AusBonsai

Pup wrote:A couple of unexciting collected Natives

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All collected with permission from private land and rescued from construction site of Roadways. All Melaleuca species.

Out of interest Pup, how long was it from collection to the point you called these bonsai. I often see trees collected that would take 5-10 years to be anything special and you could probably grow a better in that time. I dnt think you could improve much on these though. Once again amazing trees crafted by an artist.

Josh

Josh wrote: Out of interest Pup, how long was it from collection to the point you called these bonsai. I often see trees collected that would take 5-10 years to be anything special and you could probably grow a better in that time. I dnt think you could improve much on these though. Once again amazing trees crafted by an artist.

Josh

The below pictures were uploaded to Pup's gallery back in Aug 2009. But that still doesn't tell you when he dug them up. They have changed a bit.









And while you browse his gallery.... fair dinkum...
Take a look at this drop dead gorgeous beast. This is one of the greatest Melaleuca bonsai I have ever seen :

Hello for relevant points all of my trees are collected either on private land , or with a scientific licence for collecting relative flora. With the proviso that it was not sold traded, or given away.

Josh the tree in the national collection was collected on my sons farm in Denmark WA in 1995, on the 20th of February to be precise. The reason I know this it is my late fathers birthday. In 2001 it was given a merit award by Ernie Kuo, he was the headliner for the convention in Fremantle that year.

Most of my trees go from collection to show tables in 4 years, some have taken less. Collection time also varies from summer time to winter, and in between.
The semi cascade that is used for the Shohin page was collected in 2005, has always grown in a Bonsai pot again in summer in Denmark.

Cheers Pup.
ps I am always careful about disclosing my collection site where about's.

Pup wrote:Hello for relevant points all of my trees are collected either on private land , or with a scientific licence for collecting relative flora. With the proviso that it was not sold traded, or given away.

Josh the tree in the national collection was collected on my sons farm in Denmark WA in 1995, on the 20th of February to be precise. The reason I know this it is my late fathers birthday. In 2001 it was given a merit award by Ernie Kuo, he was the headliner for the convention in Fremantle that year.

Most of my trees go from collection to show tables in 4 years, some have taken less. Collection time also varies from summer time to winter, and in between.
The semi cascade that is used for the Shohin page was collected in 2005, has always grown in a Bonsai pot again in summer in Denmark.

Cheers Pup.
ps I am always careful about disclosing my collection site where about's.

Thanks Pup, they have come along way since collecting. Surely you can tell me were you collect from, I won't tell anyone-I promise I loved Denmark, camped there when we travelled around oz.

Josh

Josh wrote:

Pup wrote:Hello for relevant points all of my trees are collected either on private land , or with a scientific licence for collecting relative flora. With the proviso that it was not sold traded, or given away.

Josh the tree in the national collection was collected on my sons farm in Denmark WA in 1995, on the 20th of February to be precise. The reason I know this it is my late fathers birthday. In 2001 it was given a merit award by Ernie Kuo, he was the headliner for the convention in Fremantle that year.

Most of my trees go from collection to show tables in 4 years, some have taken less. Collection time also varies from summer time to winter, and in between.
The semi cascade that is used for the Shohin page was collected in 2005, has always grown in a Bonsai pot again in summer in Denmark.

Cheers Pup.
ps I am always careful about disclosing my collection site where about's.

Thanks Pup, they have come along way since collecting. Surely you can tell me were you collect from, I won't tell anyone-I promise I loved Denmark, camped there when we travelled around oz.

Josh

He has a shotgun for drop bears.

I was just researching shimpaku juniper and found info in the Backgrounds section of the following article that relates to the native 'yamadori' conversation. What I found most interesting is that this 'tradition' isn't as old as I expected.
http://kuromatsubonsai.com/evergreen-bo ... er-bonsai/