Australian Native Bonsai Trees

Rose sheoak is a medium sized tree native to the surrounds of rainforest areas in eastern and coastal queensland and nsw.

Australian native bonsai trees. The bonsai cafe the bonsai cafe the menu. Melaleuca styphelioides as bonsai this is of course just one of the great diversity of melaleuca species native to many parts of australia. A great example of australian native bonsai and is in its own right a feature of australian bonsai. More will be featured at later dates.

Oyster bay pine callitris rhomboidea a native pine. Coastal tea tree the coastal tea tree was purchased as a stock tree from the victorian native bonsai show and was subsequently styled. Repot on the hottest day of the year. B marginata is native to southeastern australia and is the most frost hardy banksia.

The small leaves help with the scale of this plant as a bonsai specimen. 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. Ausbonsai australian native bonsai awards 2012. River sheoak naturally occurs as a tallish tree in sunny stream banks and swampy areas from northern territory through to queensland and southern new south wales.

Casuarina cunninghamiana river sheoak. The featured image above a coastal tea tree leptospermum laevigatum is one of lee s australian native bonsai. It came up near my pond. 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.

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

This tree was a present from the birds. This is a large bonsai banksia integrifolia that belies its age of only about 40 years. Leaves are also variable. Australian native plants as bonsai 2006.

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.