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Has anyone had any experience growing and/or training Huon Pines? I bought one from Nesci's last year and it has doubled in height (not width) now.
Penny.

mudlarkpottery wrote:Has anyone had any experience growing and/or training Huon Pines? I bought one from Nesci's last year and it has doubled in height (not width) now.
Penny.

Do you have a photo

I have never seen one in the flesh yet

Hi kcpoole. I'll take one and post it today. I have to send peter some photos of pots anyway. When Ray and Clinton were at out exhibition last year (I have photos of that too), I was checking out their trees, as you do, and saw some unusual foliage. When I picked it up and looked at the tag and saw what it was, I just had to have it just to actually have a huon pine growing in my yard. I had never seen one in the flesh so to speak either.
Penny.

This is the one in the National collection in Canberra. I don't know who donated though. Pup

Wow! I wonder how old it is. It makes mine look like an old piece of training wire with bits of green fluff sticking to it. Did anyone see a show on SBS -Vasilli's Garden with that stupid host. He interviewed(?!) a Canberra man who did a quick re-pot and wire up of a huon pine.Ray says they will grow from cuttings. That's how they propagate theirs.
Penny.

Huon Pines are one of our most famous trees here in Tasmania. Young Huons (esp. when grown from cuttings) are often very floppy. They take quite a while to thicken up in the trunk, so growing them on is a good move. They like shade and they love water. They look quite lovely styled somewhat like a weeping willow, although mature (ie 100's or 1000's of years old) pines on the river edges often have tall, staturesque trunks with the branches tending upward and only the foliage tips weeping!

Penny (mudlark), your plant is definately a Huon Pine; Pup, your picture from the National Collection at Canberra is actually a Hoop Pine.....from Qld I think. So many 'pines'.....well conifers anyway. Here in Tasmania we have also the alpine Dwarf Pine Diselma archeri (very slow growing, very hardy in a bonsai pot) the Celery Top Pine Phylocladdus asplenifolius (with celery-like leaves!) and the Tasmanian Pencil Pine Athrotaxis cupressoides, amongst others. The Pencil Pine in Tasmania's mountains is one of my favourite trees......see a picture on the www.islandbonsai.com.au (inspirations page) for a wild example!

Happy bonsaing,
Will IB

Hi Will,

Thanks for dropping by mate. Your expertise with our natives will be greatly appreciated here!
I encourage everyone to check out Wills 'Inspiration' page at Island Bonsai.

S.

Hello Will IB. I have heard a lot about you and your nursery. Can you post some pictures of your native trees please???

BB

kcpoole wrote:

mudlarkpottery wrote:Has anyone had any experience growing and/or training Huon Pines? I bought one from Nesci's last year and it has doubled in height (not width) now.
Penny.

Do you have a photo

I have never seen one in the flesh yet

You should have been focusing on Sunday! I picked up a couple to look at when i was talking to you. They were $10 each, at about 15 cm in height, but weeping over the sides of the pot. Maybe next time lol.

JayC

Thanks, Will, for your info. I don't expect to see mine as a mature bonsai, but to actually have a Huon Pine growing in my yard is a buzz.
Penny.