Spring 2020 downunder

[Shibui]

While some of you northerners are experiencing heat waves and wildfires spring seems to have leapt upon us early down here.
New buds opening on deciduous trees is always a welcome sight.

Tridents are usually one of the first deciduous species to move but there's a lot of variation from one individual to the next.

3 tridents that have been side by side for the past year.


The middle one has developing leaves


while the one on the right is just opening.


The trident on the left is still way behind with buds just showing red tips


Above these a crab apple has leaves and swelling flower buds


Elsewhere, younger red leaf crabs are also opening brilliant colored leaves


A smaller trident maple looking really nice with half open new leaves.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Nice shots! One of the best things about this site is the peek into different seasons around the globe. Thanks for sharing.

 

[SeanS]

Can I play too?

Regular green JM and what’s also meant to be a green JM but might be a cultivar?

 

[leatherback]

Spingchils along my spine! THank you, one of the best moments of the year when all the bare trees pop leaves!

 

[Clicio]

Jumping in:
A Deshojo maple waking up.

 

[james]

Nice to see those beautiful fresh leaves. In the northern hemisphere, its late summer. Many of my deciduous trees' leaves are tired, some sunburnt, etc. The pictures above are refreshing, thank you

 

[Shibui]

Some more shots of Shibui Spring


A small seiju elm opening new leaves


Small trident maple


A couple of flowering forsythias.




and a plum just starting to flower

 

[SeanS]

@Shibui that little trident is awesome! How old is it?

 

[Deep Sea Diver]

Some more shots of Shibui Spring

Pretty awesome stuff! Makes my want to have a winter home Down Under! Just gotta figure out how to take my trees with me.... or maybe that could mean two sets... my wife would really love that idea
Cheers
DSD sends

 

[Shibui]

@Shibui that little trident is awesome! How old is it?

I have way too many to keep good track of the ages. That one is probably 5-7 years, maybe a bit older. Years seem to fly by these days............

 

[sorce]

Years seem to fly by these days

So you're cheating! That's how come all the development!

Sorce

 

[JudyB]

Beautiful all of them! The crabapple is sure full of flower buds, please please update that when they open. Love the Deshojo...

 

[Shibui]

A couple of days can make a big difference at this time of year.
More crab apple flowers out now.

Still not quite fully flowering yet but close.

Some plums also flowering well. This is called Prunus 'Elvins' Always has masses of flowers crowded along the stems.



I'm still working on developing a good bonsai with that variety.

A couple of Japanese maples are extending new shoots and opening first leaves.


The little tridents have leaves fully open now



Another Seiju elm


and Nire Keyaki dwarf Chinese elm

 

[Clicio]

Well, my deciduous bougie last winter and today.

Winter


Today


Foliage

 

[cmeg1]

Cool crabapple and NireElm

 

[Shibui]

One of the bonsai azaleas in flower

unfortunately petal blight got the early flowers so not the display it could have been. Need to find time to cut off affected flowers and bin them.

 

[Shibui]

Japanese maples are looking great this week as the new leaves open.






Tridents with fresh new leaves also look good.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Looking good. Those fellas have some age to them!

 

[Shibui]

Thanks for the likes everyone.

3 of those JM are 20-30 years old. The second one is only around 12. All grown from seed. The last JM is actually grafted. I replaced a tall, straight trunk with an approach graft just above the first branch. It is the smallest of those at around 30 cm tall.

All the tridents also grown from seed.
The final pic is the youngest. After I realized that all my tridents looked similar I decided to try for one with more dynamic trunk.

 

[Clicio]

After I realized that all my tridents looked similar I decided to try for one with more dynamic trunk.

They all look great, even the "similar looking" tridents, but the youngest one goes in a very interesting way, congrats!