AusBonsai

Had my eye on this tree for a few weeks now early today had phone call sayoing my seasonal work is starting Monday where i work 7 days 10hr days but money is good so decided i needed to collect this one today
I have a few reasons to collect this material as its not the best but in time most trees can be made into a bonsai .

Main reason is i wanted a tree that has a lot of dead wood looking around this was the best i could find . Ill be getting a dremel soon an wanted some thing to practice on . Ive done a little with my dads dremel but only on a piece of wood but on bonsai will be much different cant just flip the tree over etc .
Another reason is i have always like dead wood in bonsai i can remember looking in books when i was a kid an thinking i have to work on getting something like that . I see olive as a great resource for this kind of work as old junipers an pines are few an far between in Oz .
I think this tree will give me some valuable experience in carving dead wood . If the carving looks good ill train a new trunk following the the red line in the picture then go from there

You must surely be doing your bit for weed control for South Australia

You have got some cracking plants though

Squizz

Nice movement in the trunk.. And plenty of opportunity to carve!

matlea wrote:Nice movement in the trunk.. And plenty of opportunity to carve!

Yeah cant Waite to get me a dremel all that wood is dead except the small trunk on the left i just cut the whole thing to fit a 300mm garden pot will give carving a nebari a go as well heaps of fun to come on this olive

Ya killin me Olive !!! I think a trip to Adelaide is in order !!!