Found these Short clips on You Tube. Each is a clip of an individual tree on display at the Festival international de bonsaï 2011. Worth a few minutes of anyones time. It’s also worth looking through some of his other videos. His Dexter Intro is superb 🙂
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Autumn Sunshine
After a week of nearly constant rain, the gruesome foursome took their normal Sunday morning walk. After a quick check out the window I donned a warm jacket only to shed it after 20 minutes in the warm sunshine.
The brothers grim 🙂 I know you check this Sam, and it would be remiss of me not to follow on from the Gorrillas in the mist dig from the last walk 🙂
Extra light hitting the forest floor now that leaf drop is well under way.
A Larch on the Autumn turn.
Peeking out over County Down.
Every time a walk past this cottage in the country, I want to move in! Wonder if the back garden is big enough for my bonsai collection 🙂
New 360’s
I did a few new Bonsai 360’s yesterday. I can’t embed them here as it’s a free wordpress account 😦 However, you can click on this link and pop over to the NIBS Site and view them there. Just click below to view.
Camera out Again
I was playing around with the camera again today. Getting a few better snaps of my trees. Also tried a slightly different lighting set up. It’s still a bit Mickey Mouse, but it’ll do.
Shohin Cotoneaster
Ben brought this little Cotoneaster along to the workshop last weekend. While Peter was busy doing the deadwood on several Larch, Ben and I had a look at this little fellow. I could have sworn I took a before photo but I can’t one one of it now! Anyway, this is it after we gave the few pruning scars a little bit of refinement with the dremel to make them more natural looking. Some fine wire was added to get the young branches positioned in the right areas. Next year this will fill out rapidly and create a lovely little tree.
Larch Progression in 2011
I have just added this post to the NIBS club site about a Larch that has been worked on by a club member this year. No point in reproducing it here, just click on the image of the tree below to view the post.
Final Fuji Fotos
These will be the final photos of my Fuji Cherry for the year. When it eventually started turn it went very quickly. I experimented on it this year by defoliating it. I don’t think it made any difference with the depth of colour or how long it held the leaves. This was it on 4th October.
and this was it yesterday with a touch more red colour. Pity most of the leaves have fallen already.
Rescue maple Colour
I have been watching this Maple out of my window all week. It has been changing colour in front of my eyes.
This was it back on the 4th October.
and this was it today.
If the wind stays away, I’m in for a treat over the next few days 🙂 Taking it to my club meeting tomorrow night to add a splash of colour.
Frankies Juniper
This Juniper was worked on last weekend. It belongs to Frankie but his son Phil is the main man when it comes to it’s care and styling. It was styled last year but not to Phil’s satisfaction. The extreme bend was proving hard to incorporate into the design with the current deadwood. A weak branch to the left had died. This photo shows the tree the the weak branch alive, just.
Now that the branch to the left was dead Peter Snart suggested that part of the deadwood should be removed and the bend bent down further with a clamp. This is it clamped down a little but the jin is stopping it going any further.
Jin removed, cranked down further and tied off with 2mm copper wire. Even this stretched with the pressure but there was no sign of any cracks in the bend. 
This now opens up many new options for styling and creating an unusual tree, but that will have to wait for another day. Next step will probably to create a bend in the next section of trunk line to add more movement and bring the foliage back over the centre of the tree.
They’re coming thick and fast…
It feels like only a few days ago we were treated to Episode 13, oh, it was only a few days ago 😀
Enjoy.
Bonsai Eejit 