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Prunus spinosa in new pot by Luboš Škoda. In my opinion, the tree is getting good enough to receive the name. Since now its name is "Katharine". Flowers could open in the next few days, even if we are experiencing really cold weather.

Larix

We are living through times and I wish all of you good luck and health. For those in quarantine, I hope you will do fine. Being in self-isolation with my family I used this Saturday to finish winter protection of the trees. Nice weather and one shot of Becherovka was very helpful. Now all the trees are on the benches. I plan some minor repoting soon and hopefully a lot of wiring and editing stuff. I'm trying to convince myself it will be good to post as much as possible, I don't know if I will manage to stick to my plan but I try.

So after a tedious morning, I find some time to partially clean this Larix in Lubos Skoda pot and took a few pictures. You can see the tree has a lot of fresh needles popping out. It needs a lot of editing, maybe tomorrow. I will post the result.

Tilia cordata "Daria"

Linden doing good so far this year. A lot of growth which has to be reduced to allow light get to the inner crown to prevent dieback. For comparison, there are two pictures from the beggining of April.

beginning of May 2019

Early April 2019

Larix decidua

Larch freshly out of the winter storage. Now with temperatures attacking 20 °C for a couple of days spring is in full swing, which is both great, partly scary (late frost damage?) and terrible in one go. With such weather one can start repotting right away, it is great time to collect few trees (when? where to place them in an already crowded garden?), wire like half of the trees, a God knows what else.

How much I like this spring...

This larch needs editing, especially in the top right section, it has been guy wired whole year but its larch, you can keep doing it annually and it will bounce back soon after you remove wires. Honestly, taking into consideration there are zero wires on it right now, I'm quite happy.

Tilia cordata "Daria"

Seems like on Friday was the last day of long-lasting summer this year. It was hot weather since April and there were rarely days below 25°C, and probably a record number of days above 30°C. The foliage of the trees got its share of damage, but taking into consideration all circumstances it is not so bad at the end.

Om this linden I'm reworking inner part of the crown and it will take some time to look good again but it was necessary. There was nice moss cover of the soil but during the holiday I uncovered protecting mesh to allow more water to reach surface and birds did its job done.

Larix decidua

The second flush of growth this season, time to cut back. No burned needles yet so its good, but we are approaching tropical temperatures again, so if the tree is not supplied enough water part of the foliage will burn and eventually fall off.

Larix decidua

Today couple of guy wires helped to bring branches back to more desirable positions.

Larix decidua

Last month was really busy. In short, I collected 10 new trees, repotted up until yesterday 20 trees into new pots, and this larch is possibly smallest one. Sold four trees. Purchased 20 new pots...

Last night I was repotting hornbeam forest under artificial lights till late night. I barely remember when last time I was not going back to the house with clean hands, because I tell you, repotting trees alone especially larger ones, removing thick roots etc. is very messy bussiness, to be honest. I took minimum pictures in the process itself, no way to do it simultaneously and I was almost every day working in the dark.

Despite that, there was one evening when I was not dirty, took my camera and younger daughter to water the trees. Unfortunately, the light was rubbish, and due to lack of time no way to use a tripod. Larch had nice little needles, just popping out from the buds. When I tried to take the picture, there was always animal appearing at front of the tree. Check the last picture as proof. Looked like worm girl liked the new role of the photo model. Fortunately, a couple of shots went quite well, when I managed to hold daughter and animal with my left hand in sufficient distance.

That's the story for my friend Mimo. There is the story behind some of the pictures. Let me know in the comment section, about animals and other obstacles you have to fight when doing your bonsai.