AusBonsai

It is amazing that 2 years ago I thought that we had nothing to collect around here. I have since found that many invasive species are hiding among our natives.
This year I am leaving the nectarines alone and think hawthorn will be a good subject(tongue in cheek) Side note; do nectarine back bud?
Any way since Your Hawthorn was #1(insinuating more?) I could not resist a challenge
This is the first two of the season
I was cautious and have given an inch or three for surface root formation.

your not right, but i love what you've collected. very nice pieces here mr bretts with some nice carving to dive into too.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN !!!

bretts warning; i can feel it in my bones! someone else is about to enter this game and blow both of us out of the water1

hey antonio, you must have ESP, I wouldn't mind havin a swing at a "hawthoff".
I will draw my guns & place them & the pictures on the table in the next day or so. see ya then, miyagiman.

miyagiman wrote:hey antonio, you must have ESP, I wouldn't mind havin a swing at a "hawthoff".
I will draw my guns & place them & the pictures on the table in the next day or so. see ya then, miyagiman.

look forward to them pal!

LOL I was slowing down on my hawthorn collecing. Might be the motivation I need. Can't wait to see them

geezzzzzzzzzz! my beard will be down to my knees at this rate.

you can cut your beard tomorrow evening, i'll call you if i have any trouble, dave.

Here is a bit of a laugh for you while you wait.
This is one of my first trees from a Ray $8 starter. When I posted on the IBC all I wanted to know was whether I could thicken lower branches to overtake the top ones.
All I got was a discussion about sticking it back in the ground.
I finally relented stuck it in the ground a year later with no root work as no one explained that to me.
Here we are today almost 4 years later. Either hawthorn grow real slow or it disliked the conditions some how.
I thought it was time to pull it out of the ground and see if I could do better from a pot. It always seemed healthy enough and although penjing like, the roots where healthy.
I will play around with this for a while before I decide whether to fix the root base or stick with a penjing style base.
For some reason I am thinking I can get better growth with my collected ones.

ok, i've loaded the guns, now i'm just trying to lay 'em on the table. there are 3 trees with 2 photos of each. i'll have to load each tree with a separate post, i somehow need to adjust the camera in future for pixel size, but this will have to do for now. sorry for the inconvenience, i'll get better at it as i go. this tree was dug 12 months ago. cheers, dave.

well done dave! ya got ya first. i love this one its even better in person.
pretty impressive the amount of new growth there. any hints for us freshy's?

ok, that worked. this is the second tree. this was dug 2 years ago, i left too much on the first year & decided to cut it back & start again. it has 12 months growth on it & will need some carving, dave.

the root spread on this one is amazing for collected!

rightio, tree number 3. this was dug 4 years ago & is a really crazy tree. it has taken a while to come up with a design for this one, in the meantime, i've kept it cut back hard, dave.

wow the carving potential on this one! i look forward to seeing what you do with this one.

so far i think you've shot the place up pal. gotta wait and see what jezz is gonna come with next.