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Greetings from Moissac!

More from this months meeting

Lee's Chinese Juniper (A Tolley acquisition I believe!)

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Lee's (scouse) accent!

(Its an old joke, I know.....)

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Needle Juniper (owner unknown)

Happy Birthday to 'Blog'

Well done everybody, lets make it another good year.

Iain

(Cant believe its two years of this rubbish....)

ABBA spring symposium

As usual, double click to enlarge & read!

Peter Warren workshop

Peter hard at work at a members garden (more on this later!!)
(look closely)

The workshop hosted by Peter Warren is to be held at the Bebington civic centre- room TBC (but probably near to the Marco Workshop) on Saturday the 14th of March.

The room will be open from 9-5pm and the cost will be shared but will probably be based on using the 'Les formula' (turn up and find out.)

February Meeting -Simon Temblett

Below are pictures of the restyling of a wonderful Willow undertaken by Simon.
Plus one of the reason I couldnt make it (again!)
Iain

"Simon started by cutting off what was not required, dead branches etc. then went on to a more dramatic approach of diverting the course of the sap.
Where he didn't want the sap to flow he cut away the bark back to the wood, this, he hopes will force the sap to flow on the opposite side of the cut.
Drastic measures indeed, I guess the tree has two chances.......!!

Brian"

The before- sporting beautiful Plasticine 'fruit' used to weigh the branches down.
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Simon and tree, following 'fruit' removal.

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(The trees,... not Simon's ....wouldn't want to start any rumours-

though I did notice the locks arent as flowing as they used to be, but there again...who am I to talk!!)
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The Wirral club can be a tough audience!!!!

(the knife showing where the branch is to be cut off)
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The end result (or very nearly)


My 'Shohin' that needed some company on Wednesday!!
(....there you go Dina, picture as promised.)

Next up -restyling a Willow with Simon Temblett

Simon deep in study

[image courtesy of Stu from over the border ;) ]

This month sees a welcome return to Simon who will be restyling a willow (not sure if its the wonderful tree that sits on Dougs table??)
Im looking forward to it as I managed to miss his last visit!

Bonsai site of the Month-Bonsai software

This months site is actually an item available from the site of Antoni Payeras and Bonsai Menorca.

Not something that everyone will find interesting or useful but what the heck!!

This is an application created in MS Access to help you to control your bonsai collection.
They suggest it is specially useful for anybody with medium to big collections.
There are two versions, the “Light” which has nearly all the aspects that you need to control your collection and the the “Full” which has an element that helps you evaluate your Bonsai trees.

http://www.bonsaimenorca.com/index.php/Bonsai-Software/