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Japanese winter holly. It requires a male and female plant to set good fruit.
Hopefully I can keep the birds away and see the fruit on the bare branches...
It's only a few years old.

Very nice Mike.

Mine have suffered in the Summer heat. Do you have any growing tips to share?

Regards,
Steven

Steven wrote:Very nice Mike.

Mine have suffered in the Summer heat. Do you have any growing tips to share?

Regards,
Steven

Drying out will harm them badly. semi-shade when hot

Very nice tree Mike, is it seed grown or cutting? Do you sit it in a water tray in summer?
Cheers
Kirky

KIRKY wrote:Very nice tree Mike, is it seed grown or cutting? Do you sit it in a water tray in summer?
Cheers
Kirky

Cutting. No tray but I keep a close eye on it.

that's very nice Mike

Cool tree!
I love flowering and fruiting varieties.
Adds some great interest and imagination.

Yep, lovely little tree.


Bonsai teaches me patience.
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I needed to keep in a cage and the fruit is still on it..

The birds are free, the tree's are caged what we will do to keep the fruit on our beautiful tree's well done Mike
Very nice tree. Will need to look out for one.
Cheers
Kirky

KIRKY wrote:The birds are free, the tree's are caged what we will do to keep the fruit on our beautiful tree's well done Mike
Very nice tree. Will need to look out for one.
Cheers
Kirky

You will need to look for 2, (a male and a female)

Pffff.... its fake. He's cunningly hidden the super glue out of the photo.

They're just stuck on the tree with glue. That old chestnut.

And there are clear skies in the photo for Victoria.... fake

Happy to get two Gerard, the problem is finding them
Cheers
Kirky

Really interesting - Treeman’s is a lovely example. When I don’t know a tree I often just look into the google-verse to see examples - I found one magnificent tree at Bonsai Empire but many other pictures with Jabba trunks that don’t seem balanced (to my eye). I’ll take Mike’s slender example for inspiration. Even if the fruit is glued on!


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Mike - or anyone else for that matter.
Has anyone had much success propegating Ilex serrata from root cuttings?
My Japanese Holly (Ilex crenata) used to throw suckers from surface roots regularly, so I'm presuming these could be similar - although I never actually tried root cuttings.
I hope the fruits lasted for you this season Mike!
Cheers,
Pearcy.