The new Academy 2020 got off to a great start despite the weather’s best attempts to sabotage the event. Whilst some students unfortunately could not make it 19 managed to successfully brave the elements. Each student arrived with the best and worst maple from their collection. Working in groups they had to arrange the maples […]
Some of my clients now have me carrying out Niwaki work in their gardens. Basically styling and shaping garden trees and shrubs to enhance that Japanese flavour in their garden to complement their bonsai. The pictures below show initial styling work to establish a new form for the tree providing a basic platform on which […]
A regular update on the life and times of John Hanby’s Newstead Bonsai Centre…….. Topical Times – Bonsai?…..are not they those small trees? Ask anyone you come across about Bonsai and I am sure they will only be too happy to explain to you that it is all about small miniature trees. Yesterday’s workshop was […]
A regular update on the life and times of John Hanby’s Newstead Bonsai Centre…….. Topical Times – Top Ten UK blog selection! I am pleased to announce that our blog has been selected as one of the top ten Bonsai blogs in the UK by Feedspot.com. I will endeavour to keep the standard up in […]
A regular update on the life and times of John Hanby’s Newstead Bonsai Centre…….. Topical Times – Colour in the Bonsai garden…..
A regular update on the life and times of John Hanby’s Newstead Bonsai Centre…….. Topical Times – A tale of two Junipers! On a recent one to two class these two very similar Junipers turned up. One was a Juniper Chinensis imported from Japan whilst the other was Juniper Squamata which was field grown from […]
A regular update on the life and times of John Hanby’s Newstead Bonsai Centre…….. Topical Times – When two become one ……..again! These two Junipers had been collected together from the wild in Europe. They had been separated for a few years, there had been a change of ownership, but now they were back in […]
A regular update on the life and times of John Hanby’s Newstead Bonsai Centre…….. Topical Times – When two become one…….. This work was recently carried out at a clients home. He had two red Deshojo Maple groups. One consisted of three trees in a round pot whilst the other was a forest planting in […]
A regular update on the life and times of John Hanby’s Newstead Bonsai Centre…….. Topical Times – Larch forest repotted This substantial Larch forest from our sales benches was originally put together in the 1980’s. It had not been repotted for over 6 years so it was brought in to the studio on a recent […]
A regular update on the life and times of John Hanby’s Newstead Bonsai Centre…….. Topical Times – Matthews Juniper Ittogawa Matthew brought this Juniper to a recent open workshop. It was the first time I had seen this tree. The tree had some good foliage clouds and a very interesting trunk with excellent movement, good […]