If you are out on the West coast of Ireland and feeling isolated from all things bonsai, then maybe it’s worth making a trip to Bud Garden Centre in Bunratty. Ray, a member of Munster Bonsai Club is starting up regular sessions at the garden centre in an effort to promote bonsai and give a focal point for bonsai in the west. If you read this and are interested, please give him a shout via the number or email listed on the flyer below. Well done Ray for pushing on with bonsai in the West.
A big thank you to the Munster Club guys for having Phil and I down last weekend. It’s taken me to Wednesday to recover enough to post this 🙂
Our usual talk though of the main trees to start.
Mark’s Juniper
Shouldn’t Mark be wiring?
Ray’s Pine
Taking a photo or praying to the bonsai gods?
And he’s the cheek to say I look old :-O
Piotr’s Korean Horbeam starting off on a new path.
Piotr’s Trident getting a new Pot.
until next time……
Well, perhaps not new beginnings as the Munster Bonsai Club will reach it’s 2nd birthday in a few months time, but our visit to Bunratty and Bud Garden Centre was certainly the start of something good. Ray, the co-owner of the Garden Centre is one of the original Club members and has been a keen supporter of all their efforts to drive bonsai forward in Munster. We suggested that Bud Garden Centre, newly opened in March, might be a good location for a workshop, helping to spread the club over the whole Province so at not to become Cork-centric. Ray embraced the idea and Saturday saw us deliver a successful workshop in Bunratty not just to the regulars, but also three new faces. Great to see Steven, Lottie and Harry joining in for the first time. It was a busy session with lots of trees and we also had the public popping in to see what we were doing.
A big thank you to Ray and Andrew, Bud Owners, for making us so welcome, we look forward to another visit soon.
A few photos that capture the venue and the day. Not many of the trees sadly as I didn’t have much time to play with a camera on the day. First up some of the team, sorry to have missed out Lottie and Harry from this one, but it was taken at the end of the day. The others show the day and the amazing location in Bunratty.
This is probably the longest I’ve gone without updating the blog (a whole 10 days!) Life’s been busy.
Today I’m packing up a few trees and accents to take along to a workshop with the Munster Bonsai Club being held tomorrow in Bunratty. A new location for us as we usually end up in the Cork area but we our being hosted by Bud Garden Centre in the beautiful town of Bunratty. This gives folk from the West coast a chance to come along on the day and take part in the workshop or just watch for a while and see what it’s all about.
Looking forward to catching up with the Munster guys and having some craic in the land of Father Ted. Reading this and live nearby? Come join us. I then have The Bonsai Experience to look forward to next weekend!
I’ve been taking the easy option and reblogging Munster Bonsai Clubs posts about the weekend but I do have a few photos of my own that help capture the great day we had. I’ve been back to what has been a hectic few days in work and am still trying to recover from the serious travelling and work that the guys down there had us doing 😉 Anyway, here’s a few of my shots.
… After a great weekend in Cork with the Munster club lads. Didn’t take too many pics as I was rather busy but I will share what I have during the week. In the meantime I’ll just share this one.
Here’s our exploits from the weekend in photos. A great atmosphere for bonsai, fun but hard work getting done as well.
Just a quick thank you to the Munster Bonsai Club guys for a great weekend, it was special 🙂
Especial thanks to Mark and Valerie for putting us up for the weekend and to Piotr for organising everything. I’ll post more when I get a chance but for now you can just look at our ugly mugs.
Club night tonight and then off to County Cork with Phil to run a workshop weekend with the Munster Club guys. Craic to be had 🙂
Not a pretty sight but here’s myself, Piotr and Owen, the three chairmen of the three clubs together at the NI Bonsai Society School over the weekend. Maybe early days to call Owen a Chairman to be honest but he’s the one who took the plunge and has the first meeting set up for 27th June in Balbriggan.
We had three with us from the new Leinster Bonsai Club, Owen, Elisabeth and John. They got a little taste of the benefits of being a sister club to the NIBS.
I know I harp on about it at times but friendship is a big part of bonsai for me and it’s great to get this new club link rolling.
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