Originally posted on gardenroutemeander:
Nestled between the Indian Ocean and the Out­eniqua and Tsitsikamma  Mountain Ranges, the Garden Route offers a diversity of breath- taking ecosystems. Featuring numerous national  parks, nature reserves, marine reserves, lakes, lagoons, rivers, wild life, beautiful beaches and little bays, the Garden Route  is truly a Garden of Eden’ and is named  for its scenic  beauty. This Garden of Eden’ forms part of the Cape Floral Region – a World Heritage Site conserving 8 500 species of Fynbos and indigenous vegetation unique to the region. http://www.gardenroutemeander.co.za/garden-route-sa.html Continue reading Garden Route South Africa

Originally posted on gardenroutemeander:
Birding in Tsitsikamma offers a variety in choice of habitat. There is the open shoreline as typified by the environment at Storms River Rest Camp. There is the more sheltered water ways of the Nature’s Valley Lagoon and the Groot River. There is the forest experience of the Tsitsikamma Forest. Then there is the mountain fynbos one can explore in the… Continue reading Birding in the Tsitsikamma Section – Garden Route National Park

Originally posted on Adam's Art and Bonsai Blog:
I would call this a dialogue but the tree doesn’t really talk back. Though it does “speak to me”. Just not in a way that I’ll admit, you see, I’m not ready for that “rest” home yet. Not willingly, at least. Sorry, today’s potato, er…tree. This is, or was, a root cutting. Much like this tree… Continue reading The potato soliloquy: willow leaf ficus

Originally posted on Adam's Art and Bonsai Blog:
……and we join this post already in progress: I’m in Cincinatti with Evan, current president of the BSGC. Mid June. Day three of my trip. Doing some BS with the Prez of the BS of Greater Cincy and talking some BS, too. This is the debris from removing the first root. It was cutting badly into… Continue reading Refining a ficus salicaria (formerly nerifolia,salicifolia, et al) The saga of the Willowleafianus

Originally posted on Adam's Art and Bonsai Blog:
I’m starting small. How’s this? I’m outside and working on trees again. Well, one small tree, to begin with. It’s a willow leaf ficus (ficus salicaria or nerifolia, salicaria etc..) I’ve had for about ten years or so. When I got it it had maybe half the girth it does now. I need to remove the… Continue reading A willow leaf ficus to help me get back into the game

Originally posted on shanemartinbonsai:
DECEMBER 13th 2013 Here is a little shohin Port Jackson fig styled this summer from a piece of 6inch nursery stock purchased back in 2011. Pre Styling….root work completed. Defoliated, wired out, and styled. Continue reading Shohin Port Jackson Fig

Originally posted on shanemartinbonsai:
Here is a new fig which my beloved family purchased for me for Christmas. It is a Ficus Superba, somewhere between 25 and 30 years old, and a completely new variety of ficus for me. In my part of the world it is semi deciduous as well. The new foliage comes through this deep coppery brown with a super shiny leaf.… Continue reading Ficus Surperba var. henneana

Originally posted on shanemartinbonsai:
February 2013 Growin’ like mad ? April 10th 2013wire removed and before light trim ? After trim and a few tweeks. Both lower branches pulled down. October 2012 Ficus Nerifolia Large I got this beautiful Ficus Nerifolia off this really good bloke up on the Sunshine Coast earlier this year , and have been staring at it daily and wondering just which… Continue reading Ficus Nerifolia Semi Cascade

Originally posted on shanemartinbonsai:
Nov-2012 Ficus Nerifolia Willow Leaf Fig Shohin 23/4/12 1/8/12 First bonsai pot 30/8/12 Update pic 18th Oct 2012 Update pic Nov 2nd 2012 defoliated and selective pruning Nov 5th 2012 2/11/12 This little one is powering at the moment. Currently trying to keep the top pinched in order to get some length and bulk into the lower primary branches. There’s a… Continue reading Ficus Nerifolia – Willow Leaf Fig Shohin