growing beds

[craigw60]

Heres my growing beds all ready for the new growing season. Bring it on
Craigw

[Glenn C]

Great set up Craig, can you feel my greeness oozing through the web.

[Jamie]

gday craig

nice set up can you tell me what the trees are in the picture number P1010652 (second last) more importantly the main tree in the pic, bottom left hand corner?

cheers mate

[ozzy]

Well on your way to some first class bonsai there.

[craigw60]

G'day Jamie, I think you are looking at the collected ash stumps, they were just ripped out of the ground and root pruned with a saw last winter, I am really just roughing some shape into the trunks at the moment and trying to replace the big heavy roots with more fine ones. the other trees in 652 are corked bark chinese elms I grow heaps of them each year from root cuttings, I find the root cuttings cork up much more quickly than material propagated from above ground.
Craigw

[Jamie]

gday craig

I ment right hand corner, not left cheers for enlightening us

look forward to seeing them in a couple of years!

[Jake]

nice set up you have some good stock in there by the looks. i wish i had the backyard for some thing like that. you're lucky

[Chris Sirre]

Heres my growing beds all ready for the new growing season. Bring it on
Craigw

Hi Graig,

Nice set up mate. I have to give you a visit soon. I'm sure yo're getting some nice trees out that.

Cheers,

Chris

[craigw60]

Hi Chris, I think growing bonsai is like photography in that you need to grow lots of them in order to get a few good ones, I am lucky in that I have the time and like to bring the trunks up section by section to ensure good taper and movement.
Craig

[shibui]

Too right Craig - putting one tree in the ground will not necessarily result in a fabulous bonsai. I also work on the principle of grow lots, pick the best, let someone else develop some and junk the worst - some trees are just not worth the effort.
Love the raised growing beds.

[craigw60]

Thanks Shibui, the raised beds mean less bending and stooping during the summer pruning season, also the back section of my block gets very wet during the winter so I need to keep the trees a little raised.
Craig

[daiviet_nguyen]

Hi Craig,

Are you running your own nursery?

Best regards.

[bodhidharma]

Damn Craig, so neat and tidy. I will have to get stuck into mine now

[Jamie]

Damn Craig, so neat and tidy. I will have to get stuck into mine now

hey champ!

you cant be back home already??? has it really gone that quick!! good to see you on mate

Jamie

[Bretts]

Thanks Shibui, the raised beds mean less bending and stooping during the summer pruning season, also the back section of my block gets very wet during the winter so I need to keep the trees a little raised.
Craig

Hey Craig
Great to see the pics of your growing area. Will be great to get an update through the year when they are in full leaf. When you say summer pruning can you explain what prunning at this time entails. I would not imagine you are chopping back to a bare trunk at this time. So maybe it is just to remove any advantageous growth before it stuffs up the plan?
Also what are the trees that have not dropped last years leaves. They would not be beech are they