One of the chaps posted a link to this on the European Bonsai Forum. I have never heard of it before but it’s worth a look.
The latest issue is in English. As far as the rest go, I’ll just be looking at the pictures!
Click on the photo to view all the magazines.
My go to guy for good photos is Hugh from the club. Recently converted to bonsai, Hugh has been scouring his back catalogue of photos looking for inspiration. He came across these two from a trip to America a few years back. I think he said they were taken at the Grand Canyon, I may be wrong!
I decided it was time to repot the little Cork Bark Elm I got last year. Problem was, I wanted to plant it into a pot already occupied by another one. I decided to transfer the Original Elm into a different pot and then do a proper repot on the new one. Here’s the photos.
The new Elm in a plastic pot.
Plenty of roots to sort out.
The original Elm in the pot I want.
This is it moved into a different pot.
New Elm into the Walsall Pot. Slightly more trunk line uncovered.
and side by side with a golf ball for scale.
Michael brought along a few trees on Saturday to repot and a bag of biscuits too, top bloke 🙂
This little Japanese White Pine was over due a repot and was growing in very compacted akadama. It got a new pot that was a more suitable colour than the original cream one. Original post about this tree HERE
This Cedar also got a repot.
The jin in the middle of the shari is an add on but very well done.
Last up from Michael was this Scots Pine.
A productive afternoon.
This morning we walked from Ballyholme in Bangor to Orlock Point. This is the next part of the coast line past were we normally walk. Here’s a map.
Compared to the Baltic weather experienced in my garage last weekend, today was actually very mild indeed.
Plenty of flowers appearing early
Groomsport
Lookout at Orlock
Ivy creeping up a rock face
Dry stone wall
My two dogs making some pigeons take to the wing 🙂
Stephen finds something to photograph
I follow suit
The finish line
My two older brothers lagging behind 😉
I had hoped to repot this last Sunday but ran out of time. A week later it has opened further and I had to get it done today. Stephen and Michael came over to my place and did a little repotting of their own. Stephen was able to help me man handle the Trident as the rock made it rather hard to work with.
This was it before we started.
As you can see the rock over hangs the pot and I wanted to incorporate the rock within the pot this time around. I bought a nice Walsall Ceramic pot for it last week from Willowbog Bonsai.
When I removed the Tree from the pot I was able to see how it had been wired in last time. I decided that I was probably best to follow a similar process this time too.
I pulled out two wedges from the mix that had been used to get the tree sitting at the right angle and position.
This is it after root pruning and washing out.
I prepared the new pot with wooden supports for the tree and to aid the tying in of the tree.
Once we got it potted up, it got a good watering in. The mix is akadama and kyodama.
This is the final image. I much prefer the new look and am delighted with the pot too. It’s at a slighted different angle and rotation in the pot.
Side by side before and after.
I’ll be going back over some of the trees worked on individually but in the mean time here’s another gallery for you to see the action.
It was a long day, workshop started at 10am and I think we sat down in front of an open fire at 8.15 pm.
I was seriously considering not posting at all to day but I can’t let a good run end so easily 🙂
Just spend a very busy 2 days hosting our Club Bonsai School and Workshop with Willowbog Bonsai. I’m shattered now and Peter is already away to bed. One of the main reasons was the wiring of Hugh’s Scots Pine. Phil helped a little with it on the day 😉
Before
After
I checked most of my trees last Sunday and didn’t see many signs of Spring. Then, 4 days later, I checked again. This was what I found on Thursday!
These are fast swelling flower buds on a Fuji Cherry.
These are Trident Maple buds, 3 different trees.
I even saw a cloud of midges outside our lounge window! February? What’s going on!!
I eventually got around to taking a few snaps of this Cork Bark Elm yesterday.
I’m trying to keep a decent record of it through the years to capture how the ramification improves.
It’s field grown tree and this is now it’s 3rd year in a pot from collection.
Grown from a cutting, it’s taken 11 years to get it to this point.
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