I forgot Tonys white pine !!

 Tony's white pine

The 3 category winners.

Welcome to our new follower

Hi Rodrigo, thanks for joining us, hope you enjoy the blog

John

2011 annual club show

Another great turn out for this years show, the voting in the 3 size catagories was very close, a testament to the improving quality of members trees.

Here are pics of all the trees displayed.

 Chris's trident maple

 Mikes rigida juniper

 Petes juniper

 Johns potentilla

 Johns juniper kishu

 Mikes box

 Philips ficus

Teds juniper, winner of the shohin category

 Tonys hornbeam

 Johns larch, winner of the chuhin category

 Dereks chinese elm

 Petes larch group

 Mikes box

 Mikes amur maple

 Petes raft azalea

 Chris's cedar

 Petes common juniper

 Johns maple clump

 Teds rigida juniper

 Mikes scots pine, winner of the large category and BEST IN SHOW

 Petes maple

 Mikes hemlock

 Mike Rose accepting the shield for best in show from Derek Hill

Mikes fantastic scots pine with the Best in Show shield

Table Display Thursday 4th August

Apologies for the lack of trees showing this week.

Chris's Cedar, this tree is really starting to age nicely. The foliage pads need to develop more but the tree has a lovely feel to it.

Sneaky Chris has added a couple of Rosemary branch jins for effect...they look great.
The shot below shows Chris wiring the tree at an earlier club night...minus the jins.

I'm not sure if that's cat sick on the moss.....or could it be akadama ?

John's Cork bark Chinese Elm. The smaller "rafted" trunk developing on the left is actually a cutting from the main tree that was introduced into the trees rootball around 4 years ago, it's thickening up quite nicely but the branch development has a way to go yet.
The pot looks very bright and needs some patina to develop. I always felt the pot was too small but looking at the photograph now I'm not sure....any suggestions from our followers ?

Mr Kimura's nursery

After lunch at a fantastic restaurant we made our way to Mr Kimura's garden / nursery

 Fish & Chips Japanese style

 Beautiful Ikebana display (yes I do have a cultured side)

 Mr Kimura surrounded by the motley crew, if you look closely you can see John Pitt picking Mr Kimura's pocket...at least that's what I thought he was doing !

 White Pine planted on rock

 Juniper

 Juniper

 Juniper planted on rock

 Black Pine

 Juniper

 Quince

 Crytomeria group planting on rock

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If you want to see more pictures from our trip to Japan, follow the link from this site to John Pitts website. From there you can link to his album of photographs.

Pete Warren tree critique 21st July 2011

The great thing about these critique nights, (apart from getting the chance to take the pi**), is that Pete takes you through design elements, horticultural requirements, planning for the next 12 months etc etc for all the different species we take along.

Chris's maple

 Geoffs air layered chinese elm

 John's pine

 Johns hawthorne

 John yew

 Marks root on rock azalea

 Mikes field maple

 Pauls privet

 Petes azalea

 Philips white pine

Tonys pine












We find these nights invaluble for future development and styling of our bonsai.
A critique night for your club with Pete Warren is highly recommended.