Kunzea ambigua

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Kunzea ambigua

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This one is flowering at the moment . It hasn’t got as many flowers as in the past because of the pot it’s in when it’s in full flower becomes unstable so I pruned a lot of growth off.. Previous years it’s looked like a big white blob on the end of a stick .
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It’s in a Graham Cook pot .
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Re: Kunzea ambigua

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Hi Craig ,Nice chunky material you have and the pot....I can see why you love it. Ripper.
Have a few white blobs at the moment, should no better as it seems to take a long long long time to get moving once they flower .
. Go The Mighty Kunzeas … Cheers John.
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Another good reason to keep persisting with Kunzea. :)
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Re: Kunzea ambigua

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Nice trunk, interesting (natural? or cold-blooded calculation?). Also interesting that you need the top view - I'm starting to suspect that a trunk that's interesting in 3D/reality may not necessarily show well in a straight-on photo. Nice and casual at the business end - I like the flowers, but I'm glad it's not bloated with them.

How old? Any tricks to getting that trunk, and getting it to flower reliably?

Thanks for posting,

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boom64 wrote: November 30th, 2019, 7:59 pm Hi Craig ,Nice chunky material you have and the pot....I can see why you love it. Ripper.
Have a few white blobs at the moment, should no better as it seems to take a long long long time to get moving once they flower .
. Go The Mighty Kunzeas … Cheers John.
Thanks John , I haven’t noticed about the slow to get going after flowering because I repot after flowering and that always slows things down a bit . I give it a hard root prune every year and it fills the pot again to choking every time .
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melbrackstone wrote: December 1st, 2019, 7:17 am Another good reason to keep persisting with Kunzea. :)
Hi Mel ,all the kunzea that I’ve tried have responded well to root pruning ,some of the ones I’ve seen others do are shoehorned into pots that I wouldn’t be game to do , so they can handle the pot side of things . Have you tried your local kunzea ?
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GavinG wrote: December 1st, 2019, 11:56 am Nice trunk, interesting (natural? or cold-blooded calculation?). Also interesting that you need the top view - I'm starting to suspect that a trunk that's interesting in 3D/reality may not necessarily show well in a straight-on photo. Nice and casual at the business end - I like the flowers, but I'm glad it's not bloated with them.

How old? Any tricks to getting that trunk, and getting it to flower reliably?

Thanks for posting,

Gavin
It’s an ex landscape plant that I planted about 25 years . I dug it up about 9 years ago when I first became interested in bonsai . The trunk hasn’t really grown since it was dug up . It was a tangled shrub 1m tall and 1m wide when I dug it . I just cut off all the boring bits ,there is still one straight taperless bit that needs some carving it has to stay because it may look odd without it . It’s flowered every year . It’s starting to flower less because I’m trying to prune it to shape more now before it flowers so I end up cutting off a lot of flower buds .it used to be upright, Grant advised me to tilt it a bit because of the reverse taper and I think you encouraged me to go even further . :D
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Re: Kunzea ambigua

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They're very thin on the ground at nurseries around here Sno. Looking at wiki though, it seems we have Kunzea bracteolata, caduca, calida, capitata, flavescens, graniticola, obovata, opposita, sericothrix and truncata that are native to Qld...

The only one I've managed to keep alive is K baxteri, which I found at a specialist native plant sale...
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