Well these appeared on the horizon this morning
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, actually i spotted them in a front yard
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and as with all thing Bonsai i ask permission to remove a couple of trunks . Bugger me all the hard work was done so i thought . These looked quite small from the road so a quick round up of some serious labour and lets go hunting . With 3 men on board ,there was no way we could lift these mothers so the history of the Pyramids came into play . We used a hand trolley to move them and tried to slide them up ramps to get the buggers in the ute , a kind chap passing by saw our dilemma and jump in to help heave the big olive in . At around 400kg its not for the faint hearted , i will get the chainsaw out and lighten the load .
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. I collected a couple of good olives this one has a 600 x600 mm after i cut the lower section off , yes that's a full size basket ball right there
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this has a 800mm x400mm base after i cut the bulk of the buried sections off , definitely worthy of a topic
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"Monster olive versus Alpinearts Stihl"
.There was a couple of Citrus and Oleanders which i didn't bother with a Crepe myrtle , a Callistermon
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and 2 unknown trunks at this stage .The taller of the 2 has a pink or red flower according to the owner
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. It has some shoots high up so it won't be long before its identified .The 5 trunk clump has exfoliating bark which has me stumped
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, looks like a crepe Myrtle underneath but i have doubts as i have never seen this type of bark on a Myrtle , only time will tell . . Now being a man of leisure as Bougy Fan says , i think these just might top those big junipers as far as size goes , actually it makes them look like bonsai . I knew there was a reason to move those Juni's into boxes , i needed the scoria beds for bigger things
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Cheers Alpineart
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