An open window into the comings and goings of students and their trees attending our regular weekend and midweek bonsai classes under the ever watchful eyes of John Hanby. Classroom Corner – It’s that trimming time of year again…. These pictures were all taken on a recent midweek class. All the trees had shown good […]
An open window into the comings and goings of students and their trees attending our regular weekend and midweek bonsai classes under the ever watchful eyes of John Hanby. Classroom Corner – Hard summer pruning! Sometimes trees really need a drastic pruning. Often they are too dense but in some cases the branches have simply […]
An open window into the comings and goings of students and their trees attending our regular weekend and midweek bonsai classes under the ever watchful eyes of John Hanby. Classroom Corner – A simple Beech forest….. John brought in some Beech he had been nurturing for a while with the intention of bringing some of […]
An open window into the comings and goings of students and their trees attending our regular weekend and midweek bonsai classes under the ever watchful eyes of John Hanby. Classroom Corner – A forest and a raft…..testing times. These two trees turned up on a recent one to three afternoon session. The Hawthorns had been […]
An open window into the comings and goings of students and their trees attending our regular weekend and midweek bonsai classes under the ever watchful eyes of John Hanby. Classroom Corner – Deciduous and Conifers….pruning for the next level. The pictures below were all taken during the same open workshop held in September 2016. These […]
An open window into the comings and goings of students and their trees attending our regular weekend and midweek bonsai classes under the ever watchful eyes of John Hanby. Classroom Corner – Two Larch Groups Just before Christmas Larch material was turning up regularly on classes. Some of this material involved group plantings. The first […]
An open window into the comings and goings of students and their trees attending our regular weekend and midweek bonsai classes under the ever watchful eyes of John Hanby. Classroom Corner – Some recent visitors One of the benefits of attending an open workshop is that you learn from your fellow students trees as well […]
An open window into the comings and goings of students and their trees attending our regular weekend and midweek bonsai classes under the ever watchful eyes of John Hanby. Classroom Corner – Derek’s Tanuki Juniper Derek recently brought his Tanuki Juniper Blue Alps to a class for advice on it’s progress. This tree really has […]
An open window into the comings and goings of students and their trees attending our regular weekend and midweek bonsai classes under the ever watchful eyes of John Hanby. Classroom Corner – Just a bit of pruning…… ……can make all the difference! Often we prune for that initial styling, removing a large amount of foliage […]
An open window into the comings and goings of students and their trees attending our regular weekend and midweek bonsai classes under the ever watchful eyes of John Hanby. Classroom Corner – Andrew’s Juniper one to one Included in the trees Andrew brought for his one to one session were these three Junipers. The main […]