First Collection - ID, advice, and opinions please
Posted: December 16th, 2009, 11:05 am
Hi All,
For the next month I am staying at my parents farm in the Hunter Valley, and can collect any plant I want.
The first I have found is this grouping of an unknown type of tree. There are 20+, all apparantly stunted thanks to cows (none over 30cm, many around 15cm). A few at least caught my eye (plus many more maybes): I have had no luck getting an ID on this plant, I am really hoping it is a native. Here is a closeup of a branch: So, since this is to be my first collection, I was hoping to get some of your professional opinions on the suitability of the plants pictured in becomming bonsai.
-Can anybody ID this plant for me?
-Do you like the shapes of the pictured plants, can you see them as bonsai?
-Can you recommend a collection process? (I plan to water them a lot, and give them some seasol over the next month. Then just dig out as much around each as I can before bare-rooting them to be shipped home. I'll do more research on the actual digging over the next month).
Expect to hear more from me as I find more possible digs.
Thanks for your time
For the next month I am staying at my parents farm in the Hunter Valley, and can collect any plant I want.
The first I have found is this grouping of an unknown type of tree. There are 20+, all apparantly stunted thanks to cows (none over 30cm, many around 15cm). A few at least caught my eye (plus many more maybes): I have had no luck getting an ID on this plant, I am really hoping it is a native. Here is a closeup of a branch: So, since this is to be my first collection, I was hoping to get some of your professional opinions on the suitability of the plants pictured in becomming bonsai.
-Can anybody ID this plant for me?
-Do you like the shapes of the pictured plants, can you see them as bonsai?
-Can you recommend a collection process? (I plan to water them a lot, and give them some seasol over the next month. Then just dig out as much around each as I can before bare-rooting them to be shipped home. I'll do more research on the actual digging over the next month).
Expect to hear more from me as I find more possible digs.
Thanks for your time