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02 Oct Don't do This, Boys and Girls!
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos First published 2nd October 2025 Some years past I set aside two young Japanese maples, each in a 4.1 L Air-Pot Small Seed Tray, to grow on to bonsai. (The bonsai training pot equivalent wasn’t a thing then). The roots of some species will go s..
01 Oct Plant of the Month: October 2025
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos First published 1st October 2025 Bonsai Starter: Green-leaf Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum 'Aoyagi' x) in 4.1 L Air-Pot Container Family: Sapindaceae (includes maples, lychee, and horse chestnut) Genus: Acer (the maples) Botanical/Binomial Nam..
23 Sep Prickly-Leaved Paperbark (Melaleuca styphelioides) Bonsai in an Air-Pot Container - ENQUIRIES TO PURCHASE WELCOME
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos First published 23rd September 2025 The Prickly-leaved Paperbark (Melaleuca styphelioides) is native here and self-seeds readily. Its small leaves — prickly alright! — and charming bark make it a natural for bonsai. Unfortunately and to my frus..
01 Sep Plant of the Month: September 2025
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos First published 1st September 2025 Paintbrush, Torch or Blood Lily(Scadoxus puniceus) Family: Amaryllidaceae (includes Amaryllis, Agapanthus, Clivia and Scadoxus) Genus: Scadoxus (includes other ornamental blood lilies) Botanical/Binomial Nam..
10 Aug Newsletter 10th August 2025
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Title image above is copyright © Helen Flynn First published 10th August 2025 Hello everyone, again keeping to the format of previous newsletters: ********* Item 1: Things of Beauty The Lone Pine descendant photographed by Helen Flynn in Victoria is one of the Things of Beauty Item for this newsle..
10 Aug Two Matchstick Bromeliad Inflorescences
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos First published 10th August 2025 Bromeliads have the most amazing infloresecences* (flower spikes*), and the inflorescence of the pink-and-blue matchstick bromeliad (Aechmea gamosepala var. gamosepala) is no exception! * A more accurate descrip..
03 Aug The Curious Nature of the Cook Pine (Araucaria columnaris)
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos First published 3rd August 2025 The Araucaria genus comprises twenty species, now native only to the southern hemisphere, though they were once worldwide from 66 to 200 million years ago. The Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii) and Hoop or Moreton..
01 Aug Plant of the Month: August 2025
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos First published 1st August 2025 Herb Robert (Geranium robertianum) Family: Geraniaceae (includes Geranium and Pelargonium) Genus: Geranium (includes the cranesbills (the true geraniums)) Botanical/Binomial Name: Geranium robertianum Meaning o..
01 Jul Plant of the Month: July 2025
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos First published 1st July 2025 Chinese Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) Family: Rhamnaceae (includes buckthorns; Rhamnaceae is also known as the buckthorn family) Genus: Ziziphus (includes Indian Ber) Botanical/Binomial Name: Ziziphus jujuba Mil..
25 Jun Kel's WA Saltwater Paperbark (Melaleuca cuticularis) Bonsai in an Air-Pot Container
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Title image above is copyright © Kelly Trevisan First published 25th June 2025 Kel and I first “met” when she rang one afternoon from Queensland, to discuss Air-Pot bonsai containers and her new baby, a Western Australian Saltwater Paperbark (Melaleuca cuticularis). This was a week before Cyclone ..
25 Jun Lone Pine Descendants in Victoria
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Title image above is copyright © Helen Flynn First published 25th June 2025 Following the Lone Pine article, two pals have since shared their own sightings in Victoria of this magnificent tree. How could I not do a followup and help spread the word?! Local pal Sandra was first, seeing a tree here,..
23 Jun The Importance of Soil pH to Plant Health
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Title image above is attributed to CoolKoon [CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)] (This article was originally published 16th April 2019 here on our Jujube Tree Nursery site.) First published here 23rd June 2025. [This post] examined the chemistry behind pH, where we saw how pH..
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