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new trees Lilly Pilly and Bottle Brush

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Hi

Just picked these up today at a nursery closing down sale, cost me 25 bucks all up
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2 lilly pillies and 3 captain cooks, I will post some better pics tomorrow when I do some work on them.

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Well I finally had a chance to work on these today they all have some problems to overcome.

The 2 Lilly pillies where In a a very soggy soil and had a fair bit of root rot starting. I stripped out all of the rotten roots I could get to, chopped them both down and repotted.

I did take a few cuttings which should be good for minis if they take. Any tips are welcome for this as none of my previous Lilly pilly cuttings have taken.

The bottle brushes on the other hand had a slightly different problem. They were very very pot bound. Not just potbound but potbound 3 times each from where they had been repotted previously.
The only part of the roots that were getting any water were inbetween each layer and around the outside of the pot.

These also received a fairly hefty root pruning, and have been repotted a bit better than before.

Pictures will be coming shortly, when my Internet starts working again

cheers Regan
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Re: new trees Lilly Pilly and Bottle Brush

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Regan wrote:Hi

Just picked these up today at a nursery closing down sale, cost me 25 bucks all up
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2 lilly pillies and 3 captain cooks, I will post some better pics tomorrow when I do some work on them.

Cheers Regan
Wonderful bargain Regan, cant wait to see the after pics.

Cheers Eddie
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Re: new trees Lilly Pilly and Bottle Brush

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hey Regan nice stock....and at an excellent price :D

just wondering which nursery it was thats closing down?

look forward to seeing the progression of these

cheers Gott :)
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Re: new trees Lilly Pilly and Bottle Brush

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Hi Gott

it is out on the southside, there has been an ad in the courier the last couple of weekends, I think I've still got the paper here somewhere if I can find it I'll letyou know where it is

cheers Regan
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Re: new trees Lilly Pilly and Bottle Brush

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Hi gott

292 esky rd pallara

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Thanks Regan
might have to go take a look...
good luck with your trees

cheers Gott
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Re: new trees Lilly Pilly and Bottle Brush

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There wasn't a lot left, some lily pillies bottlebrush and a heap of bougies mostly small bougies but everything is cheap

I hope my trees go alright too, I worked one of them pretty heavily hopefully I didn't push it too far

cheers Regan
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