Monthly Archives: March 2012

In which Mr. Greedy aquires a new bonsai !!

Posted on March 31, 2012 by

Feeling a little deprived by not being able to add to his collection due to constraints imposed by the Proprietor and blamed on the adverse trading conditions , Mr Greedy resorted to raiding Mrs. Greedy’s garden to add a new … Continue reading →

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A day off , a day out !

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

The nursery is closed three days a week but this does not mean that we have three days off ! As there is always a huge number of jobs, of all descriptions, waiting to be done, the only way to … Continue reading →

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Unorthodox techniques ???

Posted on March 26, 2012 by

Yesterday one time ” Head Willowbogger ” Mr. Len Gilbert made a, now all too infrequent, visit to the nursery to re-pot one of his trees. This is the bonsai in question. It is one of Len’s own creations in … Continue reading →

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Todays workshop

Posted on March 24, 2012 by

Today at the nursery we hosted another very good novice/intermediate workshop with nine participants getting a variety of work done on their bonsai. As we do with most events staged in the studio, I put a tree in the tokonoma. … Continue reading →

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At last it has been confirmed ! I am a plonker , Jean just said so !!!!!

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

With regard to my big announcement of a post or two ago concerning the visit to the nursery of Mr. Ryan Neil,  I actually looked at this years calendar to get the dates  So……………….  the dates are really  2013   January … Continue reading →

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Addendum to last post [ not the trumpet solo ]

Posted on March 21, 2012 by

Bonsai Eejit volunteered this photo from his collection to give some scale to the larch featured last time . It may not help that much though as I suspect that is an Irish elf in green beside the tree , … Continue reading →

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A long overdue re-pot of a Willowbog Collection larch

Posted on March 21, 2012 by

The tree featured in this post is a Japanese larch, Larix kaempferi, that I collected myself locally, I have no record of when exactly but I reckon that it must be something like 15 plus years ago. I consider one … Continue reading →

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Addendum to the Peter Warren workshop post

Posted on March 20, 2012 by

As requested by Mr. Donnelly from Northern Ireland here is a photo of the Taxus cuspidata belonging to Dave Hannah that was re-potted on Sunday. This is the re-pot complete , in it’s new pot and recovering in our polytunnel … Continue reading →

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Worth the long haul ??

Posted on March 20, 2012 by

This is a chuhin size itoigawa juniper that got a little attention last weekend from Peter Warren. It has an interesting story. The bonsai is owned by Willowbogger, Dave Hannah, and it has been his since it was imported from … Continue reading →

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Mr. Peter Warren back at Willowbog

Posted on March 19, 2012 by

Following on from his excellent contribution to the BSA show weekend Peter Warren was back at the nursery to conduct two days of workshops yesterday and the day before. This was Peter’s second stint of workshops for us and it … Continue reading →

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