Blooming Day at Cascavelle

There will be a flower show at Cascavelle ( Flic-en-flac, Mauritius) this weekend : Blooming Day at Cascavelle ( 01 Aug as from 10:00 )
The orchid society will be displaying orchids as well as selling orchids there.

There will also be an ikebana display/section.

In addition Ashiq Boyjoo will be selling his hand made pots during the event.

I will be participating but not selling.
I'll display various trees in my collection, from prebonsai in late development stages to prebonsai in early development stages.

I will also be doing two introductory course on bonsai.
One from 11:00 - 12:00 & 14:00 -15:00 : Cours d'introduction sur les concepts de base de bonsaï
This should cover what is a bonsai, basic bonsai structures and basic stages in bonsai development.

The contents will be the same in both cases, just doing two to be able to reach a wider public.

Feel free to come over and say hi!

Preparing some trees for an expo in a few weeks

In September there will be this year's Orchid Society of Mauritius's show.

Some of our bonsai members will be exposing their trees during there on the last day of that show.
I'm planning to display several trees and started prepare them two months beforehand.

Mame Cuphea
This little guy was entered in the last Ryuga 2013 online competition, together with a ficus and a miniature rose.
The link is here : Cuphea hyssopifolia false heather

At the end of last year it got badly hit by a heat wave. It loss its main leader and also several primary ramification structures.
Now I need to rebuild the whole ramification structures as well as rework the deadwoods.

Mame Ligustrum

This is a follow up on the ligustrum-003-progression
There has been some more growth in between and some wiring to reposition the various branches.
Right now its entering a new growth cycle and creating several buds. Some are already starting to develop.

If I leave it as it is, the stronger apical areas will get most of the growth and the inner structures will stay mostly underdevelopped.
So to encourage the tree to get new growth all over the place ( strong and weak areas ) I went ahead and fully defoliated the lil guy.
I'm also aiming to get a new set of smaller leaves for the September expo.
In a few weeks I'm expecting to get lots of smaller leaves all over the place.

I also went along a treated the deadwood with some lime sulphur.
In a few weeks later I'll treat it with some wood hardener.

Malpighia coccigera

Also did a quick cleanup on this singapore holly and added some rougth guy wires to reposition some branches.