Happy days, another Western Bonsai Artist has started his own bonsai blog about his apprenticeship and experiences in Japan.
This time it’s Tyler Sherrod from the USA who is studying under Mr. Shinji Suzuki in Obuse, Japan.
It’s a new blog but I feel it’s important enough to add to my links list. Where else can we learn lessons direct from the source 🙂
Click on the image below to visit Tyler’s Blog.
Who would have thought it…
100 subscribers on my You Tube Channel. Thanks to everyone who found the content interesting enough to sign up.
Have been playing around on Stumble Upon and found a website that lets you Warholize your photos. Did a few for a laugh and added a few Warhol quotes.
You can do anything online!!
Took a walk around Mount Stewart this morning with my wife to clear my head.
This is a National Trust Property on the Ards Peninsula in County Down. As you park up you over look Strangford Lough.
This beautiful house is surrounded by stunning gardens and a lake ringed by mature trees.
I loved this new fence screen they had erected beside the path. It would make a great backdrop for trees.
This big eucalyptus was eye catching with it’s flaking bark.
The grounds also contained many interesting Pines of many unusual varieties.
This big Wellingtonia is one of my favourite trees.
and another one.
Some stunning views around the lake.
This Bald Cypress might interest my Floridian friends 🙂
I also liked this Maple Group. You could nearly pop it into pot right now!
A few others that caught the eye.
A bit of recent jinning in an old Cedar canopy.
The gardens beside the house are more formal but just as beautiful.
I spotted this very old Yew that is just begging to be dug out and given a little bit of TLC, by me 🙂
Some very old Dwarf Rhoddies and Azaleas in the formal garden would also be going home with me if I had a say in it.
Like everywhere else in the UK, Mount Stewart showed signs of hardship over the Winter months. This big Myrtle was dead and the Rhododendron has lost its whole top.
Some nice bark.
Spotted this Kiwi Friut tree, or is it a vine? Not sure. Fruit starting to develope.
Well worth a visit if you are in the area. I’m a NT member so I can pop in whenever I like 🙂
It has been remiss of me not to have included the European Bonsai Forum among my widgets on the right of this page. This has now been rectified.
Another forum??!! There are many basic bonsai forums out there covering all sorts. Having looked at most I stick generally to Wee Trees, Internet Bonsai Club , Bonsai Study Group. And even Ausbonsai! However European Bonsai is more targeted at Native bonsai were I have an interest. For me, this is a good thing.
As with all newish forums, it needs time to build but if you pop over there for a look, make sure you post something. It’s a small group so no lurking either, get a few replied up there too 😀
Click on the image below to pay it a visit and sign up.
Today’s addition to the My Bonsai Tab is a few of my smallest trees. This includes Juniper, Rowan, Cotoneaster and Ivy. Some I’ve had for many years and some are new. I do have others in training but are not much to look at for now. I’ll add them as they progress.
HERE is the page link, or just click on the image below to view.
I have recently added a few of my better mame trees to a tufa rock planting. As it comes together, I hope to do a Case Study page about it.
Today’s addition to the My Bonsai Tab is this Juniper.
The full story can be read and seen HERE.
This is the Juniper now.
and this is it in back in 1995.
The greatly anticipated episode 9 in the series has arrived. Looks like the guys have gone all serious on us! Bring back the female voice overs 🙂
Only joking, a fantastic episode with a quality styling of a raw material Sekka Hinoki Cypress. Even the day trip to Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto was interesting. What sort of eejit jumps off that building? Did the guys take the plunge? Did the three waterfalls come from a tap they turn on every morning? All unanswered questions….
Enjoy. Oh, click on the pic for the link to the video. I can’t embed on free wordpress gggrrr!!!
I’m going to try and add a few more of my trees to the My Bonsai Tab over the next week.
Today I have added this Japanese Larch. The page can be viewed HERE
This is the tree in question 2002/2011
41 years old today! The sun is shining and I’m [still] off work. Getting a nice Chinese meal tonight and as I am not a big cake fan, my darling wife made me a pavlova and stuck a candle on it 🙂 She made it last night so I have already had a sneaky slice. Does it get any better?
Thanks for the the birthday wishes I have received so far.Here’s what you are missing…
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