This isn't travel per se, but it wouldn't have happened without my various trips to Japan, and it's a place to put a bunch of photos rather than sending them over disperate chat apps to the couple of people that might be interested.
After mentioning my interest in Bonsai I received a gift voucher from my parents for Christmas.
My helper and I headed down to Collector's Corner at Garden World which in addition to having a large range of fossils, cacti and dinosaur statues, boasts it has the largest range of Bonsai in Australia or some such.
After a trip there and one to Bunnings, I now have this.
I have a range of already potted stuff, the largest of which is this Cedar.
through this kind of blurry maple
A chinese elm
A juniper
And this thing, which is nicknamed the "tree of 1000 stars" because of the large volume of small white flowers it sports in summer, or something.
In addition I have a few in plastic tubs to be transplanted to pots, including another Juniper
Another Maple
And another Cedar, that my helper insists is going in a greenish pot, and being covered in bright green pebbles, as opposed to the blue pot/black pebbles theme I've got going on otherwise.
I also have a selection of seeds to try and turn into seedlings. So I might update at some later stage with how it's all going. Assuming I don't kill everything in the mean time.
To aid with the not killing, I've hooked up a sprinkler/mister system
Which is on a timer, so as long as I remember to turn down the frequency of watering in winter, I should be able to keep them alive for a while.
Update:
I've added a solar powered pump and run the hose up through some bamboo.
Now I just need to find a modestly sized shishi odoshi
