Storm damage.

The aftermath of storm Barbara, sounds quite bad but she was not as bad as was forecast.

Chinese Juniper in a Bigei pot just missed the stone dragon, lucky miss.

A small Yew having a lay down.

Another Chinese Juniper on the floor.

Squamata Juniper hanging between the shelves.

Lucky this was all the damage that was done.

Winter images.

A couple of my trees showing their winter images.

Hawthorn group.

Swamp Cypress.

Hopefully it will not be to long until we see new buds starting to show.

Only ten weeks or so!!

Natter night 19th December 2016.

Tonight was the last natter night for 2016 as next Monday is Boxing day and people will have plenty to do without messing about with little trees.

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Once again I was in the studio a little early and got started to wire this Larch.

Wiring almost done 

After tweaking and starting to look quite good.

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Meanwhile Ken M and Boxie removed the wire from this Scots Pine, { yet another of Ken's }

It also had a slight prune.

This tree looks very healthy and has grown a lot this year.

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Next are three trees that belong to Andy P.

A nice Shohin Chinese Elm

A Zelkova.

Acer Palmatum, an air layer from a couple of years ago.

For the last get together of this year it was a very enjoyable night.

To all my visitors and my blog follower's Have a very happy Xmas and a prosperous new year.

A little more work.

Today I did a little more work on my Squamata Juniper, this time on the deadwood at the top of the trunk.

This part had been left thicker to support a guy wire to pull the now apex into an upright position. This has now been achieved, so it was time to thin out this area of the trunk.

After a little more carving and a coating of lime sulpher mixed with some sumo ink to get the same colour and blend it together, it looks a lot better.

Back on the bench with the other trees.

It was getting dark by this time so I had to use the flash.

Bonsai Thursday.

Dave did not come over today as he is tucked up in bed with a dose of the flu, so not any work done to trees today, get well soon Dave.

However my trees are still out on the benches as the weather is still not bad enough to put them away under cover.

The temperature at Two pm.

Another visitor.

I have just had another visit from John R, who pops over now and then to see me and what I have been doing with my Bonsai.

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Here he is with Dave's Larch that was styled last week.

Always nice to see old friends.

Natter night 12th December 2016.

It turned into a very wet night but people still turned up for my natter night, sadly only one tree was brought along to be worked on.

This Cotoneaster brought by Susan G as she did not like some cut off stumps near the base and wanted to know how to deal with them.

This is one of the stumps before working.

The night seemed to turn into a carving lesson for Susan as I showed her how to make the stumps a little more natural.

These two stumps were roughly carved to show her how to make them look better.

I also showed her how to clean up existing deadwood and how to treat with deadwood preserver.

I did manage to do some work on this Larch of mine, which needed the main branch to be pulled closer to the trunk.

With the aid of a guy wire I managed to pull it a lot closer than it was.

All in all a good nights work.