These two have flushed out again after defoliation.
Rescue Maple
Silver Birch
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Edilweiss Accent
My Edilweiss Accent reaching its peak.
Hardening Off
I decided yesterday to do a little shuffling of trees that had been collected in the Spring. Well, when I say me, I mean my two sons working under my direction.
Most where still in poly tunnels and I wanted to get them out to harden off a bit. The foliage as you can see here shows that most have responded well after collecting. There was a mixture of Scots Pine, Spruce and Larch.
I’m running rather low on space!! Had to add a few temporary benches to facilitate them.
All squeezed in! With trees visiting on holiday care it’s a tight fit!
Olympics London 2012
With the Olympics kicking off this weekend I thought I’d share this funny video.
Olympics – Don’t Try This at Home 😀
And They’re Out..
Hosta flowers finally made an appearance. Thought I would share before they are washed away by the rain!
Proof of Life #3
By now you are thinking that I actually have no bonsai of my own and my garden is full of other peoples trees! You might be right!!
This one is for Valerie. Her Arakawa Maple was in desperate need of major pruning and a major repot at the Willowbog workshop back in May. As the tree was already in full leaf, we opted to defoliate, prune and repot all in one go. I decided to keep it for the Summer for some special aftercare. This is it now. I think you should be happy with this Valerie 🙂
Irish Bonsai Club – Interested?
Back in November I asked, Does anyone Irish still do Bonsai?
Well, things have moved on and I’m doing my bit to assist with the start up of a Bonsai Club/Study Groups in Ireland.
Adam, from Cork, is determined to get the ball rolling and I’ve offered my personal support and also that of our club The Northern Ireland Bonsai Society.
Adam is currently gathering names and email addresses to assess where the majority of those interested live. The club will then be tailored to fit the make-up of the group. I can see study groups starting in Cork, Dublin and Galway or, at the very least, getting people in contact with each other in these areas. These groups will all be part of the one club organising events, trips workshops etc.
There’s no name yet, there’s no website yet but this will come soon. The question is:
Are You Interested?
If the answer is yes, drop an email to Adam at irishbonsai@gmail.com to register your interest.
This is it folks, now is your chance. It takes someone to step up and you have waited for many years for this to happen. Step up now and get this going. If it doesn’t happen now, how much longer will you have to wait??!!
Proof of Life #2
This one is for Geraldine and in a way Mr Snart as well. I have been looking after these two trees since the last Willowbog Bonsai workshop. I just want to update Geraldine on the progress.
First is her Itogawa Juniper. It had been slow to respond after the work done last Autumn and Peter suggested that we repot into a larger pot with a greater surface area to push it on. The old mix was compacted and the pot was restrictive. This seems to have done the trick.
Next up is her Shohin Trident Maple root over rock. It was defoliated and repotted to deal with similar problems to the Juniper. I have already had to shorten extension growth twice since then.
Proof of Life #1
This is specially for Mario who was getting suspicious that I hadn’t posted any photos of his Itogawa Juniper.
Here you go mate. It was very slow this Spring and I felt a slightly larger pot than it was in would help give it a lift in this development stage. It’s now in the pot your black pine was in.
The Sacrifice branch is gone, it was putting a lot of effort into that and I felt it was better to push on with areas that were more important. As you can see, new growth is forthcoming.
You are getting a fair amount of juvenile foliage too but at least it’s healthy.
Bonsai Blogger
I start things and after a while I forget. One of these has been my posting of good bonsai blogs that catch my eye.
After reading a post this morning from Salva in Malaga I felt the need to start this again. Click on the banner image below to visit a post from him regarding work on a Juniper. Blog now added to my ever growing favourites list on the sidebar. Obviously in Spanish, Google Translate to the rescue.
Bonsai Eejit 