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Once again I'm offering feral trident maple seedlings from our garden.
3 sizes:
- thin (under 3mm thick) only 50c each. Suit bending projects or growing on. - medium (around 3-6mm thick) $1 each. Still Ok for bending but these snap if you try to bend too far. Great to thread through metal plates to get better future nebari or multi trunk trees.
- larger (6mm and more) $2 each but there's limited numbers. Prune these down to get good taper or use a larger one as feature tree in a group.
Allow for delivery costs depending on how many and what size. Min delivery is $15 but I'll need to calculate larger orders according to size and weight.

All seedlings will be sent bare rooted as they came out of the ground, just wrapped in a plastic bag. Can be stored with the roots buried for weeks if required.
I'm happy to try to select seedlings that suit your projects so if you have something specific in mind tell me and I'll try to match the seedlings to your needs.
Group plantings are a common request. 20 trees of mixed sizes makes a good start (you don't have to use all of them. having a few extras is useful in case a couple just don't match the others) 20 trees suitable for group planting $20

Just in case anyone is concerned about the viability of tridents surviving delivery through Auspost here's one from last year This is tree is from a lost delivery (I made a slight mistake in the suburb address ). We followed the package on Auspost tracking. It went to Sydney then back to Melbourne and back to Sydney again before finally being returned to sender 3 weeks after I packed them. When it arrived the roots looked a bit dry but I really wanted to check how resilient trident maples really are so I root pruned as normal and potted up a number then watered them well. As you can see, trident maple seedlings can laugh off 3 weeks in a cardboard box.

PM or email neil@shibuibonsai.com.au with requests or for more details.

Hi shibui, Email sent. Thanks

I also have a limited number of Japanese maple seedlings. There aren't any larger ones. A few medium sized ones, some small and some really small. Similar to the tridents - just straight from the garden beds - so don't expect great roots.
Due to the limited numbers these will be $1 each and you'll just get a mix of sizes as they come.

Mail sent

There's still plenty of trident seedlings for those who want some. Now that maple season has opened the Head Gardener keeps bringing bucketfuls for me to sort and store in case someone wants a few.
I've put together a bulk order for 1000 and quite a few smaller orders have already been posted off to SA, NSW and a few up to QLD.

A few smaller tridents and Japanese Maples went up to Sydney for this weekend Ausbonsai Studio shohin Comprehensive with Koji Hiramatsu to demonstrate wiring and bending to develop better shohin maples.
Other possible uses for trident seedlings - fuse a bunch into a thicker trunk; graft roots or branches onto older trees; start a group planting; grow on for a large trunk maple; twin or multi trunk bonsai.

There's still Japanese maple seedlings available @$1 each.
I'll be threading some of them through my aluminium plates to see if that will produce better root structure - viewtopic.php?f=7&t=27157 but they are also useful for grafting roots onto older bonsai or just to grow on as future JM bonsai.
I noticed at least 1 Euonymus seedling the other day and saw a Leptospermum rotundifolium seedling on the side of the driveway this morning. There may even be some other species about.

I also had to get the suckers off a weeping flowering cherry last week so there's a few of those available. Note that they are not Japanese flowering cherry. It will be the rootstock- probably Mazzard cherry. You could try to grow cherry bonsai or use to graft some other more desirable cherry variety.

I'll be taking trees down to BNW show July 26,27 so for Melbourne members that's a chance to get yours post free. Make sure you give me enough warning to get yours packed well before we leave on the Friday.

I've put together a bulk order for 1000

terryb wrote: ↑July 12th, 2019, 5:28 pm

I've put together a bulk order for 1000

Wasn’t me....!

Even 1000 has hardly put a don't in the numbers of small and medium seedlings in the garden but it will mean that one other bonsai producer will have more advanced tridents in a couple of years.
I haven't even started on these spots: There are more articles on different ways to use trident seedlings to develop future bonsai on my blog pages:
http://shibuibonsai.com.au/

Projects with trident seedlings;
http://shibuibonsai.com.au/?p=1489

Pm sent

The man from Yackandandah placed some bait of a hook and this fish had a crack. Not 1000 though!

That said, getting close to raising the bat for a half century .... Hey, everyone knows I love a forest and I do not have one trident maple in my collection... now I do - well soon. Looking forward to picking them up at BNW in a few weeks time.

Thanks Shibui. Appreciated.

Mine arrived Today, could not be happier! I've put 4 through plates, made 2 lots of twin trunks through plates and 2 root over rocks

One of the ferals resembles a stick in a pot I paid $95 for!!

Great to hear you are happy Snipz.
You can just forward the $93 balance whenever you are ready

Unread post by shibui » Today, 11:59 am

Great to hear you are happy Snipz.
You can just forward the $93 balance whenever you are ready

Hi im new to ausbonsai i was wondering how i go to get 20 or these i want to make a forest,i.have a few larger one.so.id like to surround them with a heap of these im.not sure how i pay etc or go about it.

Hi Kriss666,
Welcome to Ausbonsai.
On Ausbonsai you can send PM (private message) to any other member. Click on the member's name and a new page will open and give you the member's profile and a contact section. Click on 'send private message and type a message in the box then press send.
note that PMs sit in your outbox until the recipient opens it up from their end.
To contact me email is easier and the address is at the bottom of the first post of this thread.

After that we can discuss the cost, how to pay and any other you need to find out.

Look forward to hearing from you soon.