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 […]
A regular update on the life and times of John Hanby’s Newstead Bonsai Centre…….. Topical Times – Andrew’s Juniper one to one… Just before Christmas Andrew visited the nursery for a one to one. Most of the day was to be spent on a substantial Juniper Parsonii. The tree had been wired and styled before […]
A regular update on the life and times of John Hanby’s Newstead Bonsai Centre…….. Topical Times – Heathrow Bonsai Show Demo 2017 The Heathrow Show took place this year on Sunday 22nd October and with over 30 clubs exhibiting and over 30 traders this was quite an event. Mark and Ming Moreland must take great […]
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 […]