IX Heathrow Bonsai Show!!
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My first bonsai award!!  .... Olive wins best in show - exhibitor's choice! Last weekend, another fantastic day was had at the annual Heathrow Bonsai show. This exhibition has become extremely popular and trees were on display from 36 different bonsai clubs from across the U.K. This is a show I have supported for a few years now and organisers Mark, Ming and their helpers are to be thoroughly commended on the superb job they perform each year.  I attended the show trading for the EBPC, and displaying with Maidstone Bonsai Society, so was rushed off my feet all day. It wasn't until ..read more
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Scale insect spotted on a Prunus mume.
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Whilst pruning this quite vigorous Japanese flowering Apricot today, I came across this one solitary scale insect. I was quite concerned as these are one of the few tree species that will not tolerate systemics (others include some elms e.g. Hokkaido and Chojubai (Dwarf flowering Quince)).  Scale insects present as hard shells of approx. 2 to 4mm in length, with a cotton wool-like fluff underneath. They suck the juices from a tree and unchecked can do a lot of damage to a small tree in numbers.  I searched the rest of the tree and found only two more. They c ..read more
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Pyracantha now sold
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Firethorne / Pyracantha Coccinea in custom made 'Erin' pot I have decided to let go of my much beloved Firethorn bonsai.  Height 14"/36cm. 5"/12cm trunk base. This tree has been with me for four years now. The carving and initial styling was done with Harry Harrington, and the tree has been refined by myself and Lee V.  Undergoing carving work with Harry Harrington in 2015. On show at Heathrow bonsai show in 2017. (with a Juniper sabina above!) Height 14"/36cm. 5"/12cm trunk base. ​ ​Price: - SOLD -  to UK and Europe (EU) customers only please. We cannot export live ..read more
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Juniperus communis evolution
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Above is tree as I received it in 2014. I thought it an attractive tree, with potential but it needed some work. Over time the trunk was cranked in and down to compact the overall height and add to the movement of the tree.  I pruned and wired the entire tree, and Harry Harrington did an amasing job of laying out the branches and creating this image below.   Although I love this image, and it was a vast improvement, the taller apex bothered me, as it was too far from the tree's centre of gravity and made the tree look unbalanced. It was decided in 2017 to remove t ..read more
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Juniper Sabina Spring re-potting 2017
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A shohin sized Sabina Juniper.  I got this tree just over 2 years ago now, so it has been 3 or 4 years plus since collection. It has put on lots of growth, and is healthy. In 2015, the only work done was with Harry Harrington to the deadwood and live veins. None of the foliage was touched at all.  Last summer (2016), one large branch was removed. It was later styled with Taiga Urushibata at the Spirit of Shohin exhibition workshop at Wisley, U.K.   Generally a Juniper should be re-potted before styling, in case a root is damaged which kills a branch essential to th ..read more
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Dublin trip to the Leinster Bonsai Club workshop with Harry Harrington
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On the weekend, I helped out at this workshop, and was really impressed by the material and passion the guys in Dublin have. A big thank you to Leinster Club and Harry for inviting me along, and for your hospitality & a great weekend.   The club has only existed for 4 years, yet 10 guys with great material and loads of enthusiasm turned up & did some fantastic work, and with Harry took their trees forward to the next stage.  A huge Berberis with some beautiful natural deadwood  The best Hawthorne raft material I've ever seen ..read more
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7th Annual Heathrow Show 2016.
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The last show of the year for me is the Heathrow Bonsai Show, which took place today at the new, much larger location at Harlington Sports Centre. A huge thank you to Mark and Ming Moreland for all their hard work in once again putting on such a great event!  For more on the pot display Richard and I were asked to put on, please click here. I showed some trees with Shiten bonsai society. I was very pleased with how our display turned out. Thanks to Les, Steve and Jose! Steve's stunning maple! Little & Large; my Cork Bark / Arakawa Maple, next to my mame display. A super ..read more
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Olea sylvestris - Wild Olive
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When I acquired this tree from Harry, it had been 2 years since it had been dug up. These photos, taken by Harry Harrington, show the tree's development from May 2015 to August 2016. Height 20:/49cm, trunk base 11"/27cm. Currently potted in a vintage green Shuhu pot.  These photos were taken in 2014 in Spain I believe, and the tree was collected / dug up the year before.  In 2015, the tree was wired and de-wired twice. To build a start building a ramified branch structure with dense foliage pads, I let shoots extend some to thicken and produce energy for ..read more
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Multi-trunk Privet - a journey begins!
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In the U.K Privet is commonly found as garden hedges. It makes great bonsai material, and is sometimes referred to as 'poor man's Olive!' Privet can be; deciduous, semi-evergreen, or evergreen, depending on species. Due to constant trimming often for decades, they can have interesting, thick trunks with great movement.  Ligustrum ovalifolium (Privet) are vigorous growing plants with an alternate leaf pattern arrangement and oval shaped leaves; which reduce well with increased ramification and defoliation techniques. I was after some nice raw material that had been dug up, an ..read more
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Juniper prune, wire & re-style
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This great tree is one of my favourites, with fantastic movement in the trunk and branches & it's aged roots clinging onto and over a rock.  2014 Winter '14 The tree required pruning quite hard, to let light into the inner portions of the tree, and to create some more definition to what has become one large pad of foliage.  Feb '15 branch thinned and wired. Starting at the bottom of the tree, i wired all primary and secondary branches. At a training session with Harry Harrington, lower branches were placed, with some guy w ..read more
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