Natter night 3rd October 2016.

After what has been a beautiful sunny day we could feel the cold nip in the air tonight, but the atmosphere was still warm and pleasant .

This photo of the garden taken this afternoon shows how the colours of some trees are starting to change.

This Potentilla has finally stopped flowering so at last I could give it a clip to compact it a little.

After clipping.

Boxie is back from his long weekend in Ireland, it only lasted two weeks.

Yet another photo of Dave's Juniper in the bogwood.

A present from Ireland brought back for me by Boxie, Thanks Mike.

I am sure there is a face in it.

Autumn 2016.

The first day of October and Autumn has arrived here in the north of England.

As usual the Hawthorn's are the first to show the colours of Autumn.

My Hawthorn group.

The colour of this one is really good.

Virginia creeper beautiful colour.

Don't you just love this time of year ?

Bonsai Thursday update.

A quick update on my post of yesterday.

This is what you can do with a cheap tree and an old piece of bogwood.

The bogwood.

The tree.

Sometimes I wonder where the ideas come from.

Bonsai Thursday with Dave.

I am really enjoying my Thursday's with Dave in the studio, it reminds me of the old days when I had just started my Bonsai journey, The only thing now is Dave has a problem putting wire on trees, so I do most of the wiring, but we still discuss how we are going to style the tree we are working on.

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Dave had been visiting a garden center and came across this Juniper and thought it would plant in his piece of bogwood, which featured on here a while back, I agreed with him so we got started to see if it would work.

The label says it is good for Bonsai .

The price was right.

Planted and tied in, it looks about the right size.

About half way through wiring and starting to take shape.

Finished for now.

  It will now be left to recover and treated with tender loving care for a while.

A really good couple of hours work.

Workshop with Robert Porch.

I have at the moment four of Ken's trees here in my garden awaiting the forthcoming workshop with Robert in a couple of weeks time. So I have taken the opportunity to take some photos of them as they are now. 

This first one a Chinese Elm [ cork bark ]

Taxus.

Taxus [ golden yew ]

Triple trunk Chinese Juniper.

All of these trees are looking nice, but I am sure will look even better after the workshop.

Then and now.

I have just come across this photo of an Itoigawa Juniper I have had for quite some time now and I noticed how much it has changed over the years.

How it was after the first styling.

This photo taken this morning. Now in a nice Bigei pot.

Looking very good at the moment.

Natter night 26th Sept 2016.

The rain actually managed to stay away for my natter night, so we were able to look round the garden, instead of me running around bringing trees into the studio.

Andy P brought this Pyracantha to be worked on, it is looking beautiful with all the red berries on.

There were three trees in this group, but Andy wanted at least one of them removed, so the smallest one at the back was taken out. This allowed us to see the bigger tree on it's own and think it will look much better as a single tree.

I decided to do a little work on this Itoigawa Juniper, by thinning out only.

This will allow more light to penetrate to the inside.

While looking round the garden I noticed this Hawthorn was changing into it's Autumn colours.

Which is the first sign that Winter is not far away.

Time to prepare for the cold I think.