My Hawthorn

I thought I'd post a few photos of my new acquisition. Collected and purchases during my visit to Swindon via a bonsai friend.

It only just fitted in the car on the way home, and clawed and scratched at me the whole way:



Huge Grin Guys!!!! Here it comes



Thoughts?? :)

that looks great - so much age in that bark

Congratulations

Looks very nice from the pictures

Hawthorn envy here on this side of the pond! Enjoy your new baby! Worth any blood you donate to work on it. BTW, do you normally prune off the thorns before working on Hawthorns?
Thanks,
Todd

MY opion to you,, You have found yourself a great tree !! be happy enjoy..keep us posted take care john

Thanks for your replies:

@todd - I think for an authentic winter image you need to see the barbs, I'm guessing there's only so many times they can rip into and hack you to pieces before they have to go ;)
We'll see how I get on during wiring later towards the end of the year

Here's a close up of the bark:




Regards Bryan

very nice hawthorn. Bought just like that, no need to tell offcourse but that must have been a pricy tree

yves71277 wrote:very nice hawthorn. Bought just like that, no need to tell offcourse but that must have been a pricy tree

And if it wasn't: Who was selling and does this person have more of them?

This tree really excites me, especially the bark. Wow!

That's a real beauty with excellent character, congrats on the acquisition and keep us posted on the progress.

Wow!
That's some seriously killer material to work with. I see a lot of potential there for development into a really, REALLY good bonsai.
Congrats!

The Burrs 2013 Styling enhancement ....for reference:

Terry Foster and Hans Van Meer and I chatted about how to approach enhancing the styling of the tree.
Hans taking a Reference photo

Working some of the deadwood.






The Finished tree, and all the bits that were trimmed off.



During the evenings banter, I found Terry squinting and measuring up the days styling. Hans came across the room with a beaming smile "My god...have you seen that tree from over there!!??"

Great times... A pleasure to meet you, and Thanks for all your help.

Bang upto date April 2014!

After the Burrs weekend my hawthorn has spent a quite few months in the corner of the garden, praying that went weren't to get the 2' of snow we had last year. Moved to a nice spot it's started to bloom quite happily. Even pushing buds on old wood :)



Front

Back


I've looked over the tree this morning and I'm expecting quite a few flowers :)
Bry

Wonderful! Please post pics of the flowers.

Going to be an absolute stonker of a tree. Keep the pics coming please.



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I'm a non UK english speaker, and it does look to be an absolute stonker of a tree! No translation needed

I worked on a bunch of Hawthorn at the Weyerhaeuser collection yesterday, many of which were in bloom. A coupla nice ones but nothing Stonker class like this one

At the risk of giving Bry a big head, that is a stonking tree!

Not much else needs saying except please keep the thread updated as it develops further.

Regards

Richard

Thanks for your comments. These are about it for now. Over the last day or so the buds have filled out nicely. We await the flowers ;)

what a beauty.....Jealousy is a terrible thing but if any one wants some i have plenty to pass around.
can't wait to see that on the show bench in a year or two. keep those updates coming.

What a nice tree, love this!

Fantastic Bryan.It was a pleasure to watch you work on this tree at Burrs. Looks even better in leaf. Please post pics again when it flowers. This is one amazing tree and will just keep getting better and better.

Cheers guys

Appreciate the comments. The leaves are unfurling nicely now, with some extension and the flower buds are fattening up nicely too

Will DEFINITLY be grabbing some photographs :) :ThumbsUp: 

I love it...and you have done right by the tree. Wish it was mine even if it scratches...he he hhe
I saw it on your blog.

A fantastic tree Brian.
Would love to have a Hawthorn but in a small size. As Dan Butler said "Jealousy is a terrible thing"..
Looking forward to see those white/rose flowers.

Great specimen nice job.