Nov 13 2013

Dancing Hawthorn

Named by Mike Jones a few years back due to the branch structure looking like a dancer with the arms thrown up into the air. This year saw absolutely amazing growth over the Summer. This one has nice fine growth compared to many Hawthorn. Again I will be doing some maintenance pruning while it is bare and some wiring to direct a few errant branches. I may even shift it into a more suitable pot in the Spring, this one was just for training, it was all that fitted at the time of it’s last repot.

This was it back in 2011.

Nov 12 2013

Silver Birch

My Silver Birch was just reaching it’s peak Autumn colour, almost ready for a record snap when the wind arrived and shredded it!

This is it, front and back although after a closer look at the tree I’m making a change of front not shown here. More on that another time.

It’s still pretty raw, some carving required to sort out a few issues but I’m delighted how the ramification has improved this year, a great growing season and not a single branch dropped, as they are prone to do. Some wiring now required over the Winter to get the structure tidied up a bit.

Nov 11 2013

Yesterday’s Walk

It’s been a while since I posted any photos of my ritual Sunday walk, mostly due to the fact that I do the same walks frequently and there is only so many things you can snap. I don’t get time to stop and get the set up right either, my big bro sets a fast pace and I’d get left behind 🙂 Therefore any snaps I take are pause and shoot and jog to catch up again.

Yesterday, we did an old favourite, Sawmills at Crawfordsburn Road to Helens Bay and on to Bangor marina, about 8 miles I think. I did take a few just to capture what was a great morning, a nice frost on the ground and some nice Autumn woodland colour, oh, and a few nosy cattle.

Nov 10 2013

Video

Shuga Ten Video

Unless you understand French, you might want to skip to 9.30 to see trees.

Nov 8 2013

Shuga Ten 2013

Juan Andrade, who is apprenticing at Aichien very kindly shared some photos taken at Shuga Ten on Facebook. I was blown away by some of the quality trees. I have shared a few of my favourites below but Juan tells me that John Milton will be sharing them all on his blog soon, so keep an eye open for this.

Nov 7 2013

A Nice Touch

Japan Erects Massive Sculpture of the Last Standing Tree from a Forest Destroyed by the 2011 Tsunami

Click image for link.

Nov 6 2013

Video

Bonsai Art of Japan Ep 39

Nov 6 2013

Natural Flux

I would love to get a look at this exhibition set up by Peter Warren, but sadly I’m stuck across the water. I’ll have to make do with the photos.

More info here on the website and Facebook Page

Nov 5 2013

Seeking Light Part 3

Andrew Sellman’s 3rd installment.

Nov 5 2013

Getting There….

Getting near full leaf drop thanks to a drop in temp and a few days of high winds. I do still have 2 tridents that look like they are 4 months behind though!!