AusBonsai

Hi all,

this is a nursery bought Bottlebrush with a pink flower, I bought many years ago that I am hoping to create something with in time.
Feb 2013
Jan 2014
early Oct 2016
today's before photo
after being trimmed, wired, styled and repotted into an early 42 mice pot.

Any thoughts and comments are welcomed and appreciated.

Cheers

David

Great progression, thanks for showing it. Interesting to see a relatively small tree in such good flower so what ever you are doing it likes it.

Coming along nicely will be a nice tree very soon.

Cheers Pup

Hi all,

Watto wrote:Great progression, thanks for showing it. Interesting to see a relatively small tree in such good flower so what ever you are doing it likes it.

Cheers Watto, I can't say I am doing anything special apart from water and feed it haha but the flowers this year on it meant the world to me.

Pup wrote:Coming along nicely will be a nice tree very soon.

Cheers Pup

Thank you Pup, I am humbled by your comment and it means the world. I hope to do it justice, I have read your thread on Callistemon pruning and will continue to read it as it is a wealth of information so thank you mate. Without that, I would be lost.

I will update again in a few months.

Cheers

David

Great little tree David and I'm loving the new pot and outhouse. Very Aussie

That is lovely David. I like where you are taking this. Very nice mate.

Hi all,

Thanks Fruitfly and Rory for the kind words.

A quick update on this one. It has grown well since being repot and I will now stop trimming until after flowering.
I will update it again when it is flowering.

Cheers

David

That's some very nice ramification on quite a small bottlebrush. I can see a bit of time and effort spent on this one David - nice work!

Did you keep it well moist through the Sydney summer? Gravel tray or submerged in a saucer? It certainly looks like it is loving life!

I love the ascent!! Great combination.

Hi all,

Thank you Steve and JPB for your comments, they mean a lot and I appreciate them.

Steve, I keep this sitting in a water tray all year round and it hasn't looked back. In summer, like many of my smaller natives, I have them sitting in water trays and I will water in the morning, on hot days by midday i will fill up the tray again, then by 5-6pm will fill it up again and by morning it will be dry as a bone, if it hasn't rained overnight. I CANNOT FATHOM on how much our natives can suck up water, when its available to them)

I didn't get any flowers this season but plenty of good growth. I had the camera out today and took an update
*31 Dec 2017

Happy that is it healthy and progressing but its a long way off yet.

Cheers

Willow

David,

Excellent mate, love the pot.

John(JP)
CBS

Ditto John ..nailed it,,look at your natives all day

Anthony