Nov 16 2014

Video – Burrs 2014 Part 1

Nov 16 2014

Image

Swindon Winter Image Show

Nov 16 2014

PAS Pottery

At Burrs last Sunday (has it really been a full week?) I had the pleasure of meeting Patricia from PAS Pottery who had an amazing collection of shohin and accent pots for sale.

These pots where made in Shigaraki in Japan where she spent 4 months learning some new ceramic techniques. We had a good chat about some of the techniques she used in creating her pots and her passion for ceramics was clear to see. These are a few of the photos that I took. I even managed to buy a pot for a shohin Juniper I have. I deliberated for ages about the size as she had a slightly bigger one there. I opted for the smaller pot, and you guessed it, it’s too small!! Always good to have the tree with you 🙂

Here’s a few more from Patricia’s Site. Also follow her on Facebook .

Nov 15 2014

One to One – Larch

I had Ben here for a one to one session today. He brought this big Japanese Larch with him. He collected it with us a few years ago and it had grown strongly under his care. This is the tree as collected.

This was it at 12pm today. The session saw us having to make a few decisions.

Ben was keen to make a twin trunk image but the two main trunks were both similar in size and thickness. We talked through the options and eliminated the faults leaving everything else for wiring.

A few bends were added to improve the trunk line to the apex and we shaped it to create this first styling image, and as you can see, it’s a twin trunk, just not the trunk that was expected.

This was it at 5pm.

Before and after

Nov 15 2014

Tony’s Garden

Most of these have probably appeared on Facebook over the last week but I’ll share anyway. These where taken in Tony’s garden. It was great to see some of these trees in the flesh having only seen them in photos and websites over the years. It’s hard to not be impressed with the quality of the Yews in his collection but what most interested me was the quality of the ramification on the Hawthorn. Also nice to see some humble projects being worked on as well with rock plantings catching my eye. I only wish I’d seen it in Summer for a closer look at the accents, my other passion. Most were already in their Winter state. A few pots here as well that caught my eye.

Nov 14 2014

Up at Allotments

Tony gave us a look at his yamadori collection at his allotment. If only he had the forethought to arrange a dry day. 🙂 Thankfully Sunday saw a blue sky. These are some of the snaps taken over a few visits, some very exciting trees, especially some of the demo trees set aside for Bonsai Europa 2015 .