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Potting Up
Yesterday saw us potting up the remaining Scots Pine and getting them into the poly tunnels. As usual I had the camera in hand. Some would say that this is a cunning ploy for me to avoid the heavy...
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Mouldy Old Spruce
Stephen and I took a closer look at the Spruce we collected back in February. They have been in a poly tunnel all this time and have been way in the back were it was hard to check. With me being rather...
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Hardening Off
I decided yesterday to do a little shuffling of trees that had been collected in the Spring. Well, when I say me, I mean my two sons working under my direction. Most where still in poly tunnels and I...
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Sorry Spruce
After our collecting trip back in February we came back with some rather nice Spruce. Most came with good rootballs and are still thriving well into there second flush of growth this year. This one was...
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Blogging From the Bog
I did a live post yesterday from the bog while we were collecting Scot’s Pine. It was a rare sunny day and as usual turned out to be one of the highlights of the bonsai year. Good company good craic,...
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I’m Back!
I think that’s officially the longest I have ever went without posting on the blog! I have been meeting myself coming back in work of late, with every minute taken up doing more important things than...
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A Great Start
I finished work today at 5 and am off now until 13th April. I have lots of bonsai things planned during this time and thought I’d get stuck in by clearing away the mess in the garage left over from the...
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And The Rest…
… of the pines, now tucked away in the tunnels. Mixture of Scots and Lodgepole.
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Some Day’s Are Made For Collecting
Managed to get out with Phil collecting yesterday and amazingly the sun came out! To be honest the day was more about getting permissions to collect in place and preparing some trees for collection in...
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Collecting…
I got out collecting again a few weeks ago with Phil. We managed to get back on to our old Hawthorn site. As my shoulder and neck are not really up to the task any more, I had Jeff my spade buddy along...
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