AusBonsai

Once again the nectarine is flowering before the maples have completed changing colour. The weird thing is that I allow this to annoy me. Every year.

haha yep. Nice flowers though
My Japanese maple hasn't lost all its leaves yet either They kind of just go brown and shrivel up throughout all of winter. From memory last winter new growth started before all leaves had even fallen. My tridents do much better here and lost their last leaves a week or two ago. Don't know your location but guessing north of Sydney?

klaery wrote:haha yep. Nice flowers though

Keep threatening to take some cuttings or an air layer - the flowers are wonderful while the rest of the garden is asleep.

klaery wrote:My Japanese maple hasn't lost all its leaves yet either They kind of just go brown and shrivel up throughout all of winter. From memory last winter new growth started before all leaves had even fallen. My tridents do much better here and lost their last leaves a week or two ago.

Glad that it's not just me.

klaery wrote:Don't know your location but guessing north of Sydney?

About 300km north and all the way west!

My maples lost their leaves weeks ago, but on the Northern Tablelands we are 3,500 absl, and get frost and a bit of snow. But on the coast around Coff's Harbor, and Dorrigo, spring flowers and azaleas are always a few weeks ahead of us. In the New England National Park in the temperate rain forest, the Antarctic beeches are not deciduous, and are like Eucalypti shed leaves all the year around. Evolution and adapting to their environment.

I am in Brisbane my Trident starting to bud as with cedar new shoots and the styrax with new growth. The lillypilly has new abundant growth. Confer and the grevillea as with the Maki and the Junipers I don't think we had winter this year. My trees are not behaving text book.

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Rae

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Yeah, talk about bizarre, I have a dishojo maple that still has new growth on the ends of its branch, as the very end leaves are still red and haven't turned green yet. I don't think it realizes it is winter.

My lonely little Trident and my Mulberries lost their leaves a month ago, I'm hanging out for spring to kick in so I can watch some growth again!

Had a bit of a warm one in SA this morning so hopefully it's not far away

My garden roses still have leaves? Yet Armidale is cold really with lots of frost. I bought a Chinese Elm yesterday from Bunnings, it is in full leaf,when non of my deciduous are even attempting to bud break. So I placed it with others in an old aquarium that gives protection and is warm. The order came from Sydney. Explains the early leaf production. I suspect it is the normal environment so it has to be carefully adapted.

Have any of you use soil thermometers, an ordinary cooking one will do. From my experience, the soil temp has a lot to do whether they bud burst or not. Maybe wrong.

Well I just watched snow fall in my back yard in canberra. So I guess it's still winter here.

My neighbour said its snowing now in the back paddocks and im at work elevation 520 metres . It should be snowing around Olinda area . Anyone out there ?