You guessed it… Part 5
Harry’s just told me that’s he’s halfway through the photos! I almost feel that I was there, well, not really:!:
It’s great that Harry has taken shots of the cards as well to allow us all to see the exhibitors names and give credit were it’s due.
A big thank you to Harry who is slaving away getting these compressed etc for posting. Looking forward to seeing who the winners are tomorrow.
I see Mark and Ritta’s Shohin display in this one. Having seen it in the flesh last year, I know just how impressive the standard is.
As per last year, even though I didn’t make it to the Trophy, it’s great to have friends 🙂
Harry Van Herck has helped me out once again. Here are the first of his photos from this Years Noelanders Trophy. There’s that many I’ll post them in batches as I get them. I know there’s more than me out there waiting for a good look at how this year’s show has gone. I especially asked Harry to get the shohin as well, and he came through for me 🙂
Enjoy.
I did a little thinning out of unwanted buds on this maple. I also wanted to remove the moss that was mostly growing on the tree and hiding the nebari. I also noticed a new root emerging from the moss, it’s on the move already.
root emerging
Trunk and nebari hidden
Afterwards with moss removed
Nebari uncovered
This is a pretty raw Purple beech that was field grown. I cut back some of the unwanted growth and did a little wiring to direct branches into the right areas. long term project but great colour in leaf and brightens up a bench.
After
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Our dedicated club treasurer was at my house yesterday and we worked on a few trees, mostly minor tweaks and a little wiring.
This is his Japanese Larch that has thickened a little in a few places and we removed what we could replacing branches with a finer structure.
Before original front
Before slightly different angle
After
As expected, last nights club meeting was a very low turn out due to the road blocks and protesters across Belfast.
However 7 brave souls and me managed to get there. We used a smaller room and managed to have a great nights craic 🙂
Phil with the usual hat glued to his head.
and his usual two fingered salute. Ben appears to be taking steps with side branch cutters to cut Phil off in his prime. Also note, a rare sighting of Harry on the left most camera shy guy I know 🙂
Is that a Christmas jumper Michael? 🙂
Ben slightly traumatised having been beside Phil all night!
A special mention must go to Alan who after hitting his fourth roadblock gave up and went home. Good try Alan
I’m on the European Bonsai Forum among many others. I tend to read and lurk more than post there. Something I should Try and do something about!
I felt compelled to share a link to this post titled ‘Enrico Savini. Progetto futuro bonsai school’ I’m pretty sure everyone can read it without being an enrolled member. That said, it’s worth signing up to for those of us with Native European species.
Why am I sharing a link to this post? Simple, It is refreshing to read an honest account of bonsai in Europe. Enrico’s thoughts on Yamadori, tree pricing really struck a cord with me.
Don’t take my word for it, read it for yourself. Just click on the image below to visit the post.
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