AusBonsai

some really cool trees and lot with a load of potential! thanks for sharing!

Fantastic collection! You must be kept very busy with all those lovely trees. I think you must be a very quick learner to have them in such great shape.. Keep up the good work.
Many thanks for sharing
Marleeney

Thanks for the thoughtful reply it is very interesting. Also a generous offer of Fig cuttings, did you say what species it was?. I have stepped up my production of fig cuttings as they are great to hand out if anyone shows interest.
That must have been a steep learning curve. Especially with deciduous trees out of climate. I sometimes think I would be better of giving up on hornbeams that can struggle in our heat here but I like them enough to persist. Are you considering getting rid of all the tridents or just a few?
I would love to see a feature post on the fig and the story of importing it in if possible

Thanks to everyone on the positive replys. I will get around to doing a post on that fig. I think i have a picture when it first came out of quaratine 2 years ago if i can find it and one when it was defoliated last summer.species wise it was grafted but the grafts are near impossible to tell. going through my paperwork it is ficus formosana maxim grafted to ficus microcarpa. I have never seen such small leaves on a fig and internodal spacing so close together before. millimetres apart not centimeters. All the cuttings i took are growing well but grow slow due to there leaf size and internode distance. I think the cuttings will suit either for grafting purposes to other trees or minis over time. Funny enough the trunk has never shot a single shoot before. Only the grafted branches. I will write up a little history when i find these pics.

Hi Noah,

It's amazing this collection is of three years work. I hope you don't mean Jupiter year or Uranus year. 3 earth years to reach this maturity with such a huge collection needs a lot of economic stimulus.................money
Without you, Australia should slipped into recession much earlier...............

Please share your experience for importing Figs from China. As far as I know, it is possible but extremely hard. the cost of the tree is nothing when you take quarantine, transport, paperwork into account. Lots of tree die in quarrantine.