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Nice trees Sno.

BTW, I found the instructions to your chinese elm

[quote=delisea post_Did you start it from an airlayer?
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Hi Symon . It was a small Elm i found growing in a pot at the local tip . I planted it in the ground and did a trunk chop a couple of years later . I wasn’t planning on a broom the buds just popped around the chop so I went with what it gave me .
Cheers Craig

Formerly Waltron wrote: ↑September 20th, 2022, 1:06 pm Nice trees Sno.

BTW, I found the instructions to your chinese elm

Thanks .
Bugger , I missed ‘ step 7 ‘ now I will have to unknot it and start again .

Sno wrote: ↑September 20th, 2022, 6:30 pm [quote=delisea post_Did you start it from an airlayer?

Hi Symon . It was a small Elm i found growing in a pot at the local tip . I planted it in the ground and did a trunk chop a couple of years later . I wasn’t planning on a broom the buds just popped around the chop so I went with what it gave me .
Cheers Craig
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Hey Craig,
That's one of the things that I love about bonsai, you can makes something beautiful out of rubbish. Great tree!
Cheers,
Symon

I repotted this literati style Leptospermum laevigatum today into a pot by Graham . I have had this tree in out of various pots over the years but I think this pot suits it really well . I’ve showed this tree somewhere before although since then I have turned it around and now the back is the new front . The right hand lower branch will be probably removed when it settles into the new pot .

Ahhh, literati native plants, just love idea and the looks.

Yeah, clearly far too many branches on it...

Seriously, I think you could lose that lowest right branch if you keep some of the top foliage down that side. It's very elegant, and it sits very happily in the pot, for me.

Nice work,

Gavin

GavinG wrote: ↑October 23rd, 2022, 1:06 pm Yeah, clearly far too many branches on it...

Seriously, I think you could lose that lowest right branch if you keep some of the top foliage down that side. It's very elegant, and it sits very happily in the pot, for me.

Nice work,

Gavin

Maybe not lose but reduce a lot , the lowest right hand branch in 3d gives you depth because it’s a back branch . I still don’t really know how much you can cut off without the tree failing . I’ve seen some native bonsai species around the traps with very little foliage left on . The problem is I’ve only seen them once . When I cut a lot off it takes a long time for the tree to recover and for me winter is always coming .

The Berberis is flowering at the moment so worth another look .

Very pretty flowers, quite a contrast to the rough and rugged bark texture.
Beautifully composed.

Nice work with the Berberis, they clearly like you more than me...

Guilty as charged on cutting back natives too hard - I can get away with it when they are growing on in black pots, but once they are living with a smaller root ball in a bonsai, I've had a few die off when I've cut the top hard at the same time as I've worked hard on the roots. Acacias and Baeckeas particularly.

G