Eucalyptus Nicholii

Peter Hanrahan | Australia

Designed by Peter Hanrahan

Style: Natural Eucalyptus
Height: 900cm
Container: By Australian potter Pat Kennedy

About the tree:: Found at south Canberra Dump in the Revolve section in the summer of 1995. It was in very little soil and full of disease. (Mealy bug and sooty mildew).
Over the following months I removed the pests, re-potted, cut back and trained a new leader.
It was kept as a as an experiment, I was unsure how a Eucalypt would react to Bonsai techniques.
In 1999 I potted it into a Bonsai pot and continued shaping into a gum tree style as I see in my local area. After 2001 I carved the lower and mid sections of the tree.
Over the years I have had a battle with die back and have lost some of the original branches. Generally when this happens the tree goes through a redesign utilising old branches and new shoots.