1 to 1 with Bonsai Eejit – The Eejit Pine
Sally's Bridge Bonsai
by Ray
3y ago
This bog pine started life with me around 4 years ago. It was collected from a peat bog and planted into a crate with stone grit. Although the tree has always grown well it was time to repot. The tree got it’s first styling from Ian Young in September 2017, hence the name. It continued to thrive during 2018 and needed bit of editing in autumn 2018. Although it looks harsh in the pictures the tree is packed with buds. Again, the re-pot was very successful with no nasty surprises. It went straight to the tunnel like the rest for protection over winter/spring ..read more
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1 to 1 with Bonsai Eejit – PW Bog Pine
Sally's Bridge Bonsai
by Ray
3y ago
This tree was unstyled until a Peter Warren workshop in late 2016. The initial focus suggestion by Peter was to style one or two branches but mainly to strengthen the lower right hand branch, the main feature branch. During a workshop one year later, again with Peter, some bud selection and light pruning was carried out and the tree continued to look good over the autumn. When we removed the tree from the pot, we discovered a good but extended root system. Again the roots were minimally pruned where appropriate. The pot used is quite deep but this was necessary to accommodate all the roots a ..read more
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1 to 1 with Bonsai Eejit – Large Hinoki
Sally's Bridge Bonsai
by Ray
3y ago
During a two day session with Ian Young, we worked through a few repottings that I would have found challenging alone. The first was a Hinoki Cypress (Chaemecyparis obstusa ‘Nana Gracilis’) styled about a year previous. It originally was a nursery tree with a lot of crossing and looping roots which had been partially unraveled in a previous re-pot. Un-typically for a conifer a hose was used to remove grit, peat and field soil to allow us untangle the roosts. Many roots were shortened where possible, a few removed but despite reducing the apparent bulk of the root ball we managed to retain a ..read more
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NIBS Peter Warren Workshop November 2018
Sally's Bridge Bonsai
by Ray
3y ago
I was very fortunate to grab a last minute place on this Northern Ireland Bonsai Society workshop with Peter Warren of Saruyama Bonsai in Newtonards last weekend. A 500 mile round trip in 24 hours left me physically tired, but the experience of working once more with Peter was educational and energising. My tree was a larch clump collected in late 2014, it was first worked on in early 2016 at a Munster Bonsai Club workshop. It has a main trunk and several smaller trunks radiating around it, which emerge from beneath the surface. Part of any future re-potting will be to explore these secondary ..read more
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School Day coming up soon..
Sally's Bridge Bonsai
by Ray
3y ago
https://munsterbonsaiclub.wordpress.com/2018/11/07/school-day-in-bruree-with-ian-young ..read more
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Workshop with Peter Warren, September 2018. Pinus ‘Beuvronensis’.
Sally's Bridge Bonsai
by Ray
3y ago
This pine (Pinus sylvestris ‘Beuvronensis’) has been in my possession for about 8 years. In that time, I’ve made some mistakes with it, but it’s a strong tree and always forgave me. It was once a triple trunk. One of my first mistakes was a learning experience about how far you can or can’t bend thick branches. Gradually a trunk and primary branch structure has emerged and it was decided to refine this. One of the main issues, not clearly visible in the pictures is that the tree leans back quite far. This led to a useful discussion into the subtleties of how far forward a tree can lean ..read more
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Scouting for trees
Sally's Bridge Bonsai
by Ray
3y ago
I got a chance to scout around the local hills to see if there was anything worth collecting next winter. I found a few that I’ll return to and a few for inspiration ..read more
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Collecting larch
Sally's Bridge Bonsai
by Ray
3y ago
Yesterday was a good day for collecting ..read more
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Ash – Fraxinus excelsior
Sally's Bridge Bonsai
by Ray
3y ago
This ash was collected about 4 years ago and I’ve been reducing the roots and branches since. I took the chance this winter to repot to a smaller pot and begin to look at building ramification over the coming years ..read more
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Thick trunk boxwood
Sally's Bridge Bonsai
by Ray
3y ago
This is a boxwood collected about 3 years ago by Andrew in the woods. It has thrived in past year and it was time to make some decisions. I repotted to the smallest pot I dared and removed some shoots, wired some others. I reduced the dead wood also and tried a bit of carving. I’ll let it recover for the next year ..read more
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