Christmas Rosemary-What about yours?

LostHawken

My wife and I were given a nice little Rosemary Bonsai for Christmas. It's in a decent Bonsai Pot, but it was pretty dry from shipping, and waiting around to be given, I hope that it's ok. The soil looks pretty much like regular potting soil, it will prob need to be replaced once the little guy bounces back.

I did a bunch of research on the species as Bonsai on bonsaiTalk and elsewhere. Here's a quick summary of what I've gathered. Rosemary is a fast grower, but doesn't back bud from hardened branches. It needs well draining soil, and its branches are stiff and brittle once hardened. They assume most any style as Bonsai, and can have great gnarly trunks.

Lots of this info comes from this forum, but what other advice can anyone give me on this species? I'll be posting a pic of mine soon, but I would also like to see how others have styled their rosemary bonsai. If you don't have yours in the gallery or would like to update us on how it looks now I'd LOVE to see some!

Thanks all,

~Justin

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Will_Heath

http://forum.bonsaitalk.com/showthr...hlight=Rosemary

Paul posted some great links to rosemary bonsai in the above thread.

Will

LostHawken

yep,

I found those too; they Rock. There are also a few very good specimens in our own gallery. I found a couple adds with good pics too. I'm trying to upload my research to my journal but I can't seem to get it to work... So far I'm most in favor of the informals, leaning and windswept that I've seen. It seems like they look best when emphasizing the trunk.

I’d really like to see how Sandi’s project from back in 2001 turned out (http://forum.bonsaiTALK.com/showthread.php?t=901 ) it seemed like it had some great potential!

~Justin

LostHawken

I heard from Sandi on PM that that rosemary project didn't turn out as hoped, which is to bad. I've posted my research in my journal here:

http://forum.bonsaitalk.com/journal...503&action=view

Hopefully it will be of use to some others as well. I'm still really interested to hear of anyone else's experience with Rosemary and to see some more bonsai.

Thanks to Old Mister Crow's photo taking tutorial that he just posted it'll take me a little longer to get some "quality" pics of my Rosemary up. It'll be soon though. :-)