Today I visited a mates garden to give advice on a Hornbeam that he’d repotted. Never one to miss an opportunity with my camera, I took a few snaps. Stephen is an old bonsai friend and his family are now close personal friends with mine. I have known him from when he joined the club back in 94/95. He is just adding the finishing touches to his back garden were he keeps the trees. I ran around the garden snapping away at whatever I could find.

Here’s a few general shots of the garden.

These are a few of the trees sitting around.

Scots Pine

Nice fine needles

Japanese Larch

Shari on Larch

A few collected Hawthorn and a few others for good measure.

Hosta's potted up as accent plantings. He kindly gave me some of these when he split them.

Root over Rock Common Juniper, just trimmed back

Evidence of trimming. I tried out his new scissors with the round finger holes but they were too small 😦

Kyo-hime Maple opening

Satsuki Azalea. Hoping to give him a hand cutting this one back this year.

Tomorrow I’m dropping some trees back to Josh, another club member with stunning trees. I’ll also be taking a few record snaps for Philip who has been collecting Escallonia stumps all week. Somewhere in between I hope to collect a tree myself and cut another two escallonia back. Busy day with camera in hand 🙂