AusBonsai

THanks for all the comments and advice.
1st thing to let them recover and then decide how to proceed with foliage and styling

Ken

Nice work Ken,

Do you think your trees could be juniperus wiltonii " Blue Rug"

Just a stab in the dark.

Squizz

Aarrgggghhhh first Alpine and now you I am starting to get an attack of Trunk Envy.

Well Today was " the Dig Day"
I invited a few members from Ausbonsai and The School of Bonsai to come along and help me clear out the garden.
Only 4 could make it due to other commitments but those that Joined me went home with some great trees that hopefully will recover and one day make excellent Bonsai

I have only just got home so will post some more photos later but here are a few teasers.

Enjoy
Ken

Nice work guys, hope you left one for me

Bretts wrote:Nice work guys, hope you left one for me

nope, you missed out

Mate I came home today with another 8 trees ,and if they all survive you can definitely have one

Ahh thanks Ken, I can't say no to that but you deserve them after all that work
Good to hear the Job is done.

Nice looking trees Ken and very community minded of you to share

Nice work Ken, now that was a dig . A little bit of work ahead of you now though. Some sweet looking trees and trunks.

Josh

Thanks Josh, All potted up now and will take pics tomorrow. Ran out of light today.

Ken

MASSIVE!!!

(And may I say, a very stylish hat, Ken.)

They look fairly bare-rooted - what will you pot them in? Usual bunch of rocks? Will you spray the branches at all? Shade? Enya at low volumes?

Gavin

Wow what a way to spend a sat digging up prime material. Can the owner of the range rover please help me retrieve the privet in my parents yard that is firmly entrenched please

Look forward to seeing some of these guys in pots.

kcpoole wrote:Thanks Josh, All potted up now and will take pics tomorrow. Ran out of light today.

Ken

Geez your good, mine are still soaking I posted a seperate thread but if I had known you had so many pics of me I would have crashed yours with my pics Thanks again for a great day & some great material to play with

The folks were home, nice to have lunch made for me and catch up with them. Dad did a good job of his pruning, might make a gardener out of him one day A bonus was finding out they had 4 more blocks of clay for me

Hi Ken, what tools do you use when collecting. Any thing special or just the normal tools with a lot of grunt Would be interested to see what you use.

Josh

kidsandall wrote:Hi Ken, what tools do you use when collecting. Any thing special or just the normal tools with a lot of grunt Would be interested to see what you use.

Josh

Hi Josh. these came out with a Mattock and a shovel only. ( Well 2 had the help of a car as well ).
Use a mattock to dig a trench around the root ball to cut all the surface roots then undercut it with Mattoc and shovel. out they popped

@Gavin, Yep potted up into Diatomite / Zeolite, with abotu 10% of Rays mix thrown in. Hard do see im photos. but lots of fine roots on them so I expect good survival.

Watering 2 times daily with sprayers, and most will be in Full sun except for the 4 with only a few roots

@ Velvet, the guy with the rangie, collects lots of large Azaleas. but has never used the car yet. I think I showed him a new trick

Ken