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THE LATEST GOINGS-ON AT WILLOWBOG
Final Bonsai Chat.
This Saturday coming, February 4th will be the final Bonsai Chat community day here at Willowbog Bonsai. It is simply no longer viable to set aside the studio for an event not supported in any meaningful way. The photo shows an earlier Chat with a typical turnout of...
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Jim McCurrach, a great gentleman of UK bonsai.
It was with very great sadness that we heard yesterday of the death of Jim McCurrach on Sunday 15th Jan. He was without doubt one of the nicest men we knew ! Never a bad word said about anyone. He taught a number of workshops here at the nursery in the first decade of...
Holiday season closures.
Willowbog Bonsai will be closed on the 24th and 25th and the 31st December and the 1st of January. We will open again for Bonsai Chat on the first Saturday of the new year which will be 7th January. Best wishes to all for the festive season.
A sad duty.
It is my sad duty to report that earlier today Penelope Axon lost her short lived fight against cancer. Penny, as we all knew her, was a true Willowbogger, supporting many of the workshops here at the nursery. Here she is working away on a pine bonsai. Penny had been...
Workshop schedule
The full workshop schedule up to the end of this year is now on the Workshop page of the Willowbog Bonsai web site.
Past make a pot workshop
Would those folk who participated in the Make a pot workshop in March of this year please get in touch as we have the pots here at last to be collected. Thanks
Another few bonsai added online.
We added another of the newly acquired bonsai to the web shop last night. One of several cascade or half cascade cotoneasters for sale. Nicely done and of some age. This a close up of the trunk on the tree shown above. Just coming into flower. This one incorporates a...
New stock
Following a period when tree stocks had fallen a bit lower than normal we are now back to reasonable levels due to some recent purchase. I have started to get some of the new bonsai uploaded to the Willowbog Bonsai web shop. We purchased quite a number of bonsai from...
Rare update from Willowbog Bonsai
It is a very long time since I wrote anything for this blog about happenings at the nursery. I guess a variety of reasons too boring to go into now are behind it. Nevertheless, Willowbog Bonsai continues to flourish here in the back woods of Northumberland. Workshops...
Seasonal closure
Willowbog Bonsai will be closed from 4.00pm Sunday 19th December until Saturday 8th January at 10.00am. Seasonal greetings to all.
The passing of Tony Suthern
It is with great regret that we report the death on Tony Suthern from Hartlepool. Tony was taken ill at home a few days ago and died today in hospital. Tony was a regular at our Bonsai Chat get togethers and always showed a keen interest in bonsai around the nursery....
