I finally got around to putting together some of my photos from Willowbog into a slideshow.
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Thick and Fast…
They are coming thick and fast, hot on the heals of episode 19, comes episode 20 looking at the creation of deadwood on a shohin Juniper and a Japanese Red Pine.
Latest Bjorvala Bonsai Video
Episode 19, all credit to the chaps, top quality videos with top quality content.
Stephen’s Autumn colour Larch
Another one of Stephen’s trees that I photographed on Sunday. It needs a total rewiring this Winter as many branches have started to rise with the Strong growth. Note the very unusual base. Interesting story behind this tree but I’ll leave that for Stephen to tell in his own time. He’s threatening to start his own blog before the end of the year 🙂
Yew Work Schedule
I’m hoping to give this Yew it’s first styling this week. It has been grown from a cutting and spent 7 years in open ground and two in this pot. That’s ten years to get it to this point for first styling. I have done some basic carving on a few stumps and have thinned the foliage out last year so that the tree is prepared and ready for seeing wire for the first time. I only plan to do the basic structural work and hopefully someone will buy it next year and take it to the next stage.
Naked Japanese Maple Raft
Stephen’s new Japanese Maple Raft. We eventually got to see it sans leaf on Sunday. I plucked off the last 4 leaves 🙂
A lot of clearing out required but I was happy to see some decent ramification with close inter-nodal length in there. Bodes well for the future with the right care.
Mario’s Cotoneaster
Thought I would share Mario’s Cotoneaster with you. He’ll be missing all his trees while he’s boiling in Dubai 🙂
It’s showing lovely colour. Mario’s giving me a free hand with the styling of this one and it’s in for a big change in the next few months 🙂
Uro Inspiration
On my walk yesterday I saw quite a lot of deadwood on deciduous trees. Here are some examples.
This was a large Linden Raft with rotting ground hugging branches.
Oak.
Beech
What’s this one?
It’s a Japanese Maple Bonsai 🙂
Stephen’s Deshojo Autumn Colour
My friend Stephen’s Deshojo Maple in it’s Autumn garb.
This is what a £823,500 Bonsai looks like!!
Spotted this photo over on a IBC Forum post. It’s a Japanese White Pine that sold this week at the ASPAC Bonsai Convention in Takamatsu, Japan. Priced at 100,000,000 yen, it works out at roughly £823,500.
As my son would say OMG!!
Bonsai Eejit 