More great photos shared from the Bonsai Days Blog. This time they are from the 9th Higo Gayu-kai Exhibition. A club with some great bonsai. For more information about some of the displays shown and to see who won the public vote, visit Bonsai Days.
After a crap night’s sleep on Thursday night listening to a pretty bad storm blattering my bedroom window I awoke and went to work. On my return home I thought I better have a check around the trees.
Not good!!
My big Scot’s Pine took a dive off the bench and travelled a good few feet before hitting the ground smashing the lovely Ian Ballie pot 😦 I also lost a few minor branches which I can live with. This is the tree that I was going to use for my workshop with Ryan Neil in January.
On the way down it took a Japanese Black Pine and a Cotoneaster with it. No broken pots but the Cotoneaster has a partially broken branch that I’ve patched up in the hope that it will recover.
I used some sealer and then a wrap around of self amalgamating tape to keep the wound from drying out.
This other Scottie in training also took a tumble. The wind must have had some serious gusts to shift this one from were it was sitting!! Only in a wash hand basin thank goodness!
Lesson learned!!
The latest video offering from Graham. Personally I wouldn’t be cleaning the trunk of a tree while a mate is using a power tool a few inches away, but I think that’s more down to who my mates are 🙂
A few more shots from the weekend, this time it’s the workshop on the Sunday. I haven’t been able to alter the photos with photoshop to improve the indoor shots but at least these will give you a feel for the day. Some shots of a few trees in the workshop before and after. For some of the participants, this was their first workshop.
It’s been hard to post this week! Between my computer deciding that it no longer wants to talk to anything via usb, including my camera, and my hosting of a club event, I have been frustrated.
So, here I sit on my laptop, which I hate using, trying to add some photos for your viewing. Only a few snaps from the school, plenty of video recorded but I’m unable to transfer it at the moment. Here are some shots of my garage and driveway full of club folk soaking up the bonsai vibe. Peter Snart is also captured in full flow, and dear love him he struggled through two days with a nasty cough and splutter.
Paul would kill me if I didn’t post this flyer at some point. Thought I’d get it up early 🙂
A great video I watched over on the Capital Bonsai Blog with Ryan Neil talking about pines. A very interesting approach and an easy explaination about why you do it this way or that. Well, not that easy, I had to watch it twice 🙂 It never does any harm to refresh the memory.
Peter is busy packing the van for his trip over for the NIBS/Willowbog Bonsai School, I’m busy getting ready for his arrival 😀
As my attempts at finding the right shape of pot for this Black Pine failed so badly yesterday, I have tried a few more.
These first two were pot suggestions are by Xavier. When he sent me the pot photos yesterday, I preferred the first one shown. But now that I have added the tree, I prefer the second one. The colour isn’t right but it’s hard to get this just right in a ‘cut and shut’ job like I’ve just done.
These are further ones I’m trying myself.
I like this one but I think I’ve made the pot a bit too small.
I tried this one, a little too ornate but nice all the same. Colour not right either.
This is my favourite one. A primitive pot that I feel suits the age shown in the bark of the tree.
None are quite right but it’s an interesting exercise that helps assess how a tree will look. I obviously need the practice 🙂
OK, One more tree for pot options 🙂
This is it with it’s new potting angle.
Back into the same pot
or?
or even?
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