Rob_phillips
Chumono
So this year greenwood bonsai nursery in Nottingham. uk.
Has been celebrating its 40th anniversary and this weekend to help celebrate they invited William N. Valavanis over to spend all weekend running workshops and performing demos and basically spreading his incredible knowledge.
If you dont know the nursery it was started and run by Harry tomlinson and now run by his son corrin Tomlinson and brother paul.
So i was lucky enough to go along on sunday for the juniper day and Bill gave a demo on some brilliant imported Japanese material it was a large shimpaku.
After this demo came a private workshop of which i booked myself into where about 10 of us got given a small itiogawa juniper that was selected at the draw of a hat then we got to work and style them with Bill i learned so much from him in the 3 hour workshop.
Here is a before and after of the tree
It still needs some work some more detail wiring and finish the deadwood off
And shari plus there is an ugly root that has been chopped so that it can safely be removed next year.
Has been celebrating its 40th anniversary and this weekend to help celebrate they invited William N. Valavanis over to spend all weekend running workshops and performing demos and basically spreading his incredible knowledge.
If you dont know the nursery it was started and run by Harry tomlinson and now run by his son corrin Tomlinson and brother paul.
So i was lucky enough to go along on sunday for the juniper day and Bill gave a demo on some brilliant imported Japanese material it was a large shimpaku.
After this demo came a private workshop of which i booked myself into where about 10 of us got given a small itiogawa juniper that was selected at the draw of a hat then we got to work and style them with Bill i learned so much from him in the 3 hour workshop.
Here is a before and after of the tree
It still needs some work some more detail wiring and finish the deadwood off
And shari plus there is an ugly root that has been chopped so that it can safely be removed next year.