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Don Valley Expo 2008

Stymie — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:41:20 GMT

I don't know where my original post got to so here we are again.

This was the early morning set-up of the club display. I'll add to it with a few individual trees that caught my eye when I've processed them.

Natural inspiration

Stymie — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:14:52 GMT

Get it into a pot.

my prize for winning the draw...

johnbaz — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:03:25 GMT

hi all

a few months ago there was a draw at our club, the prize being a £50 voucher to spend at derbyshire bonsai centre.
i was lucky enough to win it:w00t:
now, for fifty quid, you don't get much and this deshojo maple has one sided branching and a two root nebari but there was just something about it (dunno what it is though:blink:)
i went with a hundred pounds in my pocket to get a nicer tree but this one was exactly fifty pounds and i couldn't see anything that took my fancy for upto £150.

the one-sided deshojo:P
[img]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y116/johnbaz/bonsaideshojoSmall.jpg[/img]

the maples are my favourite deciduous trees:cool:

john:)

btw, forgot to say, it stands about 22" tall or thereabouts;)

another acer

RoyH — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:04:48 GMT

just testing the easy way to upload pictures: -

and it worked, thanks Daryl, another of my acers, which as you can see is a poor picture against a white background. Taken last year, so i hope to improve the on this picture this summer. I dont know what the variety is either.

New Growth

Kath — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:12:24 GMT

Yes I know what you're going to say, "She needs to get the scissors and do a bit of thinning out" but you see this is what happens when you go away on holiday :):):):):)

I'm still playing 'catch-up', and the trellis needs a coat of wood preservative too, but I'm getting there :hehe:

Acer group planting

Acer Bloodgood

Acer Shishi Gasira

Acer Deshojo

Larch

Demonstration tree

Stymie — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:06:49 GMT

This is the monster that I dug up last month to use for the club demo. in May. It has been reduced somewhat as can be seen but its going to be fun carving the deadwood. One branch only has been retained for the live part. This will be bent back over the base of the tree, thinned out and styled.

my collection

stevefordtough — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:05:27 GMT

hi everyone. just posting some of my trees maybe get some advice. i have a scots pine recently aquired last year, jack pine just dug from ground about 1 month ago, 2 cedars, well not true cedars. hope they are worth checking out. will be piosting in another category later for to be critiqued.

thanks

steve

Never throw anything away :-)

Kath — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:32:36 GMT

Several months ago I accidently broke a stem off of this Acacia 'Dealbata'

Planted the broken stem into a 3 inch flower pot, kept it moist and out of the sun, still a baby, but here it is now:)

Colour

Stymie — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:24:57 GMT

Has this enough colour for you?

Hornbeam

Kath — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:36:11 GMT

From this in May

to now in September, will concentrate on the apex next year :)

Some more babies :-)

Kath — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:55:22 GMT

Acacia

Cotoneaster

Ginkgo

Juniperus rigida

Stymie — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:42:06 GMT

It's a little cascade that I've been tweaking. Almost as much wire as wood at the moment. Progressing.

unwanted apple tree

RoyH — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:00:16 GMT

this apple tree was bound for the skip, so i thought it was worth saving, lots to do yet, but its getting there. it was lifted last april "07"

thoughts good or bad always welcome.

Sum lickle tweez.

Stymie — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:23:55 GMT

Lonicera

Junis

Jacqueline Hillier

JBP

Another Paul's scarlet

Ligustrum

Herbs for bonsai?

Stymie — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:58:38 GMT

This is Lucerne.

Oooooh what beauties

Kath — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:43:43 GMT

At least the rain held off today until 4pm. Spent a few enjoyable hours at our nearest bonsai nursery with Pippa (dil) and Asha and Emmy (grand daughters)

No, I didn't buy this one :)

But I did buy this nice Hornbeam :), will work on it soon.

A few more from the nursery garden

Sadness and joy

Kath — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:28:36 GMT

Three weeks ago a dear 'fuchsia' friend sadly passed away, she and her husband also having been fuchsia bonsai enthusiasts.

I feel very privileged and it gives me great joy to have been asked to care further for the fuchsia bonsai below.

I first worked on the large specimen at the back of the above photo, 'Little Jewel' who is 22 years old. I cleaned all the moss and star plant from the top and gave the surface roots a good brush with a hard toothbrush. At this stage I have only trimmed the top slightly, as flower buds are appearing, so will continue further with this later in the season after flowering has finished.

It is now in a larger temporary pot to recover from the cleaning, a little root pruning, and repotting. I am going to visit our local bonsai nursery next Thursday,

http://www.greenlawnsbonsai.co.uk/

am sure I can find a more suitable pot.

Variety

Stymie — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:08:18 GMT

It is usual to have only one kind of tree in a multiple planting but it is sometimes possible to mix them.

Flowering Quince

Grimlea — Sat, 12 May 2007 05:22:54 GMT

A 9yr old. mame, Flowering Quince done in the Chinese Horai style.

Styling a Cedrus brevifolia/ Cyprus Cedar

chromeheart — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:36:08 GMT

Hi all!!! I got a 26 year old Cedrus brevifolia/ Cyprus Cedar. I purchased it from due to the tree's health. The owner wasn't in good condition to look after the tree. I got it for GBP35. He had a more than a thousand trees but this was one and only of its kind variety in his garden. I didn't have the courage to style it so I had it in my garden untouched. Then Wessex Bonsai invited Peter Adams for a styling session in the club on 8th April 2008.I took the tree in and he gave me some tips on styling and drew a rough sketch of what I might want to achieve after styling and after a few years time. I agree with his suggestion and had put my sleeves up and gave the tree a hair cut. Will give it a months to recover and will wire it on late autumn. Will start jinning/sharis next year.

What do you guys think? Would want more suggestions on shaping the branches. I'm not experienced with styling cedars. Is it fairly the same as Pines??? Do you achieve needle clouding by wiring it like how what you do with pines?

Escallonia

Stymie — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:57:56 GMT

Its finished flowering for this year and has been potted for the first time today.

Sumo style

Stymie — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:05:57 GMT

Its a fairly severe Sumo Cydonia (flowering quince) fresh out of the washing bowl where it has been developed. I hadn't thought about a pot but this seems to reflect the squat trunk. Sorry about the pattern.

[img]http://forums.bonsaigarden.net/Attachment129.aspx[/img]

Yes, the part where I took the moss off is also solid trunk.

There are oceans of flower buds on it, I removed around 2/5ths of the branches as I re-potted it.

Three more Chinese elms

christianne — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:35:37 GMT

Another three of my Chinese elms

[img]http://forums.bonsaigarden.net/Attachment48.aspx[/img]

60 cm

[img]http://forums.bonsaigarden.net/Attachment49.aspx[/img]

15cm

[img]http://forums.bonsaigarden.net/Attachment50.aspx[/img]

25cm

two of my acers

RoyH — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:27:56 GMT

here are pictures of two of my acers

i dont know what variety they are, all i can add is that the top tree is around 22" tall from the top of the pot & the bottom tree is around 33" from the top of the pot

[img]http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj122/yorky_2008/acera.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj122/yorky_2008/acer2-6-06resize.jpg[/img]

Cedrus atlantica glauca

Stymie — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:31:20 GMT

Pruned a bit and re-potted.

Willowbog British Shohin association

keithmart — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:55:25 GMT

I returned from willobog about 4.00 today. There were some nice trees there, but whether it was worth the 3 hour drive and £40.00 petrol I would doubt.

It was a long way to go.

We were made welcome and my wife was helped with her buggy, but was unable to use it inside the exhibition as there was not enough room to manoevour.

If you would like to see some pictures download the file from here, click on the exe file, sit back and you will see all. (I hope!)

http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/1045367_ahem9/bsa2008.exe

Pine Grown from Seed

Tuppence — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:55:35 GMT

This is one of the three pines I have that I grew from seed. They've been in the garden for a couple of years and I dug up this one and potted it the other day. I don't know what variety is it. :)

[img]http://forums.bonsaigarden.net/Attachment173.aspx[/img]

lonicera nitida

keithmart — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:43:32 GMT

I have just repotted this little shohin in a pot that I have had for some years, and cannot remember where it came from.

I think when it thickens out a bit it will make a nice windswept.

Thanks Don for giving it to me last summer, I have finally done something with it!

Quercus robur twin trunk

Carol — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:54:32 GMT

A recent acquisition - a 12 year old oak - twin trunk - needs a bit of work.

Also to try my hand at posting a picture!:D

EUREKA!!!:w00t: You're such a good teacher, Stymie!;)

[img]http://forums.bonsaigarden.net/Attachment150.aspx[/img]

Cheers

Carol

Crataegus (Paul's Scarlet) in its first new pot.

Stymie — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:26:58 GMT

I hope that I haven't pruned away too many flower buds.

What do you think of the pot?

Yew

Stymie — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:23:36 GMT

Taxus baccata re-potted today.

[img]http://forums.bonsaigarden.net/Attachment130.aspx[/img]

FUCHSIA SPECIES SNOWBURNER

topiaryjoe — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:15:51 GMT

THIS STANDARD HAS BEEN TRAINED FOR ABOUT 3 YEARS UP THIS OLD DEAD WOOD TRUNK.

IT STANDS AT 60CM AND IS POTTED IN A 30CM GLAZED UK BONSAI POT. THIS PHOTO WAS TAKE IN EARLY SUMMER 07 ,AND I DID NOT DO MANY STOPS AS I JUST LOVE THE FLOWERS SO MUCH I DIDN'T LEAVE A LARGE ENOUGH CROWN TO FORM. THIS YEAR I'M GOING TO DO AT LEASE 8 STOP TO GET EVEN MORE FLOWERS .I WILL KEEP YOU INFORMED SOMETIME MIDSUMMER.

YOUR COMMENTS ARE MOST WELCOME.

a chinese elm from morrisons...

johnbaz — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:21:51 GMT

hello all

i'm going to have a go at posting a pic, i never managed it on the old site:blush:
anyhow, this little tree, i bought whilst walking around morrisons (supermarket) with the wife...
they had quiet a few but this was the nicest (looks a little rough in this pic as i'd just attacked it with the scissors:D
the tree has been out through winter, the leaves didn't drop just went discoloured but now it's covered in new clusters of bright green growth and has really filled out with foliage since this pic...
[img]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y116/johnbaz/bonsaichineseelmsheffsomethingoroth.jpg[/img]

i'll take a pic tomorrow showing the new growth...

john:)

hello keith

here's what the tree looks like now (almost identical), i've gotten rid of the branch on the right that was going skywards...
i will be re-potting very shortly and was actually going to bind those sticky-out roots to the others with raffia so they don't stick out so much...
it will be going into a nicer dish (i have a good selection!)
here's the tree with loads of new leaves forming..
[img]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y116/johnbaz/PICT8319.jpg[/img]

john:)

ps, thanks for the advice;)

Phoenix graft

Stymie — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:58:52 GMT

Jim will like these Chinese Junis clinging to the dead stuff.[img]http://forums.bonsaigarden.net/Attachment152.aspx[/img]

Quiz

Stymie — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:20:01 GMT

Overhead shot.

I know what it is. Do you?

[img]http://forums.bonsaigarden.net/Attachment149.aspx[/img]

Chinese Elm

Carol — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:41:26 GMT

I bought this U. parvifolia last winter - leafless, and described as a windswept style, which technically, it's not! After some discussion elsewhere, I decided to wait until it leafed out to decide what to do with it, i.e. prune into a true windswept, or leave it as is. Now that it's "dressed" I've decided to rename it an informal upright, and leave it as is. It's not as lush as I might like, BUT it's been subject to the full, unprotected elements we've had over summer - high 40s/low50sC, water restrictions, minimal rain. It's been a bit of an experiment - once it seemed to be tolerating the conditions, I decided to monitor it closely but leave it out to see how it would go. I've been surprised at how it's coped. It won't have to do so again next summer - Warren's almost finished my new shaded area which will accommodate all my trees - hopefully!!

I've attached a picture of the tree as bought for reference. Not sure if they're going to be visible!

OK - they're not - how do I post them so they don't need to be downloaded? Width is 400 pixels - is that too wide?

Cheers

Carol

[img]http://forums.bonsaigarden.net/Attachment142.aspx[/img]

[img]http://forums.bonsaigarden.net/Attachment143.aspx[/img]

Mixed group

Stymie — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:22:51 GMT

With a further experiment in mind, I popped these in together this morning. Two Chamaes on the left and three blue Junis to the right.

I know that they say don't mix them but I've done it again. A bit more finger and thumb pinching will help further. The container measures 24" X 14" (61cm X 35.5cm)

[img]http://forums.bonsaigarden.net/Attachment123.aspx[/img]

Fuchsia

Kath — Wed, 09 May 2007 22:31:38 GMT

One of my favourites

[img]http://forums.bonsaigarden.net/Attachment2.aspx[/img]

nice fall colours

johnbaz — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:29:11 GMT

hello all

i bought a very nice ladies collection as she was moving to france, this maple was among them, this was about two years ago, as usual, i attacked it with the scissors, i think i will just pinch it this year as i tend to get carried away with tools:blush:

[img]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y116/johnbaz/BONSAIMAPLEFALLCOLOUR.jpg[/img]

i love the colours of the maples in autumn:cool:

john:)

Acer buergerianum

Stymie — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:55:09 GMT

My Trident showing good recovery after last year's drastic cut backs.[img]http://forums.bonsaigarden.net/Attachment72.aspx[/img]