Month: April 2011

  • New 360 Cork Bark Elm

    Following on from our Field grown theme today, I thought I would post this 360 flash image of a Cork Bark Elm that has been field grown. It’s been grown from a cutting and planted in open ground for 7 seven years. 2011 is it’s 3rd year out of the ground and in training. The…

  • New Video – Field Growing Bonsai

    After the success of the Bonsai School Series I have had a look through some other bits and pieces and decided to put together a clip showing the garden of one of our members. When I looked at the stats for this website, Josh’s profile is one of the most popular pages.  I then remembered…

  • Month for Malus

    This is the month for all those Malus to flower. Here are a few crab apples and a few close ups of those beautiful flowers.

  • Tonight’s NIBS Meeting

    About 20 of our members met up tonight from across N.Ireland. From Dromore, Lurgan, Jonesborough, Holywood, Ards, Belfast, Bryansford, and even one from Dublin, but he was late :-) It was a busy night with a lot of trees being worked on. A repotting of a Ficus that was in dire need was one of…

  • April Club Meeting this Friday

    Another month has flown in and we are back around to our monthly club meeting  this Friday 8th April at the Cregagh Youth & Community Centre, Belfast. All our meeting are ‘hands on’ workshops. We meet at 8pm, everyone welcome.