Was lucky enough to have this fabulous Rose named after her. This is from my garden and this is my wife’s favourite. God help any kid who hits it with a football! 🙂
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Scots Pine Needle Size (Watering Difficulties)
No not mine but I have seen two almost dead pines during the last month and wanted to clear up a myth regarding watering of pines.
My own small Scots Pine is building up a nice framework of branching this previous three years. Come the Autumn I will thin the tree out by around 40-50% to enable me to shape further. Minor pruning can be carried out now, but do ensure you seal cuts. For now the appropriate feeding and watering regime with a position of full sun all day, has given me quality sized needles.
Yes, the tree is rotated, but does indeed sit in sun all day long. Watering is generally twice daily at the moment, as the gorgeous weather we are having .. and owed some; is ensuring most of my trees dry out quite quickly. And it really was this watering I wanted to mention.
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WOW! WOW! For the Wings of a Dove
Take the hand of another and sing for the wings of a dove!
Hey! If Peter Warren can slip in numerous song quotes and links to Youtube videos, then so can bloody I 🙂
Madness I tell you!
I had the pleasure of watching this collared Dove from my computer window all morning. It is obviously building a nest in a neighbour’s Leylandii. It didn’t care a jot if I was watching it prance around the trees looking for twigs. It did get rather confused by a bit of bonsai wire that resulted in a tug of war for a few minutes 😉
Walk in the woods Giant Bird!
Leave the apples alone!
weeding
Twinkle in the eye
Oooh! Shiny twig
Tug,tug,tug,tug….
Ah feck that
this one will do 🙂
Interesting fact, growing up and having a love for bird watching, I never saw these Collared Doves. They started to spread into Europe from Asia and were first sighted in the UK in the 50’s and now have a extensive population in urban areas.
Ballycotton Cliff Walk, County Cork
Can’t believe I have never been to Cork!
So this is the second destination i went to yesterday evening. I decided to go for a walk along the cliffs by Ballycotton, in County Cork. It took longer than i expected but made it back to the harbor for a few pictures of the sun about to set. Really nice.
Enjoy again.
Siberian Elm Leaf Size.
Great post from Mike who inspired me to start blogging in the first place. It’s all his fault!
Although this Siberian Elm is a tree that looks better in a winter image, it is still never-the-less a deciduous tree, that for seven to eight months of the year is in full leaf. I always felt it a shame to just let it grow and wait until winter. Sure late Autumn the leaves turn yellow and if we are lucky with winds, it looks nice at this time, as many fall leaving a ‘skeleton’ like look.
The single biggest flush is as the new leaves settle in early Spring; toward mid to late Spring it starts to look untidy. This year I knew that I wanted to reduce the tree down, or reduce the size of the canopy width primarily whilst balancing up the rest of the tree at the same time. Here it can be seen at mid to late Spring.
The sheep of course don’t do a…
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The Kennett Collection
Well worth checking out the links that Erick has shared here on his blog. Some interesting stuff about the best collection of Bonsai in the States.
First styling!! A step in the right direction: chronicles of a bonsai show
What an action packed show!!
I don’t know if any of you have ever organized a show: cat show, book show, bonsai show, or whatever else. Well, I have: a cat show a couple of years back and believe me, it’s not an easy task! Without getting into details about my experience as President of our cat club (Abyssinians Breed Club Europe), I would like to report my view of the Swiss Bonsai Show held in Lugano on 8-9 June, 2013.
As a visitor of the show, I must first and foremost say “hats off”! When someone like the Bonsai Club Ticino (a local bonsai club in Switzerland) puts up a show about bonsai, suiseki, kusamono and much more, as someone who’s been through this before, it is immediately clear to me the effort that every single person invested, the energy and nerves, the struggle to organize vendors, the eternal search for sponsors, the…
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Kusamono di quasi un anno ;)
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Lone Wolf with Cub. How a Samurai became Bonsai
Blog post is moved to Bonsai Empire’s blog: How a Samurai became Bonsai, Literati style.
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A surprise visit from Ian Young
It’s good to talk 🙂
I had the pleasure of meeting Ian Young (Bonsai Eejit) today. Like most saturday mornings I was standing in work asking myself “Why am I standing in work?” when Ian came wondering up the steps. I’ve been talking to Ian through his blog (Bonsaieejit.com) so it was nice to finally meet him in person.
It was nice to find out a bit more about the Northern Ireland Bonsai Society and what they get up to throughout the year. I’m looking forward to getting involved when they meet again in September. At least that gives me a couple of months to get to grips with the basics so I don’t make an idiot of myself.
If you haven’t done so already, go and check out Ian’s blog for some inspiration and say hello to him. His enthusiasm for Bonsai is pretty infectious so I can understand why everyone…
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Bonsai Eejit 