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Melaleuca Madness
I can't say it's a good thing but here are a couple of melaleucas which were collected this Winter.


Melaleuca 1 Melaleuca 2
Cheers

Melaleuca 3.
Melaleuca 4
Cheers.

Wow, some nice looking trees there craig. Got some nice trunks and movement. Will look great in no time.

Josh

Busy collection year you have had Craig. Top stuff too
The first one will offer quite a few ideas I think, but for me the second one will make an extremely nice semi cascade

Ken

G,day Craig you certainly have a more prolific site the I. Although as you know, being older and more feeble. I have stopped collecting and, am now culling the larger trees in my collection.

I concede to you young man you are doing a wonderful job in promoting both Melaleuca and Australian natives.

Keep up the good work.

Cheers Pup.

Mmmmmmmm.....

Big juicy paperbark stumps.  Mmmmmmm......

Good movement in a number of them. Please keep posting them as they develop.

(Deeply, deeply jealous...)

Gavin

kidsandall wrote:Wow, some nice looking trees there craig. Got some nice trunks and movement. Will look great in no time.

Josh

Cheers Josh,

kcpoole wrote:Busy collection year you have had Craig. Top stuff too
The first one will offer quite a few ideas I think, but for me the second one will make an extremely nice semi cascade

Ken

Ken , ahh a little bit , 35 collected melaleucas at present the second is a very nice tree in the making i agree, cheers mate.

Pup wrote:G,day Craig you certainly have a more prolific site the I. Although as you know, being older and more feeble. I have stopped collecting and, am now culling the larger trees in my collection.

I concede to you young man you are doing a wonderful job in promoting both Melaleuca and Australian natives.

Keep up the good work.

Cheers Pup.

There's no contest mate, You win . i could never hope to know all that you know about Melaleucas but I try.
In the last 2 years I have known you, I have drawn all my inspiration to learn about these wonderful trees from you, so to you I say Thankyou

GavinG wrote:Mmmmmmmm.....

Big juicy paperbark stumps. Mmmmmmm......

Good movement in a number of them. Please keep posting them as they develop.

(Deeply, deeply jealous...)

Gavin

Mmmm..
I'll grow #4 just for you, as I believe it'll be the best of all.Cheers Gavin..




melaleuca 5.

Melaleuca 6.
Thanks again, enjoy.

Thanks for the offer Craig. When you bring no.4 over, you can bring no.6 as well. Oh, and the hugellii...
The shapes are saying to me that maybe we're not very imaginative when we shape trunks - nature is sometimes seriously wild.

Wonderful scores, all we have here is tussock grass and sheep dung. And Watto's hawthorns, somewhere up the road.

Gavin

Melaleuca #3 is has now begun to reshoot with new shoots opening only 4 weeks after collecting. Warmer temps would see this time drop to 2/3 weeks.


fast becoming a favorite mel of mine , they reshoot easier and more reliably than most rhaphiophyllas.
These i like to completely remove all old soil right from the get go.