Tick Bush

[anthonyW]

First styling/wiring and repot today, took some heavy wiring here and there to get wobble in the bloody gnarly old thing haha, cost me packet in wire hmm , unfortunately the pics don t show all movement, anyway a start for now and a make do pot ...cheers

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[boom64]

Hi Anthony ,
Cool looking Tree ,something special about mother nature and the chaotic way branches just fire out from here and there. Hope to see more .Great species but i am a little bit biased. Cheers John.

[MJL]

Cool night shot. It's styled like an offspring of the Cassie recently posted by PeterH.

[anthonyW]

Thanks John, yes enjoy working with the material, but i took a good part of the roots off to get it in pot that will interesting.

Thanks Mark yes can see the silhouette resemblance mate.

cheers guys.

[melbrackstone]

Always good to see another tick bush. I keep killing em....one left out of half a dozen!

I might have to watch everyone else's for a year or two. Nice start with this one Anthony!

[anthonyW]

Thanks Mel, I m wondering what your thoughts are, I find they do love water and these guys i m playing with have excellent rootage before I attempt to start but?...are they a bit touchy with there roots, you are scaring me now lol...Anthony

[melbrackstone]

I might have been a little less careful with them than I should have been. They're not very common up here in the sub-tropics, not that I've seen, anyway! Seeing what Hugh, Matt and David do with them in NSW, and all the Vic Native members in Victoria, I'm guessing they might just be a little problematic for this climate....That's my story, anyway.

[anthonyW]

Cheers Mel, haha thanks for giving me hope, okay I won t run outside and hold its branch lol...

[melbrackstone]

[Matt S]

That's a nice looking tree Anthony, it looks like something you'd see in the bush, which I assume is what you were trying for! How shallow a pot do you think it could handle?

Matt.

[Ryceman3]

Agree with the general concensus above - it looks like a great job, nice vision and I really like all of it ... except maybe the branch I have marked in your image below ...

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... just not sure it is in harmony with the rest of your styling in terms of the line and I feel like with the movement heading left it could maybe be reduced in length?? Things always look a bit different in 3D so maybe I am being finicky about nothing! (just my initial feeling when I looked at it)
Is this collected??
Look forward to seeing this develop, thanks for posting.

[bubba92]

Wow I really like the look of this. It makes me think of a lightning strike, when a lot of bolts branch off

[anthonyW]

Thanks Matt, yes trying to do that, good qestion on pot depth not sure about that, I would like to go a little more shallower Matt, if it survives this repot as i ripped off a third to get it into this pot, ...cheers

Good pick up Ryan, the photo does accentuate it, but I did flatten it out a little bit and brought the branch above down slightly to shadow it as I need more focal from the busy main trunk action...cheers

cheers Bubba, yes I can see that with the night shot... cheers