Jul 5 2013

Mike’s Satsuki & Juniper

Waz Skeepin we me ole Mucker Mike tuther neet [Sorry, but Mike said I had to type the way he would actually say it, that’s wat he does 🙂 ]

Great screen shot Mike lol, didn’t know I did that did you 😛

Enough of that, I was chatting to Mike on Skype the other night about his workshop weekend with Peter Warren and he was showing me some photos of his Root over Rock Satsuki which I rather like, As he’s such a decent bloke, he said I could share here. Also another little Satuki getting it’s first clear out and a Kishu Juniper as well.

March 2012

17 June 2013

28 June 2013

After Peter Warren Workshop

Stumpy Satuki before workshop

and after

March 2012

Kishu Juniper also from Workshop

Jul 4 2013

Ed’s Garden

Last week I popped into see a new club member Ed. It was a shocking day with constant rain but we still managed to get a look aroung his garden and his growing collection of bonsai. Ed’s only been doing bonsai for about a year and has a mixture of bought trees and raw material that he’s practicing on to gain skill.

Main Bench

His first tree

Cotoneaster

Stewartia

Trident Maple

Jade

Hornbeam

Larch Group

Shohin Juniper before I altered it.

and after

Hawthorn

Kashima Maple

Satsuki Azalea

Overview

Jul 3 2013

He’s Back!!!

Just when you thought it was safe to walk the streets……

And they’re back too 🙂

Checking on how the trees did while he was in Japan

Hawthorn

Shohin Elm

Trident Maple

nice base

stamp

and signed

Loved this sedum in the garden too

Jun 25 2013

Better View

I was sorting out a little path that leads to my display benches in the garden a few days ago and I decided to remove a gate and trellis to allow for a better view as you enter the area. I was amazed at just how much better it looks now instead of the trees being caged away!

Jun 23 2013

Image

Phil’s Visit to Shohin Nursery Koju-en

Jun 23 2013

Pot Virtual for Michael

As promised Michael, neither pot is ideal but it shows the improvement.

Jun 21 2013

The Rest

A few other ones from Saturdays session. Not all of them, I missed a few.

Ian B’s Maple

Michael’s Juniper

Michael’s Hawthorn photographed for a pot virtual. Give it a go, you know you want to 🙂

Jun 20 2013

Elm Forest Trimming

My team of slaves busily working away. I forgot to get a before shot, probably due to the weight of the flippin thing.

Jun 19 2013

Root Over Rock Juniper

Another one of Stephen’s brought on Saturday. This one a Common Juniper. We wanted to make a few changes to the longer branch cascading down over the rock. The over all image was not that exciting at this point.

You’ll also see Stephen here frantically weeding before I got the camera out, or so he thought 🙂

This is it after a shortening of that branch and a general thinning out. However the cascading branch visually looks as if it goes towards the back and the left hand side of the tree looks very flat.

This is the tree rotated slightly which improves the image for me, however the shape of the rock means that it would never fit in the pot at that angle.

Therefore we wired the cascading branch more to the front and also added a guy line that pulls the apex round to a better position, therefore creating the same image without the rotation.

We failed to get a photo after we added a little Cotoneaster to the bottom left of the rock. Next step will be a full wiring, but not now 🙂

Jun 18 2013

Maple Defoliation

Stephen came down to my place on Saturday to get his Maple sorted. The canopy was extremely full and the inner branches would start to suffer unless we did a partial defoliation. This was it before we started.