AusBonsai

Hi guys, since my last post on the African Lilac, I discovered 2 things:

1: The flowers are two tone (see photo)
2. Some of you wanted to see what a mature bonsai tree looks like. Well I recently contacted Charles Ceronio, bonsai author from Sth Africa. He generously gave me permission to post a photo of one of his Lilacs. He told me he is in the process of writing a book about African species suitable for Bonsai........should be good. In just over 2 weeks his club in Pretoria are celebrating their 40th anniversary with an exhibition.

www.pretoriabonsaikai.org

"We will have, as part of our local demonstrators, also Vaclac Novak of the
Czech Republic, Mario Leal from Brazil[A specialist in Saikai] and Ferrand
Bloch, editor of Bonsai Today."

thanks for the effort Jester, nice looking tree. It would be a sight in flower

No worries mate, you're welcome. I agree with you entirely though, it would be good to see one in full flower AND fruit at the same time. I could'nt believe how difficult it was to actually find a photo of a mature African Lilac when I started researching the species. I might have mentioned in one of my previous posts, there is in fact one massive example at the Chinese gardens but because the area is cordoned off, it is extremely difficult to get close enought to get a decent photo......very frustrating. There are one or 2 others available on the net but the resolution is not crash hot and they too are not in flower.