I love this time of year, watching each plant and tree waking up. These two are showing signs. A Mukdemia Rossi and Muscari.
Kick Up The Backside
That’s what I need!! I’ve been so neglectful of this blog it’s a disgrace on my part. I’ve been trying to figure out why it’s been a struggle and have came to the following conclusion.
I normally use a proper camera for photos but lately I’ve found myself relying on the phone camera just from a practical point of view. I also sit at the desktop computer a lot less. A combo of these and the hassle of transferring photos that have built up in their hundreds on my phone means I just skip blogging. So, in an effort to sort this I’m going to try and do more blogging via WordPress app on my phone. This one being the first.
As a trial run, here’s some snaps from a one to one session with Ben last week were we did a little repotting and potting up of trees recently dug up from his garden.
1 to 1 with Bonsai Eejit – Large Hinoki
During a two day session with Ian Young, we worked through a few repottings that I would have found challenging alone.
The first was a Hinoki Cypress (Chaemecyparis obstusa ‘Nana Gracilis’) styled about a year previous. It originally was a nursery tree with a lot of crossing and looping roots which had been partially unraveled in a previous re-pot.
Un-typically for a conifer a hose was used to remove grit, peat and field soil to allow us untangle the roosts.
Many roots were shortened where possible, a few removed but despite reducing the apparent bulk of the root ball we managed to retain a really good contingent of roots.
Due to the success of the root preparation work, we were able to put the tree into a much shallower pot than I would have initially expected.
The finished product (on the day) went into my tunnel for some protection during…
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Last 2 workshops of 2018
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The last 2 workshops with Bonsai Eejit went great and we went through everything from pot selection to displaying trees and deadwood. In the December workshop we held a photoshoot as part of the class where…
2018 38th Nippon Bonsai Taikan Exhibition Part 1
The 38thNippon Bonsai Taikan Exhibition opens tomorrow, November 23 and runs through November 26, 2018 at the Miyako Messe Exhibition Hall in Kyoto, Japan. Shinji Suzuki is the chairman this year and the exhibition is special with several private displays. This is the 30thyear of the Heisei Period, the current era in Japan. In October 2019 Japan will be enthroning a new Emperor which means a new era will begin. Therefor this will be the last Nippon Bonsai Taikan Exhibition in the Heisei Period. There are several new changes and the entire layout is a bit different, many with taller display areas. Quite a bit of advertising has been posted on Facebook and Mr. Suzuki has been writing a series of articles during the past month in a major Kyoto Newspaper.
I’ve been fortunate to have attended and studied nearly 30 of these exhibitions and have…
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The Exposed Root Japanese Five-needle Pine
This Japanese five-needle pine, Pinus parviflora cv., is growing in Ritsurin Garden in Takamatsu, Japan. It is on the shore of Nako Pond in front of the Kikugetsu-tei tea house complex and has been named “The Exposed Root Japanese Five-needle Pine.”
It was originally a small bonsai and the 11thTokugawa Shogun, Ienari (1773-1841), presented the bonsai to the 9thLord of the Matsudaira clan, Yorihiro (1798-1842.) The family treasured this bonsai but were afraid they will kill it, so they planted it in their garden for preservation. And it did thrive!
The exposed roots of the tree form the focal point for the garden tree. This is not the common Japanese five-needle pine, because it was grafted. I’m not certain of the exact cultivar of this tree, but it has short blue-green needles, similar to the cultivar ‘Miyajima.’ The graft union can still be distinctively seen. In…
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NIBS Peter Warren Workshop November 2018
I was very fortunate to grab a last minute place on this Northern Ireland Bonsai Society workshop with Peter Warren of Saruyama Bonsai in Newtonards last weekend. A 500 mile round trip in 24 hours left me physically tired, but the experience of working once more with Peter was educational and energising.
My tree was a larch clump collected in late 2014, it was first worked on in early 2016 at a Munster Bonsai Club workshop. It has a main trunk and several smaller trunks radiating around it, which emerge from beneath the surface. Part of any future re-potting will be to explore these secondary trunks and try to make more explicit their connection to the main trunk.
Because it had grown so well over the past few years it was quite dense and cluttered looking. I had expected a lot of growth to be removed and while quite a…
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We Shall Remember Them
Shohin Course With Morten Albek
Sakka Ten 2018
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