Natter night agenda.

On the agenda for my natter night tomorrow 26th November is a wiring and styling of this Beech tree.

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As you can see it is still holding on to it's leaves from last season.

Hopefully we can improve the image a little.

Look into my blog to find out how it turns out.

A day out.

Today I had a day out with a new to Bonsai guy called Carl M from not to far away from where I live.

It was an introduction into our world of this passion to play with small trees.

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First stop on our way up to visit Robert Porch in Glasgow, was to this place for breakfast.

What a good meal to keep us going all day.

Carl being given the tour of Robert's garden.

Being new to Bonsai he has now got off to a good start, with three trees, a pot, some wire and some tools.

I got my eye on these pots but resisted the urge to buy.

I did however succumb to this nice Larch.

It was nice to meet such a good guy and spend the day up in Bonnie Scotland with him.

I am looking forward to helping him on his journey into our Bonsai world.

Driftwood update.

A bit more done on the driftwood I have been working on.

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Pleased with it so far.

Driftwood work.

I have been doing some more work on the piece of driftwood I started yesterday.

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Fixed to a bit of slate and first coat of lime sulpher.

Bonsai Thursday with Dave.

When Dave came today he brought some pieces of driftwood for us to work with.

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You may well ask what you can do with bits of wood, but after a good look at all the pieces we decided to set the idea of a Tanuki into action.

This is the one we chose.

A good bit of work later and we have made a reasonable start, by splitting and twisting.

It will need a lot more work done before we chose an appropriate tree for it.

We will also need to find a pot that matches the image we have in mind.

Birthday prezzie.

My birthday prezzie from my son finally arrived, just in time as it is quite cold tonight.

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Thank you Andrew.

Bonsai Wednesday.

John brought another of Andy's trees tonight for me to work on.

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This small Larch planted on slate, the compost was held in place with some plastic mesh, but was not secured very well.

So I drilled some holes through the slate so it could be fixed more securely.

I then rewired the tree then gave it a basic styling.

Still need a fair bit of work, but enough for now.

As always one final tweak.

My thanks to Tony for taking the photos.