A few more tree record snaps taken of my my trees. After a few years not bothering my arse to keep decent photographic records, I’m determined to use this blog as a way of keeping them up to date.
Japanese Larch
Scots Pine
Hawthorn
Cotoneaster
Spirea
Potentilla
Cotoneaster
I did a few new Bonsai 360’s yesterday. I can’t embed them here as it’s a free wordpress account 😦 However, you can click on this link and pop over to the NIBS Site and view them there. Just click below to view.
I was playing around with the camera again today. Getting a few better snaps of my trees. Also tried a slightly different lighting set up. It’s still a bit Mickey Mouse, but it’ll do.
These will be the final photos of my Fuji Cherry for the year. When it eventually started turn it went very quickly. I experimented on it this year by defoliating it. I don’t think it made any difference with the depth of colour or how long it held the leaves. This was it on 4th October.
and this was it yesterday with a touch more red colour. Pity most of the leaves have fallen already.
I have been watching this Maple out of my window all week. It has been changing colour in front of my eyes.
This was it back on the 4th October.
and this was it today.
If the wind stays away, I’m in for a treat over the next few days 🙂 Taking it to my club meeting tomorrow night to add a splash of colour.
This weekend I added this Root Over Rock Trident Maple to my Collection. I love working with Tridents and have always loved the root over rock ones that I’ve seen. I spotted this tree at Willowbog Bonsai a few weeks ago and Peter brought it over to NI for me on Friday. It has an interesting rock with a little pool area holding water and it looks like pretty decent ramification. Looking forward to seeing it bare in a few weeks time.
Just an update on some of the colour creeping into my trees.
Fuji Cherry
Raulii
Japanese Maple
Crab Apple
Gingko
This Trident is still intent in growing never mind Autumn colour.
Spirea
Even though I’m trying to cut down on the size of my collection, I just couldn’t pass up this little Cork Bark Elm. I have loads of Corkies, big and small after field growing them over the last 10 years. So why add this one to the collection??
Last Photograph of my Trident Maple before I deliver it to it’s new owner tomorrow.
It’s been in my collection for about 10 years. Sad to see it go, however, as part of my efforts to reduce my collection size and up the quality, it had to go.
As it’s staying in Northern Ireland, I will still get to see it and watch it progress under new management.
This is the layer that I took off the previously posted Hawthorn last year. I lifted it in to the garage on Thursday to remove unwanted shoots.
This is probably closer to the final potting angle.
I know it doesn’t look like it, but there is some pretty good movement in the trunk line of this tree. The Spring foliage was shortened back in June after it flowered. The new shoots you see are all on a chop made in the middle of the tree. These will all have to be removed as this will have to be carved away.
This was it after removing the unwanted branches. I left the low branch on, I think this might make a nice feature.
This is the stump for carving. By the feel of the pot and how steady the tree is, I think there is sufficient roots for this work to be carried out during the Winter.
Considering I was going to just chop this off and bin it, I’m glad I waited for an Air Layer. I have another big Hawthorn that I now plan to layer next Spring.
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