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Matta
What ended up the front,trying to get a perspective on what you chose ABCDEF or I
Will turn out a nice tree in a year or two.

Thanks Doggy, another year or 2 to develop the basic branch structure a few more should see it where it is in my head.

H turned a little back towards G.

Edit: I didnt feel a comparison between H & now showed it well so redid the pic. As the front stands somewhere between the 2....

Some fascinating work and discussion on this little one. I greatly enjoyed reading through the comments.

With the range of views on the best 'front', I'm inclined to say that little time needs to spent on deciding that. The tree should look good all around, though you might want to take several pictures, where only one 'f'ront' can be seen at a time .

I wonder if some info on what leptos look like in extreme situations would help with the virting of possible canopies? For my eyes, the suggestions so far look beautiful and elegant, but just don't match the concept of letpo....

Roger

Roger, thanks for your input into this littlun. While I agree that a tree should look good from all sides, it is often only from one perspective that you can truly get into the tree & understand it fully.

I am going slowly with the styling at the moment mainly because I am not 100% on the final canopy. Pictures of wild lepto's in extreme situations would be of great help should I go the second way, naturalistic similar to the one in the banner. The first choice however, is, tight flat pads similar to this...

Roger is right !!! wild, windswept and broomy is the go on these trees !!!

anttal63 wrote:Roger is right !!! wild, windswept and broomy is the go on these trees !!!

Ant, think you could do a virt for me please?

The basic framework is now in place it just needs filling out. If want a better pic let me know.

Here are a couple of wild (ish) Leptos from Port Phillip - they have dynamic trunks, and really incongruous foliage blobs sitting on top. It may be what they look like in the suburban wild, but I'm not sure that I want that look.
The next branch is actually a Casuarina, but it has a "wild" look - you can feel the wind blowing through it.
My feeling is that solid tight pads may not sit well with the rugged trunks, and light, open-spaced scattered leaves (pretty much as you have, axctually) will suit the feeling of the tree.

Hope this is confusing enough,

Gavin

Thanks for the pics Gavin, less confusing than my own visual imagery Its the blobby foliage of wild trees that is steering me away from the naturalist school but I guess even a 'wild naturalist' bonsai is controlled so ...

If you can hear the wind, and feel the isolation, then to hell with scale-modelling. At least that's my 2c.

Gavin

I am still trying to decide if its on the hillside, the ridge or just growing against another tree with the wind blowing it back

Ash's Leptospermum is a good example to emulate... viewtopic.php?f=136&t=8451&p=93247&hili ... mum#p93247

A repeat of the original series of pics 6mths on. Still working it out as it grows, am considering carving the deadwood to allow a change in planting angle or on suggestion from a nonbonsai mate that it could be 2 seperate trees its another possibility given each trunk has its own root system and no connected live wood....

Ok not sure whats going on with the site but the pics where there, then they were not & now some are but others not. These are the ones missing from the series as it appears now but who knows later...

Ok, now I am confused... when I look at the thread the pics posted last night don't show up but when I go into the post reply they appear in the review topic section at the bottom. Can one of the mods have a look & see whats going on?

That is really weird Matt, I had to post a reply to try it out and you're right. Wonder what's going on there?

At any rate, nice tree! Hard to pick a front as they all look good for different reasons, at least to me. I like the pot too, though I know you mentioned earlier in the thread that it was a bit of a "learning experience". You guys that make your own pots make me want to try that too. I'll probably want to try a lot more when my trees start to get good enough to deserve nice pots. So maybe in a decade or so I'll look at taking up pottery.