AusBonsai

I have Tillandsia usneoides growing in the air suspended by a bent hook does that count.

Cheers Pup

Chandlers Kitty litter turns to mush

Pup wrote:Australian plants do not make good Bonsai. Cant collect them

Neither do Pinus pinea.

Pup, can you please clarify if you mean the myth is you cant make a good bonsai from a Pinus pinea, or were you saying you can?
Thanks

Pup's stone pine

Luke308 wrote:

Pup wrote:Australian plants do not make good Bonsai. Cant collect them

Neither do Pinus pinea.

Pup, can you please clarify if you mean the myth is you cant make a good bonsai from a Pinus pinea, or were you saying you can?
Thanks

Young Luke I was told many years ago they do not make good Bonsai I have two. One was on display at the May convention in Fremantle this year.

Which has since been published in the BCI Bonsai and stone appreciation magazine. So I am saying yes you can they have been posted here.

Thanks, how long have you had yours for? do you treat them like other pines, or is there anything special I should know?
PS yours looks looks fantastic

Leigh Taafe wrote:A friend of mine bare roots and washes Japanese Black Pines with a hose as he digs them from his growing field - I guess this busts the myth of keeping some of the old soil!

I recently collected a radiata pine. It was pulled from the ground by hand (was not expecting too collect on this ride) Threw it in my back pack and rode for another two hours on a warm day. Completely bare rooted and slightly damaged - 8 weeks later it still survives and hasn't lost a needle.

Steve W