Pink Flowered Ironbark: August 2023 repotting

In December 2021 I put this into a bonsai pot, and I’ve never been happy with it.

  • It’s too top-heavy in the leaves
  • There’s not much density
  • There’s a lot of branches that just sort of sit there.
  • No real sense of growth
  • Some big ugly cuts courtesy of younger Michael
So… meh. Especially for such a large tree, it’s just meh.

I decided to pull it out and see if a better soil would work for it.

That’s a very gritty soil.
Not really surprising there’s no action.
Out of the pot and cleaning up
There’s the roots.
Shaping to fit.

In addition to the new pot, I need to shorten and compact the tree. So there’s a heavy prune of the top, and a cleanup of the dead branches going nowhere.

New look. And I think I probably didn’t go far enough, but I can do that later.
Pink Flowered Ironbark: August 2023 repotting
Now, let’s see if it survives.
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