In 2016 one of my brothers got married. They had the bright idea of giving out Lemon Myrtles to all the guests at the end of the reception as a symbolic gift. Unfortunately, after a day of excitement and marriages and celebrations and drinking, the idea completely slipped everyone’s mind. Cleaning up afterwards, I ended up with about 2 dozen Lemon Myrtle seedlings. For whatever reason, I got it into my head to try to bonsai them. And so it starts.
My first sets of bonsai were pretty simple.
These all died within the year – I think I took a business trip and didn’t arrange for appropriate watering. The only survivors were in a self watering planter. Here they are a year later (May 2016 ):
And they’re still going in April 2017.
By November 2017 I got around to splitting out the plants, and boy were those roots tangled.
…and the other one, who didn’t get a terracotta pot.
January 2018:
September 2018:
January 2019, and it looks like I lost a couple:
March 2019
It doesn’t show well in the side pics, but they have a big fanning effect.
May 2019:
