The Bonsai Blog of Peter Evans

I managed to get out collecting this w.e.
I picked up a nice Hawthorn ( Crateagus ).

It came out with a good pad of roots so i was able to put it into a training pot.

I am sorry to have been so quiet here.
Work and finishing the new house have taken my time.
I have been able to start re-potting my trees now the weather is milder.
Two of my mame Hawthorn were due for re-potting and when i had them on the bench i remembered the pot i got from Gordon [...]

This one arrived yesterday.
It was commissioned from Vic Harris at Erin Bonsai. Suitable for shohin or small chuhin tree.

I finally found the time to give my Honysuckle it’s final trim of the year.
I had let the lower branches grow un-trimmed all year to help thicken the botom branches so these were the first to be cut.

The rest of the tree was trimmed back to keep it compact.

I also decided to clean the trunk. [...]

I picked up this new pot at the Exmouth show last week end.
It was made by Gordon Duffet and measures 7cm high and 10cm wide.

Sadly,my Chinese Elm did not survive the winter.
I am a bit gutted about this. Although i did not Love this tree, after looking after it for 18 years i had become attatched to it .
I have also recently lost one of my cats and this feels the same.
I feel a little empty.

I was clearing out pots last week end and came accross a small hawthorn.
This was the base of a tree i air-layered 2 years ago.
I was about to throw it away when i noticed a small trunk under the soil.
After further investigating, a nice mame appeared. It measures 15cm including pot.
I think it has a [...]

Managed to take some more pic’s of the proposed Semi Beech.

The plan is to carve the trunk to give taper and the re-arrange the branches to form the new tree.

I know the tree will take this amount of carving from previous attempts and also from the original raft.
This had a natural healing of the trunk [...]

R.I.P.
Bad news. This one has not survived the winter.I am feeling a bit gutted. Although not my favourate, i have spent a long time with this tree and i am suffering a loss.
I have only loss 3 trees before in 21 years and they were all fresh yamadori so this one hurts.

I have been thinking of changing this raft planting for some time.  It measures over 1.0m wide.
  
I am going to chop the trunk to make two trees.
 
A shorter raft and a semi cascade.
 
The work went well and the new raft was planted in a suitable dish.

 
The first part of the trunk was planted in a [...]