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Posted on Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 03:19 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I hope you lot don't think I have abandoned my bonsai. I'm just letting most of them grow, and that could take another 20 years...
I havent posted in ages, because in winter nothing grew much, and in spring I am frantically trying to deal with herbs. Summer is a time to relax and spend time on my hobby plants, rather than my 'work' plants.
My Christmas present was a prostrate juniper, from the clearance corner. Actually two, but the other is not going to be bonsai, it is going to spill gracefully down a slope and over a retaining wall. With luck. I took a cutting of one of these last year with bonsai in mind, which is growing nicely. I will probably get another bunch of cuttings from the 'potentsai' one when I decide what has to go in the first pruning.
I collected a bunch of little oaks in spring, now I have a few to grow on. The olive, willow and flowering ash are all growing away really well, a couple of the olives I lifted are also alive, but I am going to need DH and an axe to remove the dead bits from the clump of roots.
I have a few other things which are patiently growing away, but it will be a long time before they get anywhere near training. Photos will follow later.

Greth - South Australia, Zone "?"
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Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 12:45 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Here are some little pine trees I found by the side of the road.
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Now, I want to plant one out to be shade for our farm, and another can become bonsai, question, which is which?
Always supposing they survive, not a certainty with temps over 100F.

Greth - South Australia, Zone "?"
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Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 06:39 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Hi Greth,happy new year! The one on the left looks thicker so i'd say that one. But pines are incredibly slow growing so it will need to be in the ground for several years before considering training it as bonsai. I reckon by then your little girl will be leaving high school! ;)

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Posted on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 01:02 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Yes, I like that one. They are soaking in water until we have a cool change and I can put them into potting mix. Lucky not to get arrested pulling them up - it turns out the local arsonist (of at least 40 bushfires last summer and this) was a lady in her 40's with small children, actually an acquaintance of mine from playgroup. Even middle aged mums aren't trusted anymore.
I must photo the other trees for you, a couple are quite pleasing.
Oh, and which little girl, Larry? I'm expecting another one in March!

Greth - South Australia, Zone "?"
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Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 10:18 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Congratulations, Greth!!

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Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 12:48 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Yes Congratulations! In March eh, my Katie is 4 in March!

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Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2008 - 12:38 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Greth wrote on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 - 01:02 pm:



Hey Greth! Not heard from you in a while. How is that baby doing?

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Posted on Monday, May 12, 2008 - 06:13 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Just over 2 months now, doing really well, but up to her first round of immunizations. Her name is Ellen Jean (our little Ej!) if you missed that.
Bonsais not so happy, had to cut down water to the shadehouse in summer. The little olive is coming along nicely tho, and I've been hunting at the nurseries for conifers. The bargain areas are really full at the moment, the heatwave has set back lots of nursery plants, and people aren't buying much with water restrictions in place. I've picked up a few nice junipers that way, haven't had a chance to get working on them while the baby is still taking up my time.
Currently trying to mulch the garden beds, get the veggie patch moving and finish the retaining wall in my copious spare time!

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Posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 04:27 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Good to hear the baby's doing well!

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Posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 06:25 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Yes, indeed Greth,

So glad baby Ellen Jean is doing so well, busy times for you, looking after EJ, normal house chores and bonsai as well, I know where you're at

I really appreciate what you are saying about your 'water restrictions'.

I was in Australia for 6 weeks during the whole month of March, this was all to do with 'Parchment Craft' (my favourite winter hobby).

I came to Australia with a Dutch friend of mine and we held many 'workshops' for the Australian ladies - and what a lovely bunch of ladies there are, I've never known such hospitality and friendliness, and WOW the thing us foreigners do not realise until we come to visit is the VASTNESS of Australia.

You still have 'space' and we have lost that with all our 'built up areas'.

I first visited Queensland, in the vicinity of Brisbane and Toowoomba, then flew down to Melbourne, stayed with friends on Mount Eliza (near Frankston), in Victoria.

I was so lucky, my Australian friends took me everywhere. Visited animal sancturies, then on to Ballarat to Sovereign Hill, even went down the gold mine and stayed for the night 'Light & Vision' show - Blood on the Southern Cross - boy was that impressive.

Later on moved on to South Australia, stayed in Murray Bridge, visited Barosse Valley and all the vineyards.

But driving from one state to another, I now understand your 'lack of rainfall problem' - some places we drove through were just like 'moonscape'.

Will never forget my visit to your beautiful country, hope to return in 2010

Kath Zone 8b UK
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Posted on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 05:46 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Sheesh, Murray Bridge is only half an hour from here (my second nearest town with supermarkets!), you should have waved at least as you went past!
The 'moonscape' parts can surprise tho, after heavy rains lots of opportunistic 'annual' plants grow up quickly and can cover vast areas with wildflowers. Then they die down again, maybe for years until the next batch of desert storms.

Greth - South Australia, Zone "?"
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Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 03:16 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

A thousand apologies Greth, next time I visit, I'll make sure I contact you beforehand. There is a chance we will be back there in January 2010, but that's not definite yet

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Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 05:03 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Ouch, January is hot hot hot! Do get in touch tho, I would love to be a native guide.

Greth - South Australia, Zone "?"
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Posted on Friday, May 16, 2008 - 12:58 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I'm lucky, I love the heat take care

Kath Zone 8b UK

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