AusBonsai

Hi all i dug this shrub out of the garden it was less than a meter tall . could some one please help me identify it .I think it has White flowers . the roots were spread was non existent.

I think it is a gardenia. Does it smell really nice? The flowers, not the leaves.

Is the plant in the background of the second picture the same plant? Thats where I got my ID from. It looks like it has some defiancy too. I think iron.

yea according to the misses it does . so you are probably right .thank you .

Yea Matt there was too of them the one i dug was a lot more healthy green looking . I didn't think they were supposed to have yellow leaves .Thanks for that , I justed googled gardenia bonsai and they were all styled like azaleas . should i treat these like azaleas ?

I don't grow either of them sorry. I often see them with sooty mold and yellow leaves. I think they can be pretty finicky.

hi mate

yep you can style like azalea. not sure bout soil conditions (as in azalea like acidic conditions). you should get some profuse flowering but I am undeer the impression (not 100% sure) that they like to flower on new wood. so maybe specific pruning will help with this.

Hi matt_95, if it is a gardenia, check this web page out...it isn't for bonsai, but it says that they do like an acidic soil etc...
Hope it is of some use?
http://search.abc.net.au/search/search. ... y=gardenia
Dario.

Thanks Dario, but I'm not the one with the gardenia





solved---- gardenia