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Gifted Azalea

Posted: November 8th, 2015, 12:59 pm
by alpineart
This was a gift along with another Azalea as a result of the Albury show . A member of the Albury Horticultural Society approached me in regards to removing 2 plants if i wanted too and use them for Bonsai . Never one to knock back a plant i made the trip and removed them . This is the only 1 suitable for bonsai the other having extremely large flowers.
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This was removed from the side of the clump along with 3 mini plants
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This only requires a good clean out and trim
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after removing the unwanted trunks and trimmed into shape
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. This will do for now , I'm off to work .

Cheers Alpineart

Re: Gifted Azalea

Posted: November 9th, 2015, 7:58 pm
by Graeme
You know, sometimes it is just so easy to hate someone else. ;)

Bloody great score mate, hope we can all watch along as these develop into great Bonsai. (get it? Keep up the updates mate)

Re: Gifted Azalea

Posted: November 9th, 2015, 8:10 pm
by MOGGINATOR
damn i wish i had people ask me to do that lol so envious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

great score and cant wait to see its progression

Re: Gifted Azalea

Posted: November 9th, 2015, 9:15 pm
by alpineart
Hi Graeme , mate its a very good score here . I plan to grow an Azalea forest using the existing trunks as individual trees rather than hack it of at the base and start again . The base is 130 mm and the existing trunks are 250-300mm high as cut back by the owner before it was gifted away . Cant seem to find the time to work the tree's let alone updates :oops: .

Hi MOGGINATOR , plenty of good people out there offering material , anything looking unwanted or removed , be it by digger or hand I always stop and ask if i can salvage it .

Cheers Guys . Alpine