Sep 17 2014

Munster Weekend in Photos

Here’s our exploits from the weekend in photos. A great atmosphere for bonsai, fun but hard work getting done as well.

Crossing the Boyne in the dark

Misty morn

Catching up

Ray raw Pine

Kieran’s Juniper before

Piotr’s Juniper before

Work begins

Mark starting a wiring frenzy

wee doomed heed

clean clean clean

Kieran’s Juniper after

Piotr’s Juniper after, top to be removed in stages

Ray’s larch in for advice

camera shy

there he is

Another Ray Pine for work

Marks Pine after

Mark looking board

Motley crew

another Mark Pine

Piotr’s mame juniper

Ray’s Pine after

Kieran’s pine after

garden shot

Mark’s Gingko Autumn colour

Amazing dogs

Mark’s display

guard dog

Autumn

Cilling before the end

wired out…

good craic

That it, Piotr has left the building

Sep 16 2014

Image

Capel Manor Autumn Show

Sep 15 2014

Thanks Chaps

Just a quick thank you to the Munster Bonsai Club guys for a great weekend, it was special 🙂

Especial thanks to Mark and Valerie for putting us up for the weekend and to Piotr for organising everything. I’ll post more when I get a chance but for now you can just look at our ugly mugs.

Sep 12 2014

Weekend Trip

Club night tonight and then off to County Cork with Phil to run a workshop weekend with the Munster Club guys. Craic to be had 🙂

Sep 11 2014

Whimsical Ponderosa Pine Styling-

Michael Hagedorn

Ponderosa is a controversial North American tree. Mostly the debates swirl around the long needles, and their size being a problem with bonsai. I’m of two minds with this. For one, Ponderosa ramifies rather well over time, and needle length comes down pretty good. My misgivings are that for very small trees, ponderosa foliage doesn’t seem well suited. But, for a modest sized tree and larger, we have a really rough and rugged, really quite exciting, pine character. It’s almost the ultimate pine, in terms of wild ‘piney’ feeling.

This ponderosa is modest in size, 26″. That’s enough size to get beyond the long needles, and then it’s also a bunjin, which is one of the best applications for the species. Needle size will also go down a lot over time.

Before I bought the tree, it had been left to grow for some years without any kind of management…

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