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should i have a go at digging this grevillea out? its a nice lil tree. its been cut back alot and will make a great taper on the left. has leaves like a silky oak but they only seem to grow to around 3m

of course you should have a go but i heard they are hard to collect so try and get as much of the fine roots as possible

i always love a good dig


cheers minh

on to it hope its not too late

Hey low legs, personally i dont think this variety of grevillea will make good bonsai. way too course and sparse. jmo.

anttal63 wrote:Hey low legs, personally i dont think this variety of grevillea will make good bonsai. way too course and sparse. jmo.

Thats what they say about peaches and nectarines but i seem to see very nice ones give it a go who knows you might be the only person to have a beatiful grevillea bonsai

p.s if you don't ANT might dig it hahhahahha


cheers minh

Im with Ant

if it where me id save your energy duck down to the local native nursery grab a nice little well suited tree plant it in the ground and work on it from there youll get better results than working with this species and in a shorter time
just because its a native tree dosnt mean it can be bonsai

It looks like one of the myriad hybrid grevillea's around. I am the first to say go for it on a dig, but with these I wouldnt waste my time & effort. Most grevillea are very funny about having there roots worked, in the ground they have a very coarse far spreading root structure with little or no close feeders. If you really like this tree's growth habit bark etc start with a seedling and train it up in a pot from day one.

I raised a batch of seedlings but am down to just 1 out of 40, they really did not like the various experiments I have been trying on them, especially having the tap root cut. The remaining one has just been repotted again & it has actually started to get a decent radial root spread. Will keep working with it till it either dies or becomes something worth showing.

If you do dig this tree, take pics of what & how you did it & let us all know if its successful or not, so we can all learn.

Matt