Jul 15 2013

WOW! WOW! For the Wings of a Dove

Take the hand of another and sing for the wings of a dove!

Hey! If Peter Warren can slip in numerous song quotes and links to Youtube videos, then so can bloody I 🙂

Madness I tell you!

I had the pleasure of watching this collared Dove from my computer window all morning. It is obviously building a nest in a neighbour’s Leylandii. It didn’t care a jot if I was watching it prance around the trees looking for twigs. It did get rather confused by a bit of bonsai wire that resulted in a tug of war for a few minutes 😉

Walk in the woods Giant Bird!

Leave the apples alone!

weeding

Twinkle in the eye

Oooh! Shiny twig

Tug,tug,tug,tug….

Ah feck that

this one will do 🙂

Interesting fact, growing up and having a love for bird watching, I never saw these Collared Doves. They started to spread into Europe from Asia and were first sighted in the UK in the 50’s and now have a extensive population in urban areas.

Jul 14 2013

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Accent of the Day – Fern

Jul 14 2013

No More Room at the Inn

Every Summer I look after a collection of bonsai for a friend while he going on holiday to visit family in the South of England. This year saw him downsize to a smaller car which therefore added a few extra runs to his delivery trips to my place. A few of the trees were just too big for his car and I had to pop over and collect the remaining few from him. Some of the really big ones are staying at home under the care of his son who he trusts enough to look after them.

This has resulted in my benches being full to capacity, or even to a point well past that. As you will see in the gallery below, I have crammed my benches and this is only some of them as the rest are in another area. I hope to get time to photograph some of these properly before he returns and share them here with you.

The last one to be picked up

Turkey Oak

A few big ones staying put

Beech

Korean Fir

Larch

Field Maple

nebari

Wych Elm

My now packed benches

Purple Beech and Hornbeam

Turkey Oak and Copper Beech

Elm raft and Pine

My current view from computer desk.

Jul 13 2013

Accent of the Day – Sedum

In a now collector’s Item Stone Monkey pot.

Jul 13 2013

Bursabonsai.com

I always like to signpost people to interesting bonsai blogs and websites. I see today that Nicola “Kitora” Crivelli has linked to a few very interesting articles on this site which was new to me.

Click image link to visit.

Make sure you check out these articles

16 STYLE IN THE PHENOMENON OF BUNJIN

THE INVENTORS SHOHIN BONSAI

Jul 13 2013

Ballycotton Cliff Walk, County Cork

Can’t believe I have never been to Cork!

Lyons Bonsai

So this is the second destination i went to yesterday evening. I decided to go for a walk along the cliffs by Ballycotton, in County Cork. It took longer than i expected but made it back to the harbor for a few pictures of the sun about to set. Really nice.

Enjoy again.

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Jul 12 2013

Accent of the Day – Birdsfoot Trefoil

This is the one I posted a few weeks back and I was told by Ray that it might be a Birdsfoot Trefoil. No I said, I don’t think it is. Well, I think Ray was right 🙂 Just flowered yellow and the flower shape matches perfectly.

Jul 12 2013

Korean Hornbeam Trim

Stephen’s Hornbeam getting a trim last weekend. This one used to be mine, kinda wish I had held onto it now 🙂 And yes, it’s going into a more appropriate pot in the Spring.

Jul 11 2013

Accent of the Day – Geranium

Jul 11 2013

The Young Ones

My display benches have become a playground for some newly hatched birds over the last week. A young blackbird awaits it’s Mum on my pots while two young Robins fight each other for the right to sit on my trees. All very entertaining 🙂 If I could only manage to get the camera out quick enough to capture the little Wren that does a patrol of my trees each day looking for greenfly.