AusBonsai

This is another endemic southwest WA euc I've been growing from tubestock to see if it can become bonsai.

An interesting little fact is that it produces one of the hardest and strongest timbers in the world.

I've been up-potting to grow the trunk to become a larger sized tree so it can have a chance at being in proportion. Still very much round juvenile foliage at this stage.
October 2022 after wiring first movement in the trunk.
As it is today, March 2024.

It's certainly healthy!

It looks very promising, and the colour in the new shoots is a real feature! That first branch on the right in the first photo has a lot of interesting angles - I'd be tempted to cut right back to that in December, then grow crazy and cut hard back to anything that added to the angles. It won't do a cascade, but it might lope across the landscape sideways, battered and rising again after every vicious season it has encountered... Just a thought. There are also some interesting angles in the back view of photo 3 if you cut hard. Eucs can give you interesting things if you hack away at them....

Good start, keep posting,

Gavin

Awesome effort on all your progressions Patmet.
Absolutely loving your Eucalyptus progression threads in particular.
Please keep updating these as time goes on for all of us. Such beautiful colours on all your Eucs