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Good start !

Posted on January 6, 2013 by

A reasonable turn out for our first Bonsai Chat of this new year. For once we had no concerns about bad weather affecting folks ability to get here in their vehicles or  more crucially for them to get home ! … Continue reading →

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Possibly……..probably , the last general workshop ever, well no,just of this year !

Posted on November 25, 2012 by

Of the regular monthly workshops that we conduct, November’s is usually the last, though we are happy to stage one in December if folks want. I guess that at that time in the last month of the year people’s minds … Continue reading →

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From an earlier time !

Posted on October 19, 2012 by

When I was last over in Norn. Ireland, somebody, Phillip or Stephen ?? kindly gave me some prints of photos that they has taken on a visit to Willowbog in the last century , actually that sounds really weird, but … Continue reading →

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The Gravel Garden spruce

Posted on August 20, 2012 by

I posted about this tree a while back when I lifted it from our gravel garden where I had planted it when it was collected. It has been doing really well in the polytunnel and seems never to have been … Continue reading →

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Big Spruce

Posted on August 12, 2012 by

Not sure if I have used this image already on this blog [ it's a memory and age thing ! ] The tree is a Norway spruce, Picea abies, from the Willowbog Collection. This photo was taken in the studio … Continue reading →

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Well that certainly worked !!!

Posted on August 5, 2012 by

I am now about to claim that Friday’s post in which I quite deliberately insulted our esteemed customers was a bit of reverse psychology aimed at getting a good turn out at the August Bonsai Chat yesterday !! Just look … Continue reading →

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A batch of Common hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna, added to the web-shop

Posted on May 14, 2012 by

We added seven hawthorn to the Willowbog Bonsai on-line store tonight Only part styled but already in a nice hand-made Walsall Ceramic oval pot. Great movement in this chunky trunk ! in an oval mica pot. Chuhin size. Also excellent … Continue reading →

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Too many branches

Posted on April 9, 2012 by

I decided yesterday that not much harm would be done if I began the process of selecting branches on the big spruce ” stolen ” from the Proprietor’s gravel garden the other day and covered in a previous post here. … Continue reading →

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Pinus sylvestris bonsai

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

When I was trying to choose which trees to highlight in my final post on the Noelanders Trophy the other day, it struck me just how many of the bonsai in the show there were that had been created from … Continue reading →

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A couple of collected trees

Posted on January 12, 2012 by

Yesterday I managed to find the energy to get out to dig some new raw material.  In days of yore, a morning spent collecting would yield anywhere been 10 and 15 trees that could, given the right passage of time, … Continue reading →

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