growing free
shaped by wintry winds
old tea tree
This coastal Tea-Tree is one of a stand growing at Green Point on Brighton Beach. There are many different wild and freeform shapes amongst this collection of reasonably old trees. With this particular example the trunk has been shaped to grow almost along the ground like a giant natural bonsai.
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Nature is amazing, sometimes like an artist, and sometimes like a scientist… Beautiful haiku and photographs. Thank you, love, nia
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Thank you Nia. The shape is totally wind shaped and there are lots of others in the same place right on a cliff beside a bay.
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This tea tree is such an interesting creation of nature. Wonderful haiku, Denis.
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Thanks Olga. They are prolific along the coast in our suburb however they have become too dominant over more local indigenous plants
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Wow! I’ve never seen a tree like this. It’s hard to believe the wind did this.
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These tea trees often grow right on the coastline and we get powerful winter winds and storms on our bay coming up from Antarctica.
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It kind of looks like smoke to me.
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In the right weather maybe with the wind blowing fine rain horizontally along these trees one could imagine them moving like smoke.
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