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Bonsai hedge

Posted: December 14th, 2011, 11:49 am
by Bretts
I think I posted this in "Drop in on Sunday" thread when I first started it some months back. It is starting to take shape so I thought I would post agian.
Dan Barton had one of these in a book for a bit of fun and since I had a few dwarf honeysuckle about that are great minature hedge material I thought I would give it a go. Glad I did it is alot of fun and might make a great accent one day :)
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Taking pictures is always great, it may look better reducing the hieght some. :lost:

Re: Bonsai hedge

Posted: December 14th, 2011, 11:59 am
by waltersh
I LOVE this!!! Very cute and cool looking! I just need 50 of those little things for my front garden :lol:

Re: Bonsai hedge

Posted: December 14th, 2011, 12:11 pm
by Steve Warren
Very nice Bretts. I love the idea. I have many Japanese Box cuttings, think i'll try one myself. Looks like fun.

Steve W

Re: Bonsai hedge

Posted: December 14th, 2011, 12:13 pm
by NBPCA
Thats what I call thinking outside the box!

Grant

Re: Bonsai hedge

Posted: December 14th, 2011, 12:33 pm
by carlosgaray
That looks fantastic, always wondered what it would look like in Bonsai form what an art well done. I reckon if you add a white picket fence if front, it would look so good. Thanks for the inspiration. :tu:

Re: Bonsai hedge

Posted: December 14th, 2011, 12:40 pm
by Jason.S
Top work Bretts, thats an interesting little bonsai you've got there and looks fun to work on.

Re: Bonsai hedge

Posted: December 14th, 2011, 12:41 pm
by waltersh
carlosgaray wrote:That looks fantastic, always wondered what it would look like in Bonsai form what an art well done. I reckon if you add a white picket fence if front, it would look so good. Thanks for the inspiration. :tu:
Fence is the BEST idea ever haha! :tu:

Re: Bonsai hedge

Posted: December 14th, 2011, 3:12 pm
by irish
Hi.

Well done ,that's cool. :tu2:

Regards.
Irish. :aussie:

Re: Bonsai hedge

Posted: December 14th, 2011, 4:31 pm
by cuwire
Hi Bretts

Don't be staid ---- there is a wombat there just waiting to be shaped out.

cheers

Re: Bonsai hedge

Posted: December 14th, 2011, 8:26 pm
by bodhidharma
Yep, i agree. Give us some Topiary. :cool:

Re: Bonsai hedge

Posted: December 14th, 2011, 9:50 pm
by Petra
Yea! you done it. i remember this little hedge a while back,good work. :cool: :tu:

Re: Bonsai hedge

Posted: December 14th, 2011, 10:43 pm
by Hornet
Looks great, i've always thought of doing a bonsai topiary, mini "lollypop" ficus or something simple along those lines

Re: Bonsai hedge

Posted: December 15th, 2011, 5:26 pm
by Bretts
Glad ya's all like it :)

I still have some way to go before I get the square hedge just right, maybe some time later I will try a wombat :roll: :lol:

Re: Bonsai hedge

Posted: January 22nd, 2012, 1:24 pm
by Beano
That is so cute!

Re: Bonsai hedge

Posted: January 24th, 2012, 5:05 pm
by Beano
You've inspired me to try this, I couldn't get honeysuckle so I opted for Murraya instead. Did you have to wire the bottom branches to get the hedge low enough, or did you achieve this through continual pruning?