This Ginkgo is past it’s best Autumn colour after a few windy days battering the leaves. This is a final show of colour for the year.
Category My Bonsai
New Tunnel Ordered
I took the plunge today and ordered a new Poly Tunnel for added space for over Wintering my trees. This year I hope to have everything tucked away somewhere. This is what should be delivered next Tuesday.
It’s the slightly stronger version with heavier frame. I rang the company to order it and told them I had seen the same one on ebay cheaper. Turns out that the ebay site is theirs as well. He gave it to me for the cheaper ebay price but, as usual, living in Northern Ireland, even though we are still part of the UK, I had to pay an extra £10 postage [grumble grumble, pet hate] That said, all in, postage and all, it only cost me £82.
One of my benches is on it’s last legs and will be taken apart this weekend to make room of its arrival. Anybody free on Wednesday to help me put it up? No harm in asking 😀
Uncovered Roots
The birds where at their work again! This time they striped the moss off this juniper that I had repotted in the Spring. I was amazed to see just how many roots were showing underneath. This is normally a slowish tree to establish roots.
A Few Others From Yesterday
Some from my very wet and windswept benches.
Wild, Wet, Windy…
And I still braved the elements to take a few photos today!
I watched this Japanese Maple get striped by the wind over the last 24 hours. This is all that’s left.
A few of the leaves showing the range of colour. This one had green, yellow, orange, red and perhaps a little purple!
A few others.
Fuji Cherry in 2011
My Fuji in 2011
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Away for the Winter
I lifted a few of my trees away from their stands today. They had finished their show for the year and are now being tucked away for the Winter.
This Fuji Cherry was nearly bare.
It is totally bare now 🙂
I’m going to look up a few of the photos from this tree during the year and do a season by season post. Should be nice seeing the flowers fruit and Autumn colour all on one page.
This Crab Apple has also dropped all it’s leaves. I took the wire off before putting it away for Winter. All branches seem to have set from it’s wiring in the Spring.
Golden Escallonia Dig today
Today’s task is to collect this Escallonia from my dad’s garden.
This is a previous post about the tree. Golden Escallonia
The best thing about this dig today, my Dad has already dug it up. 🙂 He only recently decided to remove it and wanted to get a willow planted in it’s place. My Dad being my Dad, couldn’t wait until I lifted it so he went ahead and done it himself! Not bad for an 85 year old!! Hope I’m that fit if I make it to that age, in fact, he’s fitter than me now!!! 🙂 I’ll post photos of the tree tomorrow.
Bonsai in the Afternoon
Over the last few months I have started having impromptu bonsai sessions on mid week afternoons with a few friends. This was normally the preserve of a Friday evening but there isn’t enough Friday evenings in a month 😀
My usual freinds attending these afternoon sessions are Stephen and Michael. However yesterday, Phil also joined us. He said he hadn’t had a day off work since April and wanted to play with trees.
Phil worked on the deadwood of this Juniper. It had been carved with power tools a while back but Phil wanted to change this to a more natural looking image by doing some work by hand. It had some basic shaping a few years ago but is now ready for a more structured wiring.
Front
Back
Before [well nearly before. We forgot to take a photo at the start]
After [ well, not quite as he’s still to finish it!]
This is what he left behind for me to clean up 🙂
I brought this yew in to work on. I bought it many years ago as a big garden centre tree in a tub. It got a little bit of styling but it’s health went down hill rapidly! Turns out it was full of vine weevil!! I killed them off but the tree was very weak. I put iy in the ground for about 8 years and it got a few clippings in that time. It still remained weak for much for this period. About a year ago it was dug up and put in this beautiful red tray [not] and has grown well this year. I’m trying to cut back on the number of trees sitting about the place and decided that if I do a little work on this, I might be able to sell it some time next year. Here is the before and after pics after todays work. Major pruning and setting of a basic branch structure.
It’s got 5 trunks if you count the dead one. For some reason I haven’t taken a photo of the actual new front. The tree needs to spin slightly more clockwise to bring all the trunks into view.With some filling out, and some added shari put on the boring straight sections on the trunk, it might actually sell 🙂
I’ll add Michael and Stephen’s work on another post.
Late Root Growth
I’m noticing a lot of strong late root growth in my trees this year, especially in my Japanese Maples. Roots are appearing out of the soil surface and these are mostly trees that have been repotted this year!
and on my escallonia too.
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