Collecting season started

 

Tools are ready so I can start collecting season 2012. Together with Hungarian friends from Shohinmaffia and Moravian group Leafbrothers we spent nice time collecting crategus and cornus last week...

...some trees are bigger than one could imagine, fortunately this was not mine :)...

...and not only bigger but much heavier :)...

...one of my new cornus already potted, (btw pot diameter is 50cm)...

...my 4 trophies from one day trip, thanks Istvan :)

Crataegus monogyna No.4

Collected about month ago. Doing fine. It will be nice little tree.

Vykopaný asi pred mesiacom. Má sa dobre. Bude to pekný malý stromček.

My little helper with the tree/ Môj malý pomocník a strom

Spring pictures

Spring is boosting. Happy time for bonsaist, right? Every morning and evening when you go to your garden new surprise is there. I'm personally happy than all trees survived winter. Also last year yamadori's. Only beeches still sleep, they will wake up (if so) in few weeks time. Especially I'm glad for summer dug oaks are woken up. Today another small surprise, hawthorn yamadori which is 2 years in pot without any work on it will flower soon :).

Jar zrýchľuje. Šťastné obdobie každého bonsaistu, však? Každé ráno a večer keď idem do záhrady je tam nové malé prekvapenie. Ja som zvlášť rád, že všetky stromy prežili zimu. Aj minuloročné yamadori prežili. Iba buky ešte spia, na tie musím počkať ešte pár týždňov(ak sa vôbec zobudia). Zvlášť rád som, že sa prebudili duby kopané minulé leto. A dnes som zistil, že yamadori hloh čo mám v miske  2 roky  bude čochvíľa kvitnúť :)

yamadori hawthorn/hloh collected in spring 2010

Yamadori Birch/Breza collected in spring 2010

future flowers on howthorn/ budúci kvet na hlohu

Oak collected last summer doing fine/ dub kopaný minulé leto sa prebúdza

Second oak from last summer dig is growing/ Aj druhý dub z minulého leta sa budí

New Crataegus monogyna

Crataegus monogyna 2.

Toto je hloh vykopaný na jar tohto roku. Konicita nič moc ale páči sa mi ako sú tie kmene prepletené ako hady :) Na to do akej malej misky som ho zasadil sa mu darí najlepšie z mojich hlohov. Je asi 1m vysoký a každý kmeň má asi 10cm priemer.

This is hawthorn from spring this year. Tapering is not good but I like "snake" growth of trunks. :) It is doing the best of my howthorns if I consider also it is planted in rather small pot. It is about 1m high and each trunk is about 10cm wide at base.

Crataegus monogyna 1.

Tento hloh je prvý, ktorý som kopal tento rok. Myslel som si že je to s hlohmi jednoduché, pretože na webe Harryho Haringtona som čítal pár článkov, kde sa opisovalo prijatie hlohov s takmer žiadnymi koreňmi. Na moje prekvapenie tento môj hloh sa správal divne. Na jar vyrašili listy, ale ostali malé a strom prestal úplne rásť. Postupne, v priebehu pár mesiacov listy sčerneli a strom vyzeral, že to má za sebou. Už som bol pripravený napísať ďalší RIP blog. Na moje prekvapenie ale pred týždňom, keď už na ňom nebol ani jeden zelený lístok, tak vyrašili nové puky na starom dreve. Zdá sa, že to chalan ešte nechce vzdať. Držím mu palce. Uvidíme do jesene a na jar sa budeme modliť.

PS. skúšal som ho zachrániť tým, že som ho neprestal polievať a hnojiť. A pár krát som mu do vody pridal aj SuperThrive. (kúpil som ho pred tým, ako som čítal článok Willa Heatha. Či tie puky vyhnal kvôli superthrivu to netuším. Ale superthrive má určite prsty v lesných jahodách, ktoré v boxe v priebehu 3 mesiacov vyrástli, zakvitli a zarodili. :)

This is the first hawthorn I dig out this year. I thought its easy with them since I read few articles on web of Harry Harrington where caught up hawthorns will very little roots. Surprisingly for me hawthorns behave quite strangely. In late spring leaves sprouted and than it stop its growth. During next months all leaves turned black and dry out. Tree looked like it is gone. I was ready to write another RIP blog . Than about week ago tree surprised me again. New buds sprouted on old wood and it seems that my pal do not want to give it up. I cross my fingers. I will see what next weeks till end of autumn will bring and than in spring I will pray.

PS. I tried to save him with regular watering and feeding. And few times I add into water SuperThrive (I bought it before I read article of Will Heath about bonsai myths. If Superthrive helped these new buds to sprout I do not know. But I'm sure Superthrive is responsible for new strawberries growing in box during last 3 months from nothing, they grown, flower and fruit- very fast. :)