AusBonsai

http://www.weeds.org.au/cgi-bin/weedide ... l&card=T21
Looks like we have Celtis sinensis. They make pretty good bonsai, maybe someone in the area wants to check it out..

wow what a tree asus. sounds like a good get. any one here collected one of these?

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I don't know about the upping and dying on you. A friend has a celtis bonsai she habitually abuses by lack of water or night watering and while the tree is a long way from what it was when she got it, it still survives. Yes, and yes and yes and yes... I've even offered to buy it from her but I won't pay what she did and she would rather it died under her lack of care then flourished in good care. Some people, even friends, are definitely odd.

These are both Celtis chinensis. Havent seen any sinensis growing around here. They call them Chinese Hackberry.
Peter

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Hector Johnson wrote:Next time ypou're down, Peter, bring a shovel. There's one across the road from my home.

They are quite common Hector, i have one growing here that i am going to dig in Winter, it has a base on it about 12 inches across and is only about 40 or 50 cm high. I was going to do it last year but my body said no leave the thing.
Peter

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Hector Johnson wrote:I have an idea for collecting big trees that I must try out.
It involves a generator and an electric jackhammer.

Yes...lets talk. I have some ideas there also, but mine involves a cheap second hand bobcoat attached to the shovel attachment! Could be fun.

That and a "ditch witch" blade. I swear it's gotta be easier than frigging about with a shovel and a crowbar.

I had a bit of bobcat work to do at home over Christmas, it wasnt enough work to bother getting a bobcat in so i hired a dingo. I used the trencher on it and dug around two trees i had growing at home that i thought i might bonsai, what i great little machine for that. I also used the trencher as a rotary hoe and dug my ground growing area! Works a treat mate. Now all i have to do is convince the wife the i NEED one of them machines!
Peter

boys and their toys sounds like a lot of fun fellas!

Jon knows someone with a hydraulic clamshell bucket (tree spade) specifically designed for lifting trees for transplanting. Next time we all meet I'll hold him down and you get to use a sock filled with birdshot.

thes things grow like crazy on the sunshine coast we dug a few up yesterday

They grow in plague proportions around here (Tamborine Mountain), I'm always having to dig them out from work sites as they're classed as an invasive weed. Good for me though, getting some good material for learning on and they make a nice looking tree to boot!
I was under the impression they were a type of elm, as that's what I had heard people calling them, thus I treated them as such. They just keep growing!