After a great day at the Saturday Bonsai School, a few bottles that night and a great Indian meal, the Sunday Workshop loomed large.
As usual Peter starts off with at least one tree from each student getting a run through. A great way to start and a great learning experience.
As all good workshops should be, this one isn’t about getting tree styled start to finish, but about knowledge, learning and what’s best for the tree. Here’s some snaps of the workshop and some of the trees worked on during the day.
Alans Cedar before
John’s Maple before
Ben’s Berberis
Stan’s Scottie before
Ben’s half plucked maple
Geraldines Juni
Geraldines Zelkova
Ben’s raw Spruce
The opening hour
Discussing Cedar
John at work
Bud selection
Shari
Cleaning
Learning
Fingers arrives
action shot
trimming
shari done
instruction
concentration
concentration
concentration
after pruning
base
shari
Angle 1
Angle 2
Angle 3
Angle 4
Carving
Hawthorn
Ben’s Spruce
Stan’s Tanuki
After carving
Bonsai Eejit 
Was the one tree a barberry? It’s the 3rd&4th pics………..
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Yes Erick, not called Barberry too often over here but that’s what it is 🙂
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It looks extremely similar to mine just more mature. What do they call them in your area?
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Just berberis, never really hear them referred to as Barberry.
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yes, it was , going to be a nice tree ! I hope everyone enjoyed the day as much as I did , as usual many thanks to Ian and Allison for hosting the whole weekend and being so hospitable ,
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If you enjoyed it that much, you should start paying us 😛
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If I ever am in Ireland I’m making a point to come to a workshop. Decision made.
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You’d be welcome 🙂
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