Bonsai Thursday.

Another good day with Dave and Boxie, putting the world right and drinking coffee.

The sun even managed to shine after an early morning downpour.

Winter is here, my Maple is almost bare now.

The evergreens still look quite good on the benches.

Watch out for the cold winds over the next couple of days.

Natter night 13th November 2017.

It is either the time of year when nobody works on their trees or it is getting to cold to leave home as it was another quiet night as reguards trees.

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With nothing else to do I removed the wire from this Berberis, which is starting to drop it's leaves and is a nice colour.

Then John G arrived with this nice Chinese juniper to get some idea's on styling.

Now all it needs is quite a lot of wire to be added and the branches put into place.

The selected front view.

The back view.

I also showed John how to clean up the bark, which he got started on.

Birthday prezzie.

A really nice prezzie from my son for my birthday yesterday.

Not only my birthday, but I also retired as well.

So a lot more time to look after my Bonsai now.

Natter night 6th November 2017.

I finally got round to trimming my Boulevard Cypress tonight as there was no trees brought to work on.

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This is the back of the tree, which has been left to grow this season.

Boxie removed the wire from one of my Itoigawa junipers for me. Thanks Mike.

As the weather is getting much colder all of my trees are still out on the benches.

They will be put in their winter home when it starts to rain a lot, as is usual around here.

Boxie brought some pots for Andy P to have a look at for one of his trees.

I like the quotes on the base of two of them.

This one by John Naka.

This one by Marc Noelanders.

Black and White.

I have been playing about with photos today, just to see if black and white are as good as colour.

What do you think?

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These are not my trees, but without colour you can really see the deadwood.

Chinese Juniper's.

Prevention or cure ?

I have always thought prevention is a lot better than trying to cure, so after an attack of caterpillers in the summer, I have just given my Hawthorn a good spray with a weak solution of lime sulpher as a winter wash.

This should prevent any bugs surviving the winter in the cracks of the bark.

Fingers crossed.

Bonsai Thursday.

I had another busy day when Dave came over today, after the initial coffee, we had a look at this Maple and decided to do a bit of pruning.

Having been collected at the start of the year, it has just been left to recover, now was the time to select some branches for removal.

The tree looks quite bare but is now well on it's way to becoming a nice image.

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When Boxie arrived he did some more work on his Spruce, another coat of wood hardner, which seems to be doing a very good job on the rotten wood that was in the base of the trunk.

The emergency repot, that we did a few weeks back, also seems to have done the trick as already we can see the buds for next year starting to swell.

Fingers crossed it continues to recover.