Jul 8 2013

Photos in the Sun

Saturday saw Phil appear in my back garden with a few new trees to get photographed 😉

Stephen cam for a look and Josh appeared with the first load of his collection coming for some Holiday care.

nice 🙂

Sniff test

New Juniper

Juniper Pot

Elm

Elm

Chojubai

Trident

Crab Apple

another Crab Apple

Tiny Musk Maple

accent

Tasty yellow pot and stand combo

stamps

stand detail

slice

nice pot

and another

small stand

unwrapping

root stand, now mine, cheers Phil 🙂

Salute!

Jul 5 2013

Mike’s Satsuki & Juniper

Waz Skeepin we me ole Mucker Mike tuther neet [Sorry, but Mike said I had to type the way he would actually say it, that’s wat he does 🙂 ]

Great screen shot Mike lol, didn’t know I did that did you 😛

Enough of that, I was chatting to Mike on Skype the other night about his workshop weekend with Peter Warren and he was showing me some photos of his Root over Rock Satsuki which I rather like, As he’s such a decent bloke, he said I could share here. Also another little Satuki getting it’s first clear out and a Kishu Juniper as well.

March 2012

17 June 2013

28 June 2013

After Peter Warren Workshop

Stumpy Satuki before workshop

and after

March 2012

Kishu Juniper also from Workshop

Jul 4 2013

Ed’s Garden

Last week I popped into see a new club member Ed. It was a shocking day with constant rain but we still managed to get a look aroung his garden and his growing collection of bonsai. Ed’s only been doing bonsai for about a year and has a mixture of bought trees and raw material that he’s practicing on to gain skill.

Main Bench

His first tree

Cotoneaster

Stewartia

Trident Maple

Jade

Hornbeam

Larch Group

Shohin Juniper before I altered it.

and after

Hawthorn

Kashima Maple

Satsuki Azalea

Overview

Jul 3 2013

He’s Back!!!

Just when you thought it was safe to walk the streets……

And they’re back too 🙂

Checking on how the trees did while he was in Japan

Hawthorn

Shohin Elm

Trident Maple

nice base

stamp

and signed

Loved this sedum in the garden too

Jun 23 2013

Pot Virtual for Michael

As promised Michael, neither pot is ideal but it shows the improvement.

Jun 21 2013

The Rest

A few other ones from Saturdays session. Not all of them, I missed a few.

Ian B’s Maple

Michael’s Juniper

Michael’s Hawthorn photographed for a pot virtual. Give it a go, you know you want to 🙂

Jun 19 2013

Root Over Rock Juniper

Another one of Stephen’s brought on Saturday. This one a Common Juniper. We wanted to make a few changes to the longer branch cascading down over the rock. The over all image was not that exciting at this point.

You’ll also see Stephen here frantically weeding before I got the camera out, or so he thought 🙂

This is it after a shortening of that branch and a general thinning out. However the cascading branch visually looks as if it goes towards the back and the left hand side of the tree looks very flat.

This is the tree rotated slightly which improves the image for me, however the shape of the rock means that it would never fit in the pot at that angle.

Therefore we wired the cascading branch more to the front and also added a guy line that pulls the apex round to a better position, therefore creating the same image without the rotation.

We failed to get a photo after we added a little Cotoneaster to the bottom left of the rock. Next step will be a full wiring, but not now 🙂

Jun 18 2013

Maple Defoliation

Stephen came down to my place on Saturday to get his Maple sorted. The canopy was extremely full and the inner branches would start to suffer unless we did a partial defoliation. This was it before we started.

As you can see we had a few other with us making the most of the day.

Look at the mess he made of my carpet.

Is that them all?

The after shot. Light now penetrates the canopy and will help maintain vigour on those inner branches.

This video shows this tree back in February being repotted.

Jun 6 2013

Snart on Tour Stop 8

After a quick meal back at home, we both headed over to Josh’s Garden for the last stop on our Tour. I have a funny feeling that this was Peter’s favourite stop.

Josh has quite simply some of the best field grown bonsai in the UK. See for yourself.

Massive Beech Collected from a local park 20 years ago

Field Maple from same park

Ulmus Glabra

Turkey Oak

Pine Torture 🙂

Closer look

Oak Bark detail

Copper Beech

Beech Nebari

First year in a pot.

Raulli

May 15 2013

Sharon’s Garden and Bonsai

I had the pleasure of visiting Sharon’s garden on Monday. I was chatting to her at the club meeting on Friday night and said I’d be passing near her place and she offered a coffee. Never one to turn down the chance to look at bonsai and drink coffee, I called to see her collection. When I arrives she was happily working away on a tree in her greenhouse. It was my first time at Sharon’s and although I’ve seen many of her trees before, I didn’t realise that she had so many! When I told her I counted over 50, she was surprised herself ❗

Her garden is small and she has made great use of the space and has to be commended for the quality of her collection. There was plenty there that I’d jump at the chance to have on my own benches. She even pointed out a few that she had bought from me years ago. Needless to say they are 100 times better now! Here are some photos but!!! here’s the problem, I forgot to take my camera, so what you’ll see were taken with my phone, so apologies for the quality of the photos.