Nice bone sigh interest piece on US news channel. Well done that man 🙂
The kind folks at the local Fox news affiliate here in DC stopped by and did a little report on the Fall Bonsai Exhibit. I tried to embed the video in this post but was unable to figure out how. You’ll have to click here to watch it. Hope you enjoy it.
This package hit the doorstep this week, a selection of accents courtesy of Robert Porch. It’s great to have friends who freely swap plants, my collections has swelled greatly in the few years that I have been really into accents and kusamono. Anyone else interested 😉
What impressed me was the clever way it was packaged, a cut down milk container taped closed at the top. Plants wrapped in paper and protected by the structure of the container. Cheap to post too.
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Upon return home from Australia I discovered that we did not have our typical brilliant autumn colors upstate New York is famous for. The colors were beautiful, but not like in the past years. In fact, many of my deciduous bonsai still have green leaves, even though it snowed a couple of time. Yes, I’ve had shoveled too.
There are several factors which affect the coloring of deciduous bonsai foliage in autumn. Of course the reduced daylight actually triggers the onset of dormancy. I’ve watched as it actually noticeable in late July. The daylight gets shorter each day and the foliage changes from a bright green to dull green.
In addition to the reduced daylight, I’ve learned that watering and feeding the bonsai will greatly affect the autumn coloring. If a bonsai is stressed by not providing adequate water, especially in late summer, the colors often are…
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Named by Mike Jones a few years back due to the branch structure looking like a dancer with the arms thrown up into the air. This year saw absolutely amazing growth over the Summer. This one has nice fine growth compared to many Hawthorn. Again I will be doing some maintenance pruning while it is bare and some wiring to direct a few errant branches. I may even shift it into a more suitable pot in the Spring, this one was just for training, it was all that fitted at the time of it’s last repot.
This was it back in 2011.
My Silver Birch was just reaching it’s peak Autumn colour, almost ready for a record snap when the wind arrived and shredded it!
This is it, front and back although after a closer look at the tree I’m making a change of front not shown here. More on that another time.
It’s still pretty raw, some carving required to sort out a few issues but I’m delighted how the ramification has improved this year, a great growing season and not a single branch dropped, as they are prone to do. Some wiring now required over the Winter to get the structure tidied up a bit.
It’s been a while since I posted any photos of my ritual Sunday walk, mostly due to the fact that I do the same walks frequently and there is only so many things you can snap. I don’t get time to stop and get the set up right either, my big bro sets a fast pace and I’d get left behind 🙂 Therefore any snaps I take are pause and shoot and jog to catch up again.
Yesterday, we did an old favourite, Sawmills at Crawfordsburn Road to Helens Bay and on to Bangor marina, about 8 miles I think. I did take a few just to capture what was a great morning, a nice frost on the ground and some nice Autumn woodland colour, oh, and a few nosy cattle.
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