A regular update on the life and times of John Hanby’s Newstead Bonsai Centre…….. Topical Times – My Sagaretia visits the academy! During a recent session of one of my academy groups I introduced my own Sagaretia for discussion and pruning. The tree was repotted in the spring and has grown really well during the […]
A regular update on the life and times of John Hanby’s Newstead Bonsai Centre…….. Topical Times – Styling an old Juniper This tree probably arrived from Japan back in the very early days when the first imported Bonsai were just beginning to arrive in England. At that time it would have been very highly regarded […]
A regular update on the life and times of John Hanby’s Newstead Bonsai Centre…….. Topical Times – Ian’s Juniper is finally styled On a workshop last weekend I finally got round to styling Ian’s Juniper. It came out of the ground 12 months ago and basically had been allowed to grow freely this year. Some […]
A regular update on the life and times of John Hanby’s Newstead Bonsai Centre…….. Topical Times – Pruning to control growth. These three trees were all brought to classes recently……two Privets and a Trident Maple. They had all put on good growth since the last time I saw them a few months ago. Like most […]
A regular update on the life and times of John Hanby’s Newstead Bonsai Centre…….. Topical Times – Pruning garden trees……a change is as good as….. I recently managed to arrange to prune two garden trees on the same day. My clients did not live too far apart so it was good to be able to […]
A regular update on the life and times of John Hanby’s Newstead Bonsai Centre…….. Topical Times – One to one away from home! Yesterday I visited one of my clients for a one to one at his home specifically to deal with his Satsuki Azaleas and his Black Pines. We had selected a slightly larger […]
A regular update on the life and times of John Hanby’s Newstead Bonsai Centre…….. Topical Times – White Pines….some of our new arrivals…and a few more azalea pictures!
A regular update on the life and times of John Hanby’s Newstead Bonsai Centre…….. Topical Times – Some of the Satsuki Azaleas on our sales bench
A regular update on the life and times of John Hanby’s Newstead Bonsai Centre…….. Topical Times – Big John is defoliated! Th timing for this work was just about spot on……although a little later than normal because of the recent cold weather which had slowed down the growth on most trees. You can see how […]
A regular update on the life and times of John Hanby’s Newstead Bonsai Centre…….. Topical Times – Another delivery of pots!!! Following an extremely good run of sales from both visitors and students the pot room was once again looking sparse. At this time of year demand is always high so I acted quickly and […]