Accent of the Day – Japanese Horsetail

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Accent of the Day – Hokonechloa macra aureola

and a little fern too

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Stolen Bonsai – Wales

Helping to spread the word, just read on this thread on the European Bonsai Forum that Alex E in Wales has had some trees stolen.

Please keep an eye out for these in the UK and I hope whoever has them sees this post and realises that 200 – 300 bonsai people from the UK read this blog every day. We are watching! Hope you get caught ❗

If I hear any more I’ll update, or if you know any more, give me a shout and I’ll add it.

Update: Trees actually stolen from a show! Here is a few words from Alex taken from this Thread on IBC.Please also keep an eye out for the others mentioned.

“all the trees were stolen from a Marquee at the Bridgend County Show 13TH/14TH July
picture quality of the White pine is not good but its the only one I have & it belongs to Ron, a member
the Cardiff club although it is featured in the Bonsai Wales 2012 book, other trees stolen were ………
Southern Beech, Triple trunk Maple,
Semi cascade Larch in a crescent Mo pot,
Literati Larch very distinctive 8″ jin top in a China Mist round pot
Mame Cottoneaster with a chinese pot,the culprits even had the audacity to take the stands they were
on:evil: 

Any information please contact me on 07969629466″

Alex e

Here are the trees:

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Accent of the Day – Fern

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No More Room at the Inn

Every Summer I look after a collection of bonsai for a friend while he going on holiday to visit family in the South of England. This year saw him downsize to a smaller car which therefore added a few extra runs to his delivery trips to my place. A few of the trees were just too big for his car and I had to pop over and collect the remaining few from him. Some of the really big ones are staying at home under the care of his son who he trusts enough to look after them.

This has resulted in my benches being full to capacity, or even to a point well past that. As you will see in the gallery below, I have crammed my benches and this is only some of them as the rest are in another area. I hope to get time to photograph some of these properly before he returns and share them here with you.

Accent of the Day – Sedum

In a now collector’s Item Stone Monkey pot.

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Accent of the Day – Birdsfoot Trefoil

This is the one I posted a few weeks back and I was told by Ray that it might be a Birdsfoot Trefoil. No I said, I don’t think it is. Well, I think Ray was right 🙂 Just flowered yellow and the flower shape matches perfectly.

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Korean Hornbeam Trim

Stephen’s Hornbeam getting a trim last weekend. This one used to be mine, kinda wish I had held onto it now 🙂 And yes, it’s going into a more appropriate pot in the Spring.

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Accent of the Day – Geranium

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The Young Ones

My display benches have become a playground for some newly hatched birds over the last week. A young blackbird awaits it’s Mum on my pots while two young Robins fight each other for the right to sit on my trees. All very entertaining 🙂 If I could only manage to get the camera out quick enough to capture the little Wren that does a patrol of my trees each day looking for greenfly.