car /pc /camera /trouble etc. etc.ect..

   I won't go into any details but I've had more than my share of problems lately
including the rush to get ready for this cold weather!!!
   I hope everyone is ready for this winter, the first freeze is tonight.
I've got all my tropicals in the greenhouse yesterday just in time.

   The following are trees that belong to members of the  Ft.Worth Bonsai club

We had a crowd of people
looking at the display trees

One of the vendors Estelle Flather

More people looking at the display trees

 

Another vendor "Se" with his shimpaku junipers















yours truly with Jacob at my vendor's table

Jacob & wife Kristi & friend

Thanks Jacob for all the help!!!!







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My first ever video: a Brazilian Rain Tree

               This is my fist attempt at making a video pretty clumsy
 but I'll improve with practice.
               The pictures from last month are salvageable
 I'll post them later.



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Sorry about last month

    Sorry about last month I didn't post any thing because
 I broke my camera.
I'm hoping I can salvage some of the pictures that were
 taken last month.
How ever I ordered  a new camcorder to take some
 videos & as soon as I can become able to use it
 I will post some videos with it. So please be patient.
     It has arrived & one of my friends is coming
 over to instruct me on how to use it to make a video,
 so give me a couple of days & I'll post a video!!!!
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Ft.Worth Botanical Gardens Bonsai Exhibit

      Ft.Worth Botanical Gardens on University Dr. will host Ft.Worth's Bonsai Society's Bonsai exhibit this weekend on Saturday June 21 hours are: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
 & Sunday June 22 hours are 12:00 to4:00 pm.
      Admission is free & open to the public so come on out & see the Bonsai display; in addition there will several Bonsai vendors selling Bonsai trees,pots & tools.  Bent Tree Bonsai will be there
 hope you can make it  

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TO MAKE SENSE OF THE BLOG... SORRY FOR THE
INCONVENIENCE 


      The following trees are ones which I'll be taking to Ft.Worth to sell:

   These are just a few I'll have many others





This is just a quick show on how to correct
reverse taper  

you have to carve out the bulge to
bring the truck back into line

  with the rest of the tree

  then you cover the wound with cut paste

       PD your tree is 8 or 9 yrs. old

   Earlier this spring Jacob & I were trying to
repot some dug up Hollie's

  None of them survived  some times you win
some times you lose!!

  On a brighter note this collected
Parsley Hawthorn bloomed for the
first time after ten yrs.


          That's all for now see you in Ft.Worth this weekend !!!!!



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As promised some of my customers from last month

       I think I got every bodies name right, if not please accept my apologies   

       This is Daniel he bought a bougi & a boxwood

         Tony & Tammy they bought two Fukien Teas& a pot

  
            This is Christopher & wife /girl friend? I forgot but
    she picked out the pomegranate.

        This is Susie & Butch & they picked out a Juniper.

      This is Rene Solis I was helping her clean out some
  shrubbery from her church. That's to big for Bonsai.

      That's all for now, I'll post again in a few more days.


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Sorry I haven't posted any thing for last month

          I have been extremely busy not only with Bonsai but other issues involving my banking /my computer/  other matters with my Bonsai business & so on /& so on ....you get the idea !!!
         Any way I promise I will post pictures of some of my customers from last month , in the next couple
of days on my next post.
         As you well know March & April were up & down weather wise I was not able to get my tropicals
out of the greenhouse because of the threat of late freezes!!! So I am still trying to catch up on getting
completely set up. You know I've got my shade cloth up/ set my benches up / trying to clean up weeds/
keep up with fertilization & spraying for bugs/ trimming & styling trees / making cuttings/ re-potting  it never
ends!!!


 

                             This is a crepe myrtle with a large mass of roots
                              I had to shave off the bottom of the rot ball

                                                   After I re-potted & wired it

                                           This is while it was in the greenhouse

                                         This was a couple of days ago

                                          This is after trimming

                             
                                        Brazilian rain tree with long branches

                                        Partially trimmed 

                         
                                        After trimming , most of the branches
                                        were used for making cuttings

                              
                                         Winged cedar elm in a plastic tray

                           same cedar elm in bonsai pot,  needs trimming 

                                         As you can see I've got my work cut
                                         out for me I'll be busy for quite awhile


      That's all for now check back in 3 to 4 days & I'll post again

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