More amazing exhibition photos from the Nekotoban blog, this time from kyusyu Miyabiten 2014.
After an evening with Piotr our host on the Saturday night, we made an early start on the Sunday morning to visit two collecting sites. First off we wanted to collect some Larch for the NIBS, our own club, who have plans about a special inter-generational workshop next year. Here we our selecting some suitable trees for this.
We popped back to Piotrs home for a quick cuppa before some serious travelling to the second site. While we were there we had a look around some of Piotr’s trees in his garden. I think we can safely say he’s hooked on bonsai with a garden rapidly filling with trees.
We then headed along the West Coast to get to a site we hadn’t visited before. We had been told that it was a possible Pine collecting site. I’m not going to go into the location for obvious reasons but Piotr had done the ground work for us so we could just go and collect. He came along with us and it was great to have his help.
It was a bit of a drive and then a bit of a hike from the road but what we found was an excellent site for both Scots Pine and Lodgepole Pine. These trees were self seeded and growing in an exposed area which created some great shapes and bark. These are the best Pines that I’ve found in Ireland. Here are a few shots of some of them on site. A nice mix of sizes. Sorry for a few blurry photos but it was raining for a while.
I’ve been taking the easy option and reblogging Munster Bonsai Clubs posts about the weekend but I do have a few photos of my own that help capture the great day we had. I’ve been back to what has been a hectic few days in work and am still trying to recover from the serious travelling and work that the guys down there had us doing 😉 Anyway, here’s a few of my shots.
Mark has been working on his two trees on last workshop. There we have some pictures.
big Chinese elm before
and after. this tree has been potted to more shallow pot and some branches has been re-positioned to improve ramification
the second tree was Trident Maple Mark
the tree before it was originally potted in green pot that empty one on left hand side
and after work in new blue pot. this tree has been shift more to the right side of the pot.
10/01/2015 we had our first workshop in this year. As usually very busy and progressive day. The main topic was re-potting so we have good chat about it. Then Ian and Phill did some critique on ours trees, and finally we become to do some work on ours trees. Here we have some pictures.
Mark’s poly tunnel ready for messy work. Thanks Mark 🙂
selling area- some lovely pots and trees
general chat
trees critique
Ray wiring his twin trunk larch
Kieran wiring his new Scottish pine
Mark and Ian are preparing pot for Mark’s Chinese elm
two fingers Master is working on Ray’s larch
Kieran and Ian are working on Kieran’s small cotoneaster
Ray and Phill still on the same larch
Mark is re-potting his lovely Chinese elm
Kieran is wracking his cotoneaster 🙂
First fitting Mark’s elm
All happy faces at the end of the day
Thank you…
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… After a great weekend in Cork with the Munster club lads. Didn’t take too many pics as I was rather busy but I will share what I have during the week. In the meantime I’ll just share this one.
Relaxing with friends after a great workshop in Cork with the guys in the Munster Bonsai Club.
Piotr’s van ready for tomorrow workshop with Ian Young and Phil Donnelly
it is going to be busy day for us. First workshop :). The weather is not bad and there is no signs that winter will com to us this year so we will try do lots of re-potting and some styling as well.
Will update after the weekend.
A few snaps from my walk on Sunday. A great day for a walk.
Detail on an old Railway Bridge
Hooded crow that was singing Black Betty Bam aLam 🙂
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