Bonsai Wednesday.

My normal Wednesday Bonsai night with Tony and John resumed tonight, but only Tony brought any trees.

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The two trees Tony brought are the Potentila,s on the bench. So I gave him something to practice on, my Potentila which needed some wire removed.

Number one from Tony.

Number two, I think they will both make nice trees.

My tree before any work.

After the wire was removed and a slight trim.

The view from the other side.

Coming along nicely.

New equipment.

A new piece of equipment for the studio.

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Rise and fall turn table, it also locks to keep the tree in position.

It will be very useful for Ken and make life easier.

I may even get to use it sometime.

Natter night 10th September 2018.

Despite the weather [ it is chucking it down ] there was four visitors turned up for the first Bonsai night since my holiday.

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Graham brought this Taxus, which has grown quite a lot since it was last worked on.

So after a good look at it, Graham started to add some wire.

Meanwhile Ken brought his Juniper group back for yet another good clip out, which he and Boxy set about.

After clipping Ken needed a cup of tea to recover.

Almost there with the Taxus.

Finished for now and looking much neater.

Ken also brought this Picea, which has just been saved from a garden, to see if it would be any good as a Bonsai. Yes it will be when it recovers from the collection process.

The rain tried to dampen the night, but we still had a really good time.

Nice to be with friend's working on Bonsai once more.

Trust.

Just to keep up to date, so that you do not forget the face.

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Maybe I will get a few comments from this post.

Natter night starts again.

Having been away for the last two weeks my natter night is back on tomorrow night, it will be interesting to see how busy it will be, people wanting to get a fix of doing Bonsai once more.

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I wonder if the studio will be this full.

Two weeks to go till the boot sale in Doncaster.

Come have a look at the trees I am selling.

Next project.

I have been working on our next project today, a nice piece of driftwood to be planted.

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The front.

Right side.

Back.

Left side where the roots will be planted.

Looking down.

The proposed tree.

We just need to put them together now.

Bonsai Thursday.

We have just returned from holiday in Portugal to find Autumn is almost here.

At least looking at this Maple, the leaves are starting to change colour.

As are the leaves on my Hawthorn.

Berberis changing as well.

On the other hand this Japanese rose is flowering again.

New flower buds.

Having been in almost 40 degrees a few days ago and now down to about 12 it is a shock to the system.