Spring arriving

[TimS]

Here in Melbourne my Maples have decided it's time to push out, both Trident and Japanese. The seed grown weepers were first,My Chinese Elms are just starting as well, but no movement from the Ginkgos yet. Interestingly the growth is coming from the side of the trees further from the sun, rather than that which faces the movement of sun throughout the day.

I'm on high alert for aphid as they attacked my trees virtually the moment they leafed out last year, and one of the JM they got to was very weak and did not need an aphid attack at all. That tree has recovered quite well from last year, but i'm giving it another year of pretty much unrestricted growth to get back to full health. I have found a few aphids on a random maple i have, but not anywhere near my bonsai yet. They were dealt with quite easily with a thumb and forefinger.

Anyone else is welcome to post their plants shooting away into here as well, i'd love to see them!

Trident maple

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Japanese Maple

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[Jake fowler]

Here is my Chinese elm. I have another one that has only just started to drop leaves

[shibui]

Spring just arriving up here as well. Some of the Chuinese elms are covered in tiny green buds. A few protected tridents just opening pink buds.
Ginkgo is one of the later opening species along with zelkova, sometimes no leaves until October. It was always difficult selling bare sticks at BSV show early October so i had to put zelkova and ginkgo into the poy house a few weeks earlier to wkae them and make it look like they were alive.

[kcpoole]

I had to defooliate my elms and they have all shot back now about 3 weeks ago.
Tridents are in full spring growth and Japanese ones are just starting to shoot.
Had to Defoliate my Oaks this week as they are all still green and needed to be repotted.
Liquid ambar is not wet into bud swell so will wait another few weeks till they get cut back.

Going to be 25deg here on saturday they say, so IMHO winter over and done with here,

ps I have had only 1 day cold enough to get a little frost on the open grass out the front and none out in theback garden where my trees are

Ken

[Snipz]

Catch up fellas; Spring was so last Month here in QLD!

[melbrackstone]

Catch up fellas; Spring was so last Month here in QLD!

got that right, my peach tree is already covered in new fruit!

[Matthew]

Things just starting to wake up here . -3 this morning but frost was not too severe thank goodness . Some elms are budding and my floribunda crabapple looks like its about to open soon .

[shibui]

Cold overnight here too. The watering system was left on last night so I found all the trees covered in a layer of ice this morning. nothing they ahve not experienced before and won't do any damage but I did find another cheap Chinese pot shattered

New leaves on tridents:

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And on Chinese elms:

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Crab apples also have buds opening:

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And flowers on the white Chaenomeles

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[melbrackstone]

damn, another pot explosion!

I'm fascinated that you guys down south are getting buds breaking with the tridents...even though my peach flowered 2 months ago, none of my tridents are this advanced in their budding. Nor are the Chinese Elms.... I guess they're just confused, since we didn't go under 2° for more than a few days this winter...it was a longer cooler winter nevertheless...

[Snipz]

My recently received bare roots from Neil have burst into life a Week after potting but my elms are confusing each other; 2 are playing the game, 2 are still sleeping but the figs are going bananas lol

[melbrackstone]

ahh, yep, the escapees from down south really go nuts in their first Qld outing, but they settle in after a year or so.

[Raging Bull]

I concur with that Mel. My Chinese elms which I had to defoliate a couple of weeks ago have opened their buds or are just about to. The tridents that went beserk almost as soon as I received them from shibui a couple of years ago have the buds swelling, but look like they may take at least another week to show green. One of the acorns that produced a healthy little seedling already has large leaves and I've had to cut the top off last week because the internodes were getting too long. That's stimulated it into opening dormant buds lower down which I'm pleased about.
It's been so dry up here that I'll have to set the timer on the misters again so I don't have to do that by hand, otherwise the moss I have on a few of my pots gets too dry. But the warm days are certainly going to bring almost all my deciduous trees out in leaf very shortly.

[MJL]

My Chinese and English elms are bursting out but no sign yet from my Japanese elms; they are usually late to the party. Maples will be next to go I reckon... Japanese are more advanced that Tridents so expect them to burst first.

This Chaenomeles has decided to a pop a lovely little flower and leaves are jumping out everywhere.

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The Cedrus Atlantica has popped too.

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[TimS]

Those tridents look amazing Shibui!

Some Prunus around the house.
my motherstock Prunus Mume double Pink has just started flowering. Semi-double white and single white already finished and another one hasn't flowered yet

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Prunus Cerasifera in the garden starting to flower as well

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[TimS]

I was tempted to take a bunch of photos to post in the thread with the photo competition, but since i have commitments already that make it quite impossible for me to get to Canberra at such short notice i will put another photo in here for the continuation of spring

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