melbrackstone wrote:I bought some tube stock after seeing your casuarina enthusiasm last year....they have a long way to go before they have trunks like this, but I'm hoping to get something worthwhile in my lifetime. Thanks again for the inspiration Rory.
Hi mel,
Most of the tall growing casuarina trees are very fast growers so you should have very thick stock in a few years if you ground grow them, or leave the pots on the ground like I do to grow into the ground. The casuarina shrubs I've grown are so painfully slow I just discarded them.
I remember wanting them ever since reading about them in Dorothy koreshoffs little book - bonsai with Australian natives.
But in the 90s I never found a nursery that grew them until I stumbled across the state forest nursery once I learnt how to drive. Stevens casuarina passion was what really hooked me after that too. I adored the casuarinas he was producing and wanted to grow a tone of them. I originally tried pines in the early 90s but soon realized they are hard to grow and are prone to so many problems that my interest in them waned. That was when I steered heavily into native material and I've never looked back.
