First one has a fern, Saxifrage Mount Nachii, Hosta Iced Lemon and leptinella.
Sedum sp. and leptinella
Tag Archives: bonsai
Fathers Day Walk
I was up and out for my walk on Sunday before my kids even surfaced. In fact I think I was back before they surfaced 🙂
A great morning for a dander along the coast.
Early morning sun behind the Beech trees.
Iris sea view.
Maggie showing her disrespect for the law 🙂 Smudge is already look past this. My excuse was that the dogs can’t read !!
Beach party tricks 🙂
Common Spotted Orchid – Dactylorhiza fuchsii
I have a few of these that had self seeded into pots. I wasn’t sure what variety of orchid they were until they flowered. Not thanks to the power of social media I have them identified as Common Spotted Orchid – Dactylorhiza fuchsii. My next challenge is to get them into a kusamono planting next year.
Sisyrinchium
These Sisyrinchium are fast becoming addictive! Here are 3 of the four that I have. The only missing one is the Yellow ‘Californium’. I’m on the hunt for more 🙂
E.K. Balls
Biscutella
Dragons Eye
Sisyrinchium ‘EK Balls’
My Satsuki
This is my satsuki azalea, I have it more for flowers than for bonsai but it gives me pleasure at this time of year. I didn’t let it flower last year to help build strength. It has four flower types but I have only put photos of three below. The missing one is a pale pink flower with a dark pink stripe. Those ones have still to open. The first few photos where taken a few days apart so you can see it opening.
Dark Pink
Pale Pink
Mix
Airlayering Progression
Graham’s two videos on airlayering a crab apple. This is the original one from 3 years ago.
and this is the new update.
BSA Exhibition Video Parts 3&4
Two more for you.
Accent Rhodohypoxis Deflexa
Accent – Gunnera!
No, not one of the hugh leafed Gunneras that we see blotting the landscape. This is one of the small varieties that hails from New Zealand I think. I don’t have the full botanicial name for it and if one of you plant nerds can ID it, I’d love to know. I can’t remember seeing one as an accent before but I’d love to be proved wrong on that point. I got this one from Pat in Waterford in a plant swap session. Cheers Pat, I love it. Pot is a Wallsall Ceramics creation.Again, it’s going to take a while to fill out but I’ll keep you posted with how it matures.
Welcome Home Old Pal
Peter Snart kindly delivered my Root Over Rock Trident Maple back to me a few weeks back. It had been over at Willowbog Bonsai for the BSA Exhibition. This is it as I got it back. A little over grown but in fine health as you’d expect 😉
I had to address the overgrown shoots that had now overly thickened some of the outer canopy. The only way I could do this was by defoliation and then thinning out of the fat areas. This was it after defoliation.
and again after thinning out, you can see I’ve also removed the moss, I want to be able to keep an eye on the watering better and the moss was obscuring my view of this and also taking some of the water for itself.
In hindsight I have missed an opportunity 😦 I should have left the bottom few branches untouched to allow them to fatten further to get a better balance in the tree. Ah well…
Bonsai Eejit 