Geranium Accent.
This little fellow makes his patrol of my poly tunnel on a regular basis. I’ve had frogs in there for the last 10 years.
Well if you leave your camera at your backside Stephen, what did you expect 😛 Shame you didn’t post those pics of naked ladies in the Amazon jungle that I snapped off from the Discovery Channel lol
At the Bonsai school a few weeks ago I had , what I thought, was a few glasses of wine. This I enjoyed. Then Taxi home and Ian’s lovey wife picked me up the next morning for the workshop. This all went as planned. Only I left my camera at Ian’s overnight. These are what I found on Sunday night , well these are SOME of what I found, lesson learned.
Really don’t remeber taking these, untill the next shot.
All makes sense now :))
This is my little Pyracantha in full flower.
I have had this tree about 4 years and I just love it at this time of year.
Only one week left to go before our first club meeting in Balbriggan.
If you are coming, try and bring a tree along.
Back in July 2011 while on a family holiday I had the pleasure of visiting Rick’s garden in Florida. See here for a post from my visit.
You’ll see from the original post that I commented about a Ficus that Rick had on his Bench. This is the tree as I saw it.
Rick and I discussed a few options for the tree. Now I’d just like to point out that I don’t visit folk for the first time and start telling them what to do with their trees, especially species I don’t know a lot about. However Rick asked, so I offered a little design advice with this one. I really liked the nebari at the back of this tree and suggested this to Rick. The long straight section was also an issue for me and seeing just how quickly Ficus respond to hard pruning, I suggested a chop as an option. Never did I think that he’s actually take me at my word and carry out the work!
Well, yesterday Rick Facebook messaged me and I quote,’ Ian, when did you visit my garden? You suggested I turn this Ficus around. I chopped it off and did just that…..you are the man!’
Again I’d like to point out that yes I am ‘a ‘ man, but most definitely nor ‘the’ man 🙂
Attached was this photo of the tree now.
It’s easy to offer advice, the hard part is putting it into action. Rick has done a great job over only three years and created a squat powerful image which will mature nicely.
Here are few older photos of the tree and the chop in progress.
Now Rick, I want to see this Bougie 3 years on and what have you done with the Holly? 🙂
A couple years ago I tried a nylon cooking board as a slab for a twin-trunk Mountain Hemlock.
Last year we had some fun here making a Vine Maple Tower, using an internal nylon board framework.
And earlier this spring we took a new spin on that idea, using this time a countertop material called Corian. Here are a few photos of a large Mountain Hemlock that I’ve yet to feature here (eventually…) being placed on a Corian slab:
Konnor (solids) and Bobby (stripes) bringing the Mountain Hemlock into the studio. It’s been on this plywood board since designing it a couple years back, and this year it was in danger of simply rotting away.
After sliding it onto the Corian board, Konnor traces the shape of the soil mass.
Bobby trying out a new idea, cutting the board at a 45% angle.
Glueing on the feet, just…
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