Some more from the Bonsai Days Blog from a local exhibition in Japan.
Koujitukai & Tokujyukai Joint Exhibition
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Spotlight on Accents
Loved this post over on California Bonsai Art
The Accent
The accent is all about story telling. In most cases the story is “season”. The accent represents Earth in the Triad. The bonsai represents Man and the scroll represents Heaven. Man keeps a harmonious balance between Heaven and Earth.
The accent, or “companion plant” is part of the display where while there may be rules, it is a time to be creative. Planting can be made in small rustic pots, handmade with rough textures and special glazes, smaller pieces of driftwood or roof tiles, broken pottery, old rusty cans and flat pieces of wood.
In spring, flowers should be held to one or two blooms and the rest in buds. Toko Kazari is about subtlety. The size of the stand under the accent. Is a flowering plant used, should it be a stone or a carving? In the end this last item is really very important. In fact…
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Walk in Bluebell Wood
Well, It’s not called Bluebell Wood but it should be this week. This is my local Killynether Wood and yesterday evening after finishing a long week at work, I popped home grabbed the good lady wife and dogs and headed for the trees in the evening sun. Was well worth it.
Old Hazel
Mourne Mountains
Belfast in the distance
Blackthorn
Wild Primrose
Gorse
Next Gen Beech
Chase Me
Hazel Cleared and Bluebells taking advantage
Interesting Scottie Branch
Youngish Beech reaching for the light.
Ball in mouth, tongue out the side 🙂
Strangford Lough
Maggioni grand prix
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Starting Apprenticeship in Japan
Not me!! I can only dream 🙂
No I’m referring to Jonas Sandell’s Blog. If you are not following it, you’ll be missing out. Not sure how often he’ll get the chance to post working so hard at Shunkaen, but each post will be enlightening. Click on the image below to visit the blog.
Korean Hornbeam
Sakura Ten 2013
Escallonia Leafing Out
Five amazing Bonsai from Omiya in HD video
My great friend Michael Mehrmann has let me share this wonderful video of six amazing trees from Omiya, the video is in High Definition so watch it in full screen to enjoy all the detail of these fabulous Bonsai.
The five featured trees are
- Uzushio
- Keyaki
- Meikou
- Shimpaku
- Shishigashira
To watch in full screen HD click the small arrows in the bottom right of the video
Sharon’s Garden and Bonsai
I had the pleasure of visiting Sharon’s garden on Monday. I was chatting to her at the club meeting on Friday night and said I’d be passing near her place and she offered a coffee. Never one to turn down the chance to look at bonsai and drink coffee, I called to see her collection. When I arrives she was happily working away on a tree in her greenhouse. It was my first time at Sharon’s and although I’ve seen many of her trees before, I didn’t realise that she had so many! When I told her I counted over 50, she was surprised herself ❗
Her garden is small and she has made great use of the space and has to be commended for the quality of her collection. There was plenty there that I’d jump at the chance to have on my own benches. She even pointed out a few that she had bought from me years ago. Needless to say they are 100 times better now! Here are some photos but!!! here’s the problem, I forgot to take my camera, so what you’ll see were taken with my phone, so apologies for the quality of the photos.
Some glare but it actually looks nice
Root over Rock Trident
Display bench
Flowering Malus
Itogawa Juniper
Beches
JBP
Malus
Common Juniper originally sold by Phil and I
Display Bench
Deshojo Maple
Shagashari Maple
Korean Hornbeam
Kiyo-Hime Maple
Shy Sharon 🙂
Benches
One green house
Benches
Larch Group
JWP
Another greenhouse
Benches
Shohin Potentilla
White Current
Black Mulberry
JBP
A larch bought from me long ago!
Larch won in a club raffle.
Bonsai Eejit 