Recent content by Sno

Get a grip mate and stop trolling people that don’t need your shit .

Hi Shima . Your Syzygium that masqueraded as a bottle brush for 70 years is probably a Callistemon citrinus . Syzygium have opposite leaves while Callistemon have alternate or spiral leaves . Very nice tree .

I have a little Crab Apple flowering at the moment .

Chinese Elm , knot style .

Quercus robur just starting to leaf out in a Southern Hemisphere spring .

Berberis

Found this really cool pot , you may recognise the maker . ’ Hokkaido ‘ Elm , just potted into its first pot .

Chinese Elm broom with a dusting of recent snow .

Forgot to include the name of the tree in the Tea Time image . Its an Azalea saotome .

Tea time

It’s Eucalyptus Day in Oz today , I don’t know what were supposed to do . worth a photo . Eucalyptus rubida , common name ‘candlebark ‘

I think the problem is it has dried out at one stage so the roots have died off . I strike cuttings of these in a glass of water all the time . They don’t mind wet feet . The mother plant that I strike the cuttings from is a root over rock that sits permanently in a bowl of water . It definitely...

Casuarina will backbud profusely when pruned hard . You would have no problem turning this tree into a smaller tree . Go back .

One day maybe . I kept on growing the left hand side after I originally made the first Jin just to get a better Jin and now I think I have to keep some of a the left hand side for balance or tilt it or cut more off it or something . Basically I am having fun growing it and seeing where it goes...

A little twisty Juniper . The shari needs redoing , as it’s starting to close over . Close up