Parts 3 & 4 in the Peter Warren Tree Critique series from my club’s October meeting.
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Peter Warren Day 4
Well, there wasn’t really a day 4, it was the day Peter flew home, but we did manage to pop down to Stephen’s House [bonsai Baker] for a look around.
Check out the colour on his Arakawa Maple. The colour had even deepened from the Friday night meeting.
Saturday’s Workshop In Photos
Only getting around to uploading the weekends Photos.
This Gallery is from the Saturday workshop with Peter Warren and shows the action as well as many of the trees before during and after. Participants were a mixture of beginners and hardcore members with a variety of trees both raw and established. If I had time I’d add some text explaining what’s going on but to be honest I’m absolutely shattered!!
I think we can safety say that the weekend was a success and Peter is most definitely worth having along for a workshop.
House Guest
Peter Warren arrives in Northern Ireland for the first time today, and I have the pleasure of having him as a house guest until Monday.
He’ll be doing a talk/tree critique at the club tonight for the members and then my garage will be put to full use on Saturday and Sunday with workshops. The camera will be out as usual and so will the camcorder. I’m sure he will be on his best behaviour 😉
I’ll endeavour to keep the blog up-to-date with the goings on, but as you can imagine, it’ll be a busy few days for me to. As I know my wife will read this, I just want to thank her for putting up with all these hairy-arsed bonsai folk appearing in the house, not you Peter, I’m sure yours is peachy 😆
Peter working hard. hope he’s not expecting material like that here!!
Club Night
Last night was club night, it was great to see a great turn out after the Summer break. Especially with many of them being brand new faces 🙂
Many of the new members are beginners. I always wonder who will follow through and become as possessed about bonsai as I am!!
Rose Show
I had the pleasure of judging the bonsai entries at the Rose Show in Belfast yesterday. I small local flower show held as part of the bigger Rose Week event at Sir Thomas and Lady Dixon Park.
The bonsai aspect was small, our club supports the Rose Society by always getting a few entries in to fill the space and add interest for the public. As far as bonsai go, it’s not what we aspire too in our own displays with the usual low tables and cramped space. For that reason and the poor photos that resulted from inside a marquee, I’ll not bombard you with poor quality photos. I will however share some photos taken from within the park itself showing both the roses and some nice trees.
First, photos from inside the flower show marquee during judging. The rest from within the park Rose Gardens and Japanese Garden. When I show the Rose name it’s because is a highly perfumes variety that my wife is determined to add to our garden.
Shohin Satsuki
I have this lovely little Satsuki at the moment. It belongs to Bertie, one of our club members who exhibited it at our recent exhibition. I have it until he returns from holiday. I couldn’t resist a photo in flower.
Exhibition Gallery
I’m pretty sure I can’t be ar$ed putting all the photos from the Exhibition on here as well as the club site. So here is a link to the gallery, just click on the photo to visit.
Long Day
It’s been a long day at our club exhibition. Met some great people, caught up with some old friends and spent time with a great bunch of chaps, even those who give me abuse about blogging! 🙂
It was a wet day but by mid afternoon we had a pretty good crowd moving through the marquee. Some other other interesting events taking place too. This was my first time watching a Pig Race!
Some great looking Beagles
The pig race, Makin Bacon won!
The gardens
The gold star of the day goes to John who stood out in the rain under a tree passing out cards and getting folk to venture into the marquee to see the trees. A bit of a grim reaper 🙂
Brendan posing
and I have absolutely no idea what these two plonkers are doing!!
Tight Squeeze!
Managed to transport a few trees to the Club exhibition tonight.
All ready for tomorrow.
Hoping to post live from the show tomorrow via mobile, I can only hope that the rain has run out by then!!
Bonsai Eejit 