AusBonsai

A good friend of mine recently propagated 6 aussie boab's and gave me a seedling, it was 50 mm tall with the seed pod still on top.. its now 200mm.. still very young and fragile! Container growing advice is scares, from what i can gather they grow in very hot, harsh conditions with sandy, poor soil.. treatment sounds similar to that of the 'desert rose', 'cacti' and 'succulents', i will be using a similar potting mix when i repot in a bit over a year.....
The anticipation is much!!!!:!: These trees are AMAZING!!!! The genus is estimated at 60 million years old!! Gondwanaland times!!!

Anyway i found the article about the one pictured above and thought id share... What an epic repot!!! Hope it survives!

luke

Here it is in its new home... I may have to visit it one day..



luke

Head to the defined garden bonsai nursery at the gold coast man, you'll be pleasantly suprised

Fantastic.... marvelous that it can survive with so few roots left but I guess figs and olives do so why not this. And they would not have gone to all that trouble if it was in doubt. Going to be a STUNNING exhibit.

Hope Skippy sees this... he dug up a magnolia several years ago that would have all but filled a one ton flatbed... This one out does his effort... but then, there are more movers and diggers involved here.

Pup has been our local informant on this project.
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Have you seen it latley Pup?

NathanM wrote:Head to the defined garden bonsai nursery at the gold coast man, you'll be pleasantly suprised

will do nathan! cheers man!

Bretts wrote:Pup has been our local informant on this project.
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Have you seen it latley Pup?

Yeah would be great to hear some first hand thoughts... is it as magic as it looks in pictures pup?
Amazing journey its had!!!

cheers
luke

The fact that these guys were around during the time of Gondwanaland is hard to comprehend is'nt it?? Has anyone bonsai'd one of these guys? Would LOVE to see a photo of it!!