Mar 11 2013

Stephen’s Place

Popped into the Bonsai Baker’s place during last week. Had a good look about and chatted about trees as usual.

A head scratcher 🙂

His Kyio-hime Maple bursting out

His big Hornbeam that we repotted on Saturday afternoon. More on this soon.

Buds on Hornbeam swelling nicely

His clump Maple

A Cotoneaster potted into a training box to boost growth.

A lovely little pot that Stephen had. A lovely purple colour running through the glaze, photo doesn’t capture it well sadly.

Some of his Accent pots.

Stephen had used one of my pots recently for his maple and I was admiring a pot on his shelf. We ended up swapping. I have no clue what I’m putting in it, but who cares, I love it.

Mar 11 2013

Lodders Spring Show

Well worth a share, Jerry’s set on FlickR showing Lodders and the Spring Show. Just click on the image below to view.

Mar 10 2013

Harlem Shake

Now that’s funny!!!! 🙂

Mar 10 2013

Robert Porch @ NIBS Club Night

On Friday we had Robert Porch with us at our Club Night. His lighthearted approach was appreciated by the members, even those he literally dragged up to the front to help with the demo!

The main point made during the evening was that bonsai for everyone watching was a hobby and that we should be doing it for enjoyment. I think we can safely say that we enjoyed our night. As usual some photos.

John’s large Japanese Black Pine grown from seed gets a first styling.

Hugh’s big larch on display.

Small Larch getting styled by Robert

Stephen gets dragged up for his input 😉

Now it’s Graham’s turn

Mar 10 2013

Some great shots of an ancient Yew here on Bryan’s Blog.

BONSAI WALES

Recently whilst on a visit to a workplace I took another opportunity to visit an ancient yew. This time in the village of Overton.
As many folk know, church yards around the UK have very ancient specimen. Many of which are registered on the www.Ancient-Yew.org

Looking at photos is one thing, but being in the presence of a 1000yr+ tree is something else. This set of photographs is of particular importance and the main Tree has been designated one of Wales National Wonders.
Here are some of my photos…
This Yew Tree is reported to be between 1500 and 2000 yrs old.

Other Trees in and around Overton’s Church Yard:

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Mar 9 2013

Twin Trunk Scottie Repot

It was time to repot my Scot’s Pine from my Ryan Neil workshop. I needed to get it into something better than the plastic container that had been substituted after the tree blew off the bench a while back and smashed a rather nice Iain Baillie pot 😦 I had looked for a pot while at Willowbog but there wasn’t a pot that met all the needs. I opted to buy a temporary pot that would do for the next few years and allow me to look around for the right final pot.

The observant of you will notice that the tree still needs to tilt slightly further to the right. I need to make a further slight adjustment but this is mostly down to the wrong angle from which I took the photo!

Mar 9 2013

Mar 8 2013

Auction Update

For those of you who saw my posts regarding the Auction held by the Wessex Bonsai Society, here is a update about the day on the Swindon Bonsai Society Website. Click on the photo to visit.

Mar 7 2013

Warren Hill Bonsai Sale

As I have a respectable number of American followers, I thought I would share this post from the IBC Forum regarding the Sale of Warren Hill’s Bonsai. This was posted today by Willaim Valanvanis.

Warren Hill has had serious health problems and his bonsai will be sold on Saturday. Here is a message from Matt Berenberg:

ust a friendly reminder that due to health issues Warren Hill has authorized a sale of specimen trees, pre-bonsai and stock material at his Tree Haven School of Bonsai in Greenville, TN.
This sale is scheduled for this Saturday March 9th from 10 am till 6 pm.

All are welcome to attend.

This sale will include specimen material – one of a kind bonsai created by Warren during his 50+ years in bonsai, as well as stock material propagated and developed by Warren.
These are truly American bonsai masterpieces.

Images of some of the available Specimen trees can be seen on his web site:http://www.warrenhillbonsai.com/. Specimen trees include ponderosa pines, Japanese black pine , stewartia, wisteria, Chinese quince forest, Japanese and Trident maple forests and single tree specimens, hinoki forests, spruce forest on rock slab, hornbeam forests and single tree specimens, crepe myrtle, several outstanding root-over-rock specimens, and juniper specimens among others.

Stock trees including semi-styled and as well as untouched seed grown material are available. Trees on hand include: satsuki azaleas, Japanese maples, trident maples, root-over-rock material, boxwoods, shimpaku juniper, Tschi-Tschi gingko, tall Stewartia, pomegranate, princess persimmon, dwarf crepe myrtle, spruce, hinoki, hemlock, quince, cryptomeria, Caitlin elm, and Japanese and trident maple forests. This stock material can be used for upcoming workshops or grown and developed into future masterpieces.
Warren has spent the last decade propagating and developing this material and now it will be available to the public.

Don’t miss this opportunity to own a tree grown and developed by one of Americas premier bonsai artists and teachers.

If you edit a club newsletter, maintain bonsai friends e-mail list, know of bonsai collectors or clubs that may be interested please share this announcement.
If you cannot attend but have interest in owning one or more of these trees please contact Matt or Tim.

Terms:

All trees will be priced (A price list will be available the day of the sale)
Cash or check day of sale
prices will range from $25-$20,000

Info: Matt Berenberg —mattberenberg@yahoo.com
Tim Weckman —tj.weckman@yahoo.com