Mar 26 2014

If you Build it, They will Come!

Further developments for bonsai in Ireland, all good news 🙂

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Mar 26 2014

Soldanella Alba

My only white one but it’s flowering 🙂

Mar 25 2014

Gallery

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Mar 24 2014

Spanish Blog

It’s been a while since I shared another blog with you and I found this one yesterday.

Chian Bonsai

A great active blog showing some nice tree progressions. Even better, he follows me 🙂

Pay him a visit and give him a few hits.

Mar 23 2014

Scots Pine Prep

This is one of the pines collected from a bog two years ago. It has recovered well but now’s the time to remove a few branches that won’t be needed in any final design. I also needed to chase back the foliage so that the tree back buds into more suitable areas over the next few years. Once I have this I can then start to think about styling the tree.

This was the tree being collected

and now before cut back.

A straight bit here needs to be removed.

And after cutting back

Mar 21 2014

Rubbing Shoulders….

… with celebs.

I was at a Gala Evening tonight helping to fund raise for a new charity helping to tackle Human trafficking in Northern Ireland. Ross Kemp very kindy flew over to be out guest speaker for the night. Fair play to the guy, he’s passionate about this subject and did a great job on the night. I was lucky to be in the position to have a pint of the black stuff with him. A good bloke.

Mar 20 2014

Floodgates in the Wind

I had my first walk in 8 weeks on Sunday. I badly sprained my ankle back in January and I’ve not been able to enjoy my usual walks. I decided to give it a go on Sunday and picked the Floodgates in my home town along the edge of Strangford Lough. It was a touch windy but a nice day. I think I over did it with my ankle but I’m glad I went. Note the blackthorn in full flower!