A regular update on the life and times of John Hanby’s Newstead Bonsai Centre……..
Topical Times – Winter’s coming…Autumn’s gone
It only takes a few mild dry days to get you and your trees thinking of spring. A pleasant start to 2013 but you know it’s going to get worse before it get’s better. So the return of the cold and this morning’s frost was a stark reality shock to bring you back into the real world.
The white sheen on the natural moss canopy provided a tell-tale contrast to the solemn black lava rock of this Indonesian lantern.
……………and if the weathermen are to be believed it is about to get much worse!!!
So think of the mistakes you made, the trees you lost 2 years ago in that wickedly cold December. Protect your Chinese Elms, Trident Maples, Olives and anything else that’s slightly temperate or Mediterranean. If it gets ridiculously bad again (-17) bring them into a cool room in the house if you have to.
On a sad note it’s touching to see my two friends in the last snowy fields surrounding Newstead…..both of them died without warning in 2012, brother and sister, less than 6 years old.
The drab damp weather really seems to hang around forever but time really does fly. We’re all getting used to looking at sombre solitary trunks with lifeless empty branches and yet how long is it since they were awash with gaudy colour enjoying that final fancy fling.
Sadly these autumn colours are indeed long gone………and whether we like it or not winter is definitely coming!…………….