"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message
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"Peter Jason" wrote in message

It is about 1/2 meter tall and the top is
growing fast. I don't have a garden and it
lives in a pot on the patio. I just want to
train it into an attractive shape because it
has branches lower down that grow out
horizontally.

I think you wasted your money.

The Wollemi Pine belongs to the Araucaria family and this family all
grow into huge trees. The really spectacular thing about this family
is their shape in that they grow enormously tall with stunning trunks
and have superb pointy tops. There are many wonderful and enormous
examples in older gardens in Oz (especially old farm gardens) that
were planted in the 19th century and in many Victorian era cemeteries
(such as Rookwood in Sydney).

The official site for the Wollemi Pine says that the biggest one in
the wild is 40 metres high so I don't fancy your chances of keeping it
looking good as a pot plant given the preferred way that these trees
grow.


I am probably the odd one out but I see nothing wrong with planting a tree
you like and accepting that it will have to be removed long before maturity.
There are plenty of wonderful examples of Araucaria around here which will
eventually have to go. Even the most modest British trees are probably
unsuitable for the average garden but they do enjoy a 20/30 year life before
the chop. Must go now -I need to check the Sequoia:-)