On Friday afternoon before the rest descended on my garage, I decided to test out my should with a little wiring. I opted for this shohin JBP. This is it before wiring.
Option 1
Option 2
I opted for option 1 to hide the chop wound to the back. This is the tree after wiring.
Thought I’d share this here for all those UK based enthusiasts. In fact, that’s rather restrictive, feel free to attend from wherever you are!
I have cut and pasted the below info from the Facebook page recently set up. I have clicked the ‘Maybe’ button for attendance but I’ll have to wait until closer to the time before I know if I can attend. Seeing who is doing the organising, I can assure you that this will be a quality event.
On behalf of the organising team, I am pleased to announce that an exciting national UK Shohin Bonsai show dedicated to smaller bonsai, will be held on Sunday, March 24th 2013. This exciting national event is being organised by Mark & Ritta Cooper and Bob Bailey, with the support of the Bristol Bonsai Society, the British Shohin Association, and the Federation of British Bonsai Societies.
This will be the only UK national exhibition dedicated to Shohin bonsai in 2013 and will be a “must visit event” for all Shohin Bonsai enthusiasts.
Not the smallest I’ve seen, but the smallest I have, this little Rhodohypoxis is just about to pop it’s first flower. I love the pot colour with that rare Irish blue sky!
A great video on YouTube looking at the Omiya Bonsai Village, it’s history and it’s famous gardens.
Might as well add a few others found in the same search.
Friday night was one of my gather up’s of friends to play with trees. We had six on the night, a few no shows due to the sunny day it turned out to be. Who could blame them. The rest of us got on with it.
Stepehn brought this Jasmine. Still pretty much raw material that had struggled last year after a repot. This year was he first it had flowered after collection from a garden.
You can notice in the photo of it’s trunk below that there was some white fungus starting on the bark. This was a dead patch which was removed to create a shari. More on this in a later post, or maybe even on Stephen’s own blog, but I doubt it 😉
Stephen caught in one of those curious moments lol
Brian, new to bonsai, came along. He had a bad experience with a Chinese Elm and I was keen to get him playing with more suitable trees. I gave him this little yew to get him started.
Sharon was there along with a lovely little Black Pine that required some needle removal.
Phil got this Elm group out for a trim.
A great night, especially the last session were the die-hards did a bit of tree critiquing. Finish time 1am and I didn’t even have a single beer!
In one of those brief moments of sunshine a few of my own flowers came out in style.
Bug playing peek-a-boo
Today was our British Summer 🙂 It’s now just 24 hours long!!
Michael invited me over to his place for a look around his trees and to give a little advice. This ended up being 5 hours of me working on his trees while he sat drinking Rum & Coke! [Well, just coke]
I love Michael’s garden he’s some fantastic plants hidden in his borders and I took a few snaps to show you, just don’t ask me what they are!
Michael’s bonsai are sited in three different areas in the garden and he’s plans to set up new benches. This is the main area that was recently redone and a few trees.
I was kept so busy by Michael that I didn’t get any pics of what we were up to, he did however lift my camera and take a few of me slaving away!
Thanks for a very enjoyable day Michael and especially to Alma who made a tasty lunch.
A big thank you to all who have become regular visitors to the site, I have made lots of friends around the world and I thank you all for your support.
I started the blog on the 10th February 2011 with very little expectation as to where I was going with it other than keeping a record of my own trees. Things have got somewhat out of hand 🙂
I thought I would share some of the stats with you .
I have had visitors from 146 countries. These are the top ones from this February from my stats list.
This is my 928th post!! and I’ve had 1849 comments 🙂
It took me 10 months to hit the first 50,000 and 3 months for the last 50,000!
These are my top referrers, if you are on this list, thank you for the links.
These are the folk who got the most referrals from me.
Next stop a quarter of a million!!!
Instead of me doing my own post about my visit to Hugh’s garden, I’ll just reblog Michael’s post. Much easier 😀
Ian young, Bertie Greer and myself had a very enjoyable Monday Evening in Hugh Wilkinson’s garden. Bertie’s role and mine was to sit, observe, drink coffee and eat boiled cake. Hugh kept us entertained with his banter while Ian futtered with his trees and gave them a bit of a tidy up. It was a lovely evening, Hugh’s garden was beautiful and the chat was good. Here are a few pics of the garden and a few of Hugh’s fine collection of trees.
Garden View
Display Area
Putting Hugh to Work
Just far too busy to even look our way
A striking display of Lilies
Although Hugh’s trees are set in a lovely display area he has plans to create yet another one to allow his pines to benefit from better light throughout the day. This should be worth seeing.
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