My friend Mariusz attended the East meets West Bonsai Exhibition in Poland a few weeks ago. As usual he took some fantastic photos. Here are a few of my favourite trees from the display. As you can tell, I’m in Pine mode these days 🙂
For the rest of Mariusz’s photos click the image below.
As most of my club are going to descend on my garden this weekend I did a tidy up. My shoulder is just about useless this week, so Stephen came down and gave me a hand clearing the garage.
I moved a few trees around. Here is my display area this afternoon.
Here’s the rest of the photos from the NIBS Spring display.
After a day setting up the display and 2 days of demos and tree critiques, I’m absolutely shattered!! Was it worth it? I had great fun and the help from new club members, and there obvious enjoyment of the event, made it all worth while. I got to meet some new people who visited the display over the two days and were obviously keen to learn. Lets hope they seize the day and join the club. Here’s a few photos from the display.
Tree Critique in progress
That’s it, enough’s enough, I’m away to bed. More tomorrow.
Hardly have time to post anything yesterday and today with our club display in full swing. Nursing a fuzzy head this morning after last nights celebratory beers watching the Champions League Final. I’ll have plenty of stuff to add during the week.
I had a great time yesterday doing a tree critique session with some members and the public.
After getting the big OK last night that the display was going ahead as planned, Dobbies tried to shaft us again this morning. Wanted us to have demo and display in the middle of a bloody restaurant for 2 days so a 1 hour kids party could use the display room. Make sense? Not to me!! Car was already packed so I went over and chewed out 2 managers who didn’t have a leg to stand on. After a heated exchange, mostly on my part, they backed down when I said we were walking away and reverted to the original plan. My secret spy on the staff says the minions working there are delighted 🙂
So, drama over this was my day in pics.
Trees from here…
to here…
to this..
which we changed to this…
and then to this..
The usual tweaks to be made to the display in the morning when more trees arrive. Now looking forward to a few days of pure bonsai 🙂
Plenty more photos being taken tomorrow.
After spending 4 hours today getting trees sorted out for the club display this weekend, I got a phone call from the garden centre to say the room was double booked!! After being offered a very poor second area for the display, I reminded them that it was they who invited us this weekend, we had advertised the event, we had booked it first and we where using it for 2 full days not a private party for 2 hours.
After informing them that if we couldn’t have the room, then we were binning it and they could tell the visitors why there was no bonsai, they changed their minds and let us have the room. Not a great start, lets hope the set up goes better tomorrow. Here’s a few trees I’m putting in. As I’m doing a tree critique, and want to talk about specific things, these trees have been picked to allow me to babble away merrily.
In for the flowers only.
I have been admiring the bronze Sculptures being used in recent shows and have been thinking about making a purchase. I just love these ones by Henk Fresen.
and these two miniatures.
I was also directed to Mendip Bonsai website who also sell bronze sculptures but are slightly cheaper. These are the ones I like from there.
I prefer Henk’s work but I think I’ll have to work on the wife to get permission to purchase one 🙂
I had the pleasure of visiting my friend Roy’s garden today along with Stephen. I have been meaning to get over to Roy’s Garden for a long time and it never seems to work out. I was therefore delighted today when the opportunity presented itself. My main aim was to get a few photos for the club website and have a good nosey around. Both achieved.
Here are a few general snaps of Roy’s back garden.
Here are some of Roy’s bonsai.
My favourite was this root over rock Trident. One side has a beautiful hollow in the stone to use to create a water pool but the roots are not as good. The other side has a more convincing root set up and the main pruning scar is hidden, but the rock isn’t as nice. Nice problems to have in my opinion. We discussed a different pot for next year.
I love this pot!
I’m hoping to get back in a weeks time to give Roy a hand with a few bonsai projects that need attention. If you’re reading this Roy, thanks for your time today mate.
Today I went to my mate Stephen’s house to take a few record photos of his trees. Here’s a few that looked particularly nice. A big thank you to Stephen who donated a few trees to my son Matthew who is showing an interest in bonsai. If you are reading this Jamie, between Stephen and myself, there’s a few trees in this for you too 🙂
This was the set up for the photos.
And this is where I talked Stephen into posing with his Deshojo for scale purposes. You would think he’d look happier with a tree like that beside him 🙂
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