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I have had this Camellia for a while. I dug it from my garden and then removed some heavy branches from the base. Unfortunately the removal resulted in part of the trunk dying which is why their is a couple of bad scares on the lower trunk.

I keep this tree just for the flowers not for its technical qualities as a Bonsai.

Regards,

Peter

Peter, Very nice!
What do you think caused the die back? Rot? Or maybe they have some kind of life vains like some plants...(Buddleja)...where a root is connected to a branch?
Do the leaf reduce?

Neli,

I suspect that the die back was caused by either digging to close to the trunk or by not letting it recover long enough before working on it.
I have not been able to reduce the leaf size.

Regards,
Peter

Like it very much Peter nice one.

I have a seedling of Hiryu, it has not yet flowered but it has smaller leaves than the parent and was the best of 20 or so seedlings, (flowers aside ). I get some reasonable results with leaf size by pinching out shoots once they get to 2-3 leaves (dependant on internode length).

Have you tried C.transnokoenensis?
Small leaf, (approx 20mm long) and small single white flowers with yellow centre.

Thanks Peter...Need to know what not to do!

Love the flowers they are beauties.

Its that time of year agian.

Front and back this time and another camellia in flower(smaller variety).

Regards

Peter

Waw! This are rees to be proud of.

Great examples

Wow, love them both mate!! A Camellia's are one of my favourite species!!

Very lovely peter, thankyou for sharing