Hi Guys,
Never pass up the chance to go through all the Nurseries around you area, no matter how small or strange. We have one in Gladstone that covers plants that the others don't seem to care about. Anyhoo, i was wandering around my local eclectic nursery one day last August and saw that they had a "Discount Section". When I had a look I noticed a really weird looking tree, identified by the nursery as a Lillypilly.
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Now the nice lady who owns the Nursery told me the story: 'Last summer we had all that wind, some of the trees blew down. This one lived, so we just cut it off and let it go to see what would happen'. The price for this gem of a tree? $10.00.
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I said to myself: Self you could probably style this tree as windblown.
So I bought it, got it home and had a good look at the base structure.
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Then I decided it needed a haircut
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Thn I let it have a short holiday, ie Recovery. After a couple of months I wasn't happy with the growth aspect of the new foliage.
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So I gave it a little trim.
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Which helped the tree understand what it was supposed to look like. Three months down the track, I'm ready to start looking at styling.
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My vision is a multi trunked raft style tree, with a slant in the base and I'm going to keep the exposed roots. It will be in a cascade style or higher angled pot to show that the raft is only grounded at one end. Any suggestions, critiques Gratefully accepted.
Thanks,
Ron
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