Sep 20 2013

Our First Club Meeting

I must say that I am delighted to see this, onward and upwards chaps 🙂

Well the first bonsai club meeting to happen in Cork in the past ten years, took place tonight, and what a night it was. Ten people came to our meeting from all part of Cork, Kilkenny and Clare. There is a great mixture from Novice being myself up to people doing bonsai for years. The night started with everyone getting to know each other, and then we moved on to talk Bonsai. We discussed each others trees and shared our thoughts on them. It was a great bunch of lads and the next meeting will be only better.

Discussing Trees 🙂

Adrian and Piotr discussing his tree.

Owen, Matt an Peter looking at Matt’s tree.

Matt’s little Tree

Matt’s Cypress in his patented pot 🙂

Peter’s Common Beech

Ray’s Scott’s Pine

Peter’s Little White Pine

Marks very nice Larch

Nice little Cone (not acorn thanks Ian 🙂 ) on the…

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Sep 20 2013

Casual friday: bonsaiempire post my article

Melanie's dream's

I am overwhelmed.

Bonsai Empire, one of the most visit bonsai site worldwide published my article.

http://www.bonsaiempire.com/blog/summer-festival

Thank you

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Sep 20 2013

Weekend Rewind Part 4

We had a few other trees knocking about at the workshop on Sunday, there for various reasons. It’s always good to take advantage of Peter’s eye for design and talk through a few options on a few trees. This large San Jose Juniper was there to be studied with a view to grafting Itoagawa foliage onto it in the future. An interesting discussion about the various options and technique involved.

Phil also brought along his Pine from the January Ryan Neil workshop for a few photos to show progression. Wire had to come off after only six months as it was biting in alot! Not bad for a tree that was sawed halfway through in two places. See here for the video.