Twisty Moonah’s

[MJL]

When people ask where I get my inspiration for these twisty Moonah’s etc…


… and hence my weird group plantings sometimes.


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[treeman]

Fantastic. My nephew has a property down near the beach with one of these on it. He's not allowed to touch it. It's growing in almost pure sand.

[GavinG]

Thanks Mark. I prefer to think that they are a product of your twisted mind, but evidence of some link to reality is also welcome...

They seem to be quite idiomatic to Melbourne coastal areas - it's interesting that they seem to be quite a "natural" feature of suburbs close to the water.

Thanks for posting,

Gavin

[MJL]

Good to hear from you Mike and Gavin. The Mornington Peninsula has absolutely informed my approach to native bonsai…. And more directly, the National GC and the dunes around Blairgowrie and Sorrento… it is why I am stoked with the Moonah and Paperbark groupings …. they are without a doubt (in my mind) the closest I have come to creating something so random as Moonah’s growing in sand … I have broken nearly every ‘rule’ to get them there - I’ve twisted long branches and then plugged them back into the soil so they themselves root, I break rather than clean cut, and yes I could and should have followed foundational steps to increase truck girth etc ….. but … they are fun and wild and they make me think of trees like these.


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