Few pictures and thoughts

Today I had a short walk in my garden I made few pictures. It was bit cold and rainy so no tripod, so pictures are bit blurry. Anyway, I took picture of neglected hawthorn flowers, I hope they will be all over the tree in couple of hours( or days) and I will make few adjustments to the tree a take pictures.

Cold and rainy weather is norm for few past weeks. We had short period of warm weather in March but since then it is just rubbish. I hope it will get better soon. But, point is I do not remember when I had situation when last of my trees woke up from dormancy in May. And this happend now. This is the picture of beech bud, opened today. 

It means two things. 

Firstly, we are experiencing coldest spring since I'm doing bonsai, I guess. 

Secondly, none of my trees died during this winter. Zero loses. If you want to know what I'm doing for trees as winter protection then go to posts from end of November and check it. Basically, nothing special, just covering them into sawdust and water them when it is very dry period during the winter. Nothing else. 

It seems I'm going to have cone on pinus sylvestris bonsai.I don't know if it is common or not, but I don't remember seeing one on pictures online. Maybe I have bad memory, or I'm not looking for them well. Truth is, as is quite obvious from my blog, I have close to none interest about pine bonsai. I know, I know, it is weird in bonsai world, but it is like it is. Maybe I just need to find out pine I will fall in love with yet. We will see. 

And last but not least, I made couple of pictures of Juniperus communis. I collected it as one of my firt trees. Since I'm not focusing my work on this kind of material I sold it couple of years ago. As it happens in life, my client who purchaswed it, is busy doing his job on other side of the planet, so tree is temporarily in my care. As you can see, it is doing fine. No styling yet. It is up to next artist. 

Fruits and buds

Hawthorn

Dogwood buds ready for next spring.

Sloe

Fresh spruce bud.

Mini apples.

Hawthorn flowers

Few spring pictures

Malus buds, flowers can emerge tomorrow.

Fraxinus

Quercus

Cornus

Tilia

Syringa 

Crataegus, flowers emerge soon

Acer, ants are here aphids will follow

Snow, snow, snow

We had some snowfall in previous days but today about 20 cm of snow fell down. This is good for stored trees. 

Morning impressions

 

Cornus mas No.2 slowly waking up

Big cornus mas is showing signs of life. It takes time but seams to be vital enough to make it.

Veľká drienka javí známky života a budí sa. Bude to ešte chvíľu trvať ale vyzerá byť dosť vitálna na to aby to zvládla.

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

Few spring details

Signs of sprig

As every spring I'm looking for signs that trees survived winter. To see any of this buds or flowers is great reward. I wonder what my neighbours thing if they see me walking in garden with this weird smile :)

Tak ako každú jar hľadám každé ráno na stromoch známku života. Vidieť otvárajúce sa puky alebo kvety je odmenou. Len si tak niekedy predstavaujem čo si asi myslia moji susedia keď ma vidia skoro ráno chodiť po záhrade s takým priblblým úsmevom :)

flowers on cornus mas/ kvety na drienke

needles appearing on larix/ ihličky sa objavujú na smrekovci

white buds on hawthorn/ biele puky na hlohu

carpinus orientalis swelling buds/ puky na hrabe orientalnom

First snow

Little Bear in my garden

Late Summer Meeting in Walters Garden

During Saturday my friend Martin and me visited Walters famous garden. We joint his late summer event. Very inspiring. Garden is fantastic, obviously makes not much sense to post pictures of trees, since Walter is doing this professionally.  Of course we have seen a lot of WP famous trees. We talked to interesting bonsai people from different countries.  Despite of cloudy and rainy weather visit exceeded our expectations. I could not resit to visit hornbeam which used to be mine. And came home with Carpinus orientalis traded from Walter.

Počas soboty sme s kamarátom Martinom navštívili záhradu Waltra Palla. Prišli sme sa pozrieť na jeho už 10 ročník otvorenej záhrady spojenej so zaujímavým programom. Záhrada bola fantastická, počasie komplikovalo fotenie, ale to vlastne nevadí, Walter to robí profesionálne a oveľa lepšie. Videli sme vačšinu slávnych Waltrových stromov. Pokecali sme so zaujímavými bonsaistami z iných krajín. Aj napriek oblačnému a daždivému počasiu návšteva prekročila naše očakávania. Samozrejme som nemohol odolať odfotiť sa s hrabom čo bol ešte nedávno môj. :) A domov som sa vrátil s C.orientalisom.