A short video.

A walk round my Bonsai today.

Hope everyone enjoys.

A day at Ken's.

Today Boxie and myself had a day out at Ken's home, to do some work for him.

Not Bonsai, but Bonsai related, sort of !

The first job was to install a water feature he had bought.

We started by pulling back the stones and cutting the membrane, then to dig a hole for the water tank.The big black thing behind Mike.

Up to our eyeballs in muck, but we still found time to enjoy the banter.

The water feature does not look a lot, just a bowl in the gravel, but looked very nice when connected up and running.

The next job was to erect a stone bench, I caught Ken checking it was level.

We also moved his balancing stones and a stone lantern.

Just some plants to put in now. Note the balancing stones on the far right.

Ken was very pleased with the new look,

Natter night 12th June 2017.

My day started early again, when John R came over about lunch time with one of his Hawthorn.

The front view before work.

After a clip and wiring it looks much better.

The back view before work.

After working.

This small Larch had a little work done, Margery was pleased with the outcome.

Another Hawthorn, this time Ken's, had a good clip out.

A good job done Ken.

This Juniper, on the left, was repotted a few months ago and given a new planting angle in the cascade style.

It belong's to Paul M, who started to wire it ready for it's new look.

After wiring and styling it is now on it's way to becoming a nice tree.

There was one person who had nothing to do but play with wire.

Guess who?

We all had a very enjoyable night once more.

Another one done.

I have just planted up this bogwood / slate with a Japanese Rose.

Bogwood > Slate, more work.

On a very wet Saturday morning what can you do except work in the studio.

So I did a little more work on the latest bogwood / slate project.

The dirty part adding the Keto.

All round, to stop the compost from escaping through the gaps.

A little deadwood preserver on the lighter parts, just to darken it a bit.

The next thing to do is decide on a tree and add moss to the Keto.

Bogwood / Slate update.

I have managed to cut the piece of slate for this project and fixed the bogwood to it today.

It should be solid by tomorrow.

Drain holes also drilled.

Bonsai Thursday with Dave.

The day started off quite good when I looked at the time it was 6.45 , which for me is a good lie in, I must have needed the sleep.

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Then while making my coffee I spotted these two Gold Finches on the feeder.

The weather on the other hand was dismal, but it makes the trees look good.

While waiting for Dave to arrive I got a little bored so I tried some balancing stones.

I then got this piece of slate in to dry out and started to  dry it with a small blow torch and discovered I can draw.

The only trouble is it totally dried and disappeared.

Today's project with Dave, another piece of Bogwood and slate to be brought together.

But as the weather was very bad, I could not shape the slate, but as soon as it dries up it will be done.

I then started to put this post on my blog, when the postman came with a prezzie from that nice man Ben Mcnulty.

A nice pot for my collection.

Really nice pot Ben thanks once again.