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Northumberland County Show
On Bank Holiday Monday Willowbog Bonsai will be at the Northumberland County Show at Bywell. It is a typical country show with livestock, horses, dogs, and poultry all being shown and judged. There is also a huge range of other … Continue reading
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Two Field maples
Acer campestre or Field maple is the UK’s only native representative of the maple family. I have just put two interesting, but different examples on the on-line shop. This sort of clump styled tree has been developed from raw material … Continue reading
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A couple of Tridents
Just added a couple of Trident maples to the Willowbog Bonsai on-line shop. Quite big but compact at only 60 cm high with a trunk base of 24 cm across. Needs the pruning scars sorting. Again a biggish but compact … Continue reading
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Gluttons for punishment !
Five Willowboggers participated in yesterdays regular monthly workshop here at Willowbog Bonsai. As usual I was fortunate to have both Terry and Ray to help out. Here Terry talks to Keith L. about his little larch. And Ray works on … Continue reading
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Unusual Rhododendron
I have just added this unknown [ to me ] Rhododendron species to our on-line shop. We have had this shohin size bonsai for a few seasons now and it just gets better and better. It has nice, pale salmon, … Continue reading
Deciduous bonsai on-line
Just added a few more of our stock of deciduous bonsai to our on-line shop. I rather hummed and hahed about the possibility of adding this example to the Willowbog Collection. It is one of the Southern beech family of … Continue reading
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Tagged bonsai, field maple, hawthorn, maple, on-line shop, scots elm, southern beech, Willowbog
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Woodland Garden Progress
Earlier this week Mrs. Snart and I got a few more trees planted in the Willowbog Farm Woodland Garden. We had paid a visit in February to a really good wholesale plant nursery that we use, mainly to look for … Continue reading
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Tagged bonsai, bonsai people, brewers spruce, colorado spruce, european yew, stone pine, tree planting, woodland garden
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No need of Jean’s soup !
Another lovely sunny day for our May Bonsai Chat yesterday meant that there was definitely no need for Jean’s homemade soup for the participants in our monthly bonsai community day. Just look at the numbers of trees brought along yesterday, … Continue reading
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Artisans Cup postponed until September 2015-
Reblogged from Crataegus Bonsai: This is a guest post by Ryan Neil. I am in full support of his words here: Over the past fourteen months of research and planning the potential of the Artisans Cup has been a driving … Continue reading
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Wise Greek philosophers
Greece is famous for its wise philosophers !! However, this is not one of them !! It is in fact my very good friend [ well, maybe just friend, well maybe just an acquaintance, well, certainly I remember meeting him … Continue reading
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