Saturday saw us driving to Mark’s home where he kindly agreed to host the workshop. His large tunnel was cleared out to give us room to make a mess. Each of the people taking part picked a tree to discuss at the start and we moved swiftly on to getting some work done. Our talk from the Friday night was put into action and we had a little repotting and a lot of carving. Some major airlayering was going on in the garden too with each participant getting the chance to see and assist with the process. A key message of the day was not to do work on a tree at the wrong time. No point wiring a Larch in leaf, or a pine about to open candles or a tree be styled just after repotting. That doesn’t mean that nothing can be done though. We probably achieved more this time than back in January and many trees were prepared for future work in the Autumn.

A very busy day starting at 9.30am and finishing after 7pm. Mark was a great host and his wife put on a great lunch for us. A big thank you to Mark and Valerie. Indeed thanks to all those who supported the weekend, to make this club grow we need to keep pushing events like this. Here’s photos from the day and I’ll post photo’s from a little collecting trip tomorrow.

waiting to start

chit chat

a bit potty Mark

Piotr’s Privet

snap

opening discussion time

right a bit

front or back

Mark’s White Pine

Mark’s White Pine

You guessed it, Mark’s White Pine

Ray’s Larch

To work…

cleaning out

stay or go?

Evil weevils

close up

Out with the old… mix

cleared ready for Autumn wiring

Joy of Carving

getting started

Ray’s Pine, again prepared for Autumn

I’ll have a glass of Coke a biscuit and 3 White Pines please

Boys and their toys

Trident Stump clean up

looks fun

get stuck in

Give me a go

Smaller work

What a mess!! but it’s all over

A late late night Additional workshop 🙂