Well done Nicola.
Yes, another Yew, no fancy yamadori this time. I grew this one from a cutting!
This was it earlier in the year in a training pot.
While over at Bonsai Europa I fell in love with some of the great pots on the Sperling Keramic stand. I had never even heard of Sperling before! A very friendly service with some amazing pots. I picked up this little pot for another tree but wasn’t happy with the match so I’ve decided to use it for this little Yew.
This is it just potted up. A thinning out required this year and some extra shari work.
This was the tree back in 2011 after initial styling.
A few other pots from Sperling Keramic in case you want to see what else came back to Northern Ireland.
We are have pleasure to welcome all bonsai interested to our first workshop in 2016 with Ian Young and Phil Donnelly from NIBS. The event is going to take place 06/02/2016 10.00-17.00 as usually in Mark’s place.
Lovely atmosphere, and lots of knowledge, snacks and tea…
All interested are very welcome and pleas contact me at 0867705560 or twinsrat.bonsai@gmail.com
A couple years back I wrote a post which became one of most viewed posts I’ve ever written. It was about Turface and similar soil ingredients like Oil-Dri and Profile, and my skepticism about their qualities as a bonsai soil ingredient, following 30 years of experience with many different soil types. The post was meant to call into question the belief that Turface is the best soil ingredient. I don’t believe it is, having witnessed its performance for years, but that doesn’t mean you can’t grow a tree in it, or that it may be one of the few options in your area due to availability issues.
In rough strokes, there have been three main evolutions in our soil usage in North America. Earliest was the potting soil/sharp sand period, decades ago. Then came the Turface era, which was definitely an improvement on the earlier mixes. Then came the volcanic mixes…
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More Bonsai friendship, this time from Tony over on bonsaiko.
I’ve been wanting to write a blog post about this tree for sometime but what to write about it, it’s challenging to decide. There could be several possible topics that could be written about it but what I will attempt do convey is how this tree developed beautifully throughout the years but how it also became a symbol of friendship.
Around 2005(2006) when I was responsible for bringing in guest artist to Puget Sound Bonsai Association for their monthly meeting demonstration. I brought in Boon Manakitivipart to the club since I’ve taken his bonsai intensive class before and he is an excellent teacher. When Boon got here, I took him on a tour at the Elandan Gardens. At the time my friend Don Guilliams ( who started with the club about the same time I did) volunteered to go with us on the trip. During the trip I wanted to buy a…
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2015 was pretty busy year for Monster Bonsai Club
Experience Japan in Dublin (our first exhibition )
Summer workshop in Bunratty “Bud” garden center
The Bonsai Experience Belfast ours mother club exhibitions, with some ours trees on display
plus monthly club meetings. I hope it was well worth to join us and get that all.
The coming 2016 is going to bring more events…
This gallery contains 20 photos.
Originally posted on Bonsai & Yamadori from Tony Tickle:
I have been using this technique now for over ten years and I have finally decided to share what I have learned. The technique is known as ‘sweating’ and is used…
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 180,000 times in 2015. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 8 days for that many people to see it.
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