beautiful little tree , is it the micro leaf one? It must be quite old , they are such slow growers

Cheers Peterb

treeman · Post by **treeman** » March 15th, 2017, 9:36 am

peterb wrote:Hi mike
That is a beautiful little tree , is it the micro leaf one? It must be quite old , they are such slow growers
Cheers Peterb

Thanks Peter. I think it's thymifolia. Cotoneaster are pretty hard to distinguish. There is one with a smaller leaf -microphylla - but slow is right! There's also a problem with their twigs becoming overly thick too. They all seem to do that. I think once I can get to the stage of pruning out congested areas so you can see some branching detail it will look much better.

Raymond · Post by **Raymond** » March 15th, 2017, 11:08 am

Very nice!

shibui · Post by **shibui** » March 15th, 2017, 6:08 pm

It is great to get a little time to appreciate the fruits of your labours.
I decided to make sure the fruit lasts a bit longer this year so I put in a bird cage

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or should that be an anti bird cage

Still plenty of berries for display this Saturday at Wodonga Show.

AusBonsai

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