AusBonsai

Hi All, This is one of the larger Coastal Tee Trees i dug in Spring (4 went to god 6 are going great) so i thought i would start wiring , i have not removed any branches as i wanted to see how they went with heavy bending and wiring,the smaller ones i did are going gang busters.
john m

John I like where you are heading with this tree. When I was on the Mornington Peninsula last year. We were shown the area, my mouth was drooling at these trees.

I pointed out to our Chauffeur Adrian, what wonderful wind Blown, trees they were, and the style should be used more. Instead of cutting every thing off and using just one trunk.

Please keep us posted on there progress.

Cheers Pup

Pup and John you are both right- severely wind blown trees, particularly coastal trees, seldom have one trunk but rather have several recumbent trunks just like this one. I would keep them all John. The layout you have is natural and the removal of trunks will not make it any more so. I am surprised that bottle of Crown didn't blow over in the wind though.
cheers
Ash

I like this very much, John.

The only things I would change is the direction of the branches indicated with black and I would also remove the top part of the branch to the left. The first growth takes the beating of the wind and is always spares.
Lennard

Thanks Pup & Ash, these are three of the smaller trees i wired about a month ago,one thing i have noticed is that you get a stronge flush of growth after wiring and bending.
john m

Nice trees John The first pic is it possible, to get them both going in the same direction, at least foliage wise. I do find that a bit disturbing as it appears as I say, to be Mother and father fighting.

Mum in the kitchen and dad in the lounge, totally opposite to each other. Just a thought.

Cheers Pup

john m wrote:One thing i have noticed is that you get a stronge flush of growth after wiring and bending.
john m

John I have observed the same phenomena when cultivated stock is wired, particularly for species that naturally occur in windswept environments. For Leptospermum wooranooran I get good back budding and stem thickening if I wire the branches and bend or twist them slightly. I wonder if back budding and stem thickening is an adaptation to wind damage in these species? A hypothesis worth testing...

Ash

Hi Ash, these trees can take a real beating and thrive,i will post progress pics in a few months.
john m

Hi John,

Any updates on these trees? I didn't get any shots of these when we visited but they looked great.

Any back budding or was all the new growth from existing?

Grant

Hi All update on the Coasal Tee trees i dug they have all had t
heir first styling and are going great

They are looking very nice, just goes to show whats out there if you go looking, well done

potential for elegance --harsh elegance

Hi John;
Fantastic work on the Coastal Tee Trees, could you tell me what time of the year do you intend to repot. I have several and have been a bit nervous about getting stuck in to them.I have sent way to many trees to the big forest in the sky.
Thanks John.

Nice nice nice - Good to see they are growing well too. I have been thinking about windswept and I reckon that if we temporarily tilted them lee/downwind side up to the light (maybe by chocking the pot) then the leaves would reorient themselves to the light. That way when displayed them in their intended position the leaves would look like they are all being blown the same way. Does that make sense?

cheers
Ash