Australian Native Bonsai Trees

Yes they grow in a sunburned country but a lot of them like a lot of water and it is often necessary to keep some species in water trays especially in the summer.

Australian native bonsai trees. The featured image above a coastal tea tree leptospermum laevigatum is one of lee s australian native bonsai. The designs that i work to are designs that look like australian plants in my case rather than a japanese plant here s an example of a native bonsai. It was dug from the ground in october 1999 about 6. This is hakea microcarpa small fruited.

Species training and growing information natives and exotic australian native species acacia acmena smithii agonis flexuosa angophora costata athrotaxis babingtonia virgata banksia brachychiton. Its growth form varies from dense compact shrubs in lowland regions to small trees in mountain areas. Casuarina cunninghamiana river sheoak. In training since about 1992 it has been progressively put into larger pots as it has matured.

B marginata is native to southeastern australia and is the most frost hardy banksia. Oyster bay pine callitris rhomboidea a native pine. More will be featured at later dates. This tree was a present from the birds.

The small leaves help with the scale of this plant as a bonsai specimen. This is a large bonsai banksia integrifolia that belies its age of only about 40 years. Melaleuca styphelioides as bonsai this is of course just one of the great diversity of melaleuca species native to many parts of australia. Repot on the hottest day of the year.

A great example of australian native bonsai and is in its own right a feature of australian bonsai. It came up near my pond. Coastal tea tree the coastal tea tree was purchased as a stock tree from the victorian native bonsai show and was subsequently styled. Ausbonsai australian native bonsai awards 2012.

Others of this genus vary widely in their growth habits leaf shapes bark characteristics and most of these other species are also readily grown as bonsai. This tree was obtained as young nursery stock in 2002 and grown in the ground for four years with some cutting back during this time. Australian native plants as bonsai 2006. Rose sheoak is a medium sized tree native to the surrounds of rainforest areas in eastern and coastal queensland and nsw.

The pot selected is from adelaide bonsai pottery south australia.