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Some new arrivals!

22/8/2014

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Rare variegated English Elm shohin sized tree in handmade pot by Erin Pottery.
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Beautiful leaves!

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Trident root over rock, planted on slate. Shohin size.

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Another root over rock shohin Trident maple in a hand made Erin pot.

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A Chuhin size (21-40cm) white pine, with a shohin Japanese white pine in front.

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A beautiful large Kiyohime maple

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An accent / companion planting I arranged in a handmade pot by Catrine Pottery.

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and a vibrant Arakawa Maple, coming into Autumn colour! Must have been bathing in the sun; but leaves are as healthy as can be!

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Azalea rescue! .. Is it yamadori if dug up from a garden?

13/8/2014

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These 2 azaleas were in huge pots and 2 years ago were being thrown out as they were really struggling. lichen had smothered the branches & buds and suffocated them.

Tree 1

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This was in year 2, coming back to health, after I maticulously removed all lichen with a toothbrush/tweezers and removed the worst parts.

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With further pruning and shaping, this should make a beautiful tree ..



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Work in progress - reducing a silver birch & a dwarf holly to shohin size.

12/8/2014

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Silver Birch - this tree was in a large pot and had been neglected. I want to reduce it in height to under 21cm, as it will make a great shohin tree with its thick but low trunk. I have been hard pruning it to reduce height and induce back budding, and the tree has responded well.


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The root ball was longer than me!

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Potted up. She has some new buds & leaves where I've pruned her, so I'll slowly keep reducing & inducing, and hopefully she'll make for a beautiful tree!


Dwarf holly - again in a large patio pot; feeling a little neglected. Again I've been pruning her back and she's been back budding nicely!

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Was fun getting that out!

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I'll keep slowly pruning back branches to get them to back bud, and I'll put some pics up when further developed.

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Acer buergerianum - trident maple. Defoliation

12/8/2014

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Mid June defoliation

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5 weeks later; within 3 weeks she was pushing out leaves!

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  • Home
  • Mai Trees
    • Maples: Acer sp. >
      • Palmatum - Japanese Mountain Maple
      • A buergerianum - Trident Maple
      • A campestre - Field Maple
      • Arakawa - Cork Bark Maple
      • Beni Shichehenge
      • Deshojo - Red Maple
      • Kashima
      • Katsura
      • Kiyohime - A dwarf variety
      • Mikawa Yatsubusa - 'Shingles on a roof'
      • Seigen
      • Shishigashira - Lion's head Maple
    • Other deciduous bonsai >
      • Beech
      • Elm >
        • Cork bark elm
        • Chinese Elm
        • Hokkaido Elm
        • Jacqualine Hillier Elm
        • Rare variegated English Elm
        • Siberian Elm
        • Zelkova serrata - Japanese saw-leaf elm
      • Hawthorne
      • Larch >
        • Larix Decidua
        • Larix Leptolepsis
      • Silver Birch
      • Weeping willow
    • Evergreens >
      • Cedar - Cedrus family
      • Fig
      • Cypress
      • Hemlock
      • Junipers >
        • J chinensis - Chinese Juniper
        • J communis - Common Juniper >
          • J communis - Cont.
        • J Itoigawa - Itogawa Juniper
        • J rigida - Needle Juniper
        • J. Sabina - Sabina Juniper
      • Olive
      • Pines >
        • P. Densiflora - Japanese Red Pine
        • P Mugo - Mountain Pine >
          • P uncinata / P mugo var. rostrata.
        • P pentaphylia - Japanese White Pine
        • P sylvestris - Scots Pines
        • P strobus - White Pine
        • P Thunbergii - Japanese Black Pine
      • Privet
      • Spruce
      • Yew
    • Flowering bonsai >
      • Apple
      • Azalea
      • Blackthorne
      • Cherry - Fuji no mai
      • Holly
      • Japanese Flowering Apricot
      • Lavender
      • Mulberry
      • Potentilla
      • Pyracantha
      • Dwarf Quince
      • Wisteria
    • By Size >
      • Mame trees
      • Shohin Trees
      • Chuhin Trees
      • Root-over-rock style trees
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