Niwaki Blog: Jake’s take on cloud pruning, organic topiary and all things tree.

Just back from the APF forestry show at Cannock Chase. Lovely Scots pines in autumn light, and this rather nice bit of birch woodland. Not normally a fan of birch trees in the garden, they seem over used, but this was nice. Snapped on my iphone. Read More

Sorting through last year's pics, I came across this set, from a trip to Hakone. Nice pine, nice set of ladders, nice mountain. Mountain behind me: Pine behind me: Pine above me: Ladders beside me: Read More

Just been sent this great pic of an enormous Podocarpus macrophyllus in Kagoshima, Southern Japan, by Keith from Canada. It's a whopper. Read More

Command + shift + 3, that's the buttons I pressed for this screenshot from Google Earth, the link sent by Mark in the US. How he spotted this, I have no idea, but I suspect he has too much spare time. Take a walk down the suburbs of Kobe. Read More

Just clipped the wavey thuja hedge at Harvard farm. It separates the greenhouse area from the garden, so hides a fair bit of clutter. Last year it was cut back quite hard and we've been letting it grow back to redefine the waves. It's an overlpapping two-parter. Read More