Dragon weekend workshop and display.

Chris Thomas and Dragon bonsai have arranged a weekend workshop at Bonllwyn this weekend.

Chris asked me to post some of the trees. Hopefully he will fill in the gaps in the info.
A few from the workshop.
Anthony's white pine.




Lewis's field maple raft.



Malcolm's chinese juniper.


Anthony's larch.


More from Sunday's workshop to follow.

Chris put together a number of displays.
(Apologies for the soft focus.)

John Pitt's fine hawthorn raft.




Dave's Chinese juniper




















More displays to follow on Sunday.

Looks like you all had a great day.

Trees, displays and photos look superb - great stuff from Chris and the Dragon boys. John Pitt's raft is a cracker too.

Looking forward to seeing more photos.

Hi Paul

More pics tomorrow, weather is set fair and some more great trees to phto, just got back from showing Mal, Antony and John a new area for hawthorn and blackthorn, "the lost world".
I will get some sleep now and get ready for tomorrow.

Jerry thanks very much for posting the pics

Regards Chris

More pics from today
Here is Smithy,

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Dave Thomas and his big white pine
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Very nice overviews snoek catcher.
Caught any lately?

Peter

Gerwyn's tridant maple

Hope everyone has got home safely,I know Smithy phoned to say he had broken down, so we sent Lewis to the rescue hope everything was sorted

Regards Chris

Thankyou Peter, snook season is over for the moment but I had a few over the winter that is when the lakes were ice free

Regards Chris

Just one from the past season Peter

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Tight lines Peter

Regards Chris

Hi Chris , thanks yes home eventually. Looks like it was the starter motor. A good push from Lewis got me on my way. Thanks for a great day.

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Glad to hear it Smithy,
See you soon

Regards Chris

Nice litle fishy Chris

Peter

More trees from the weekend, first John Harris's showin larch

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Dave's black pine

Some lovely trees from the Dragon boys, as usual. You do good work down there lads, keep it up! I'm just gutted that I was very nearly there this weekend, sigh. Mind you, I'd rather have been anywhere than where I actually was, which was in the A&E Dept having an infected finger cut 'n' drained. Worse still, I'll have to go back today as it's filled up again. Lovely.

Hi Steve, sorry to hear about your hand hope its well soon.

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Always a great welcome in the hills and valleys of Wales,

Just wanted to thank Chris for putting on a great weekend of bonsai fun, despite sore muscles trying to find a way out of the lost world, but when we did, found this fantastic pub, best steak I've had for a long time.

Dragon are fortunate to have a great bunch of guys, and gals, very passionate about all aspects of bonsai,
and the friendship and willingness to help each other that runs through the club is what bonsai is all about.
And you can see from the pictures they have some wonderful bonsai between them.

Thanks to Jerry for his family's hospitality, and the eggs , you can't get fresher, or tastier, than moving the hen to collect breakfast.

P.S. the wife loves the tall viewing stone, thanks again Chris.

Hi John,

Always great to have you onboard, thanks for your fantastic input, all in all a brilliant weekend.

Regards Chris

Ah, Mr Ambassador, you are spoiling us with all these yamadori!

Is that a group of recently collected shohin Hawthorn I spy before me?

Hi Steve,

They may be recently collected showin haws!!!!!!!!!

Regards Chris

One or two you said! I count at least eleventeen there.

Welshman speak with forked tongue!

I can't wait to have a rummage round in the back of your yamadori section Chris. There must be stuff in there unseen by human eyes for years!

Hi Chris

Realy nice show and trees.
Yamadori section looks very interesting.
Pavel

Thank you Pavel
I am sure that Tony and Steve will see some great yamadori when they are with you.

Looking forward to Burrs already

Regards to you and your son and Meric

Chris