winter workshop december ’16

Sally's Bridge Bonsai

Last weekend Mark hosted a Munster Bonsai Club workshop with Ian Young and Phil Donnelly. I could only take part on the Saturday although the lads kept things rolling on Sunday.

More from Mark’s blog here;

https://rustedrootbonsai.wordpress.com/2016/12/13/a-great-december-workshop/

Introductions

Trees lined up for attention

Phil checking the roots of Ger’s JWP, a tree he purchased several years ago in Dublin

Initially the talk was of reducing the crown…

Then, the possibility of removing much more…

my larch clump, collected about a year previously

Dermot’s nice juniper

Mark had some homework done…

better view of Dermot’s juniper

great minds think alike… Piotr’s clump larch

Mark’s pine was already well developed

more discussions

more options discussed

down to work

work continues

hungry work

you missed a bit

larch after some jinning and pruning

I can’t believe you let him cut so much off !

my homework is some wiring to bring down the…

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