Carpinus orinentalis No.1

This is oriental hornbeam which was part of trade with Walter Pall in 2010. One of my trees traveled with WP to his garden from his workshop in Slovakia and during my trip on Late summer meeting this oriental hornbeam traveled back to my garden.

It is good species and horticulturaly it seems to be fine for our climate, it survived successfully 2 winters in my place already and conditions was harsh, temperatures fell below -20°C in both winters.  Tree is growing nicely, creating nice little leaves. From design point of view this particular tree is not easy for me. Fortunately Walter helped me with it when I was making decisions about basic structures in sumer 2011 during his visit at my place in Spring 2011. Some branches where then shorten and clearly unnecessary parts where removed. During this winter tree was wired almost completely. It is now growing happily so it was time today to cutback this year growth. Tree was than feed with dose of Osmocote and with bat guano.

Tento stromček je Cartpinus orientalis a dostal sa ku mne od Waltera Palla v roku 2010. Vtedy sa jeden z mojích  hrabov vrátil spolu s WP do jeho záhrady z akcie ktorá sa u nás konala a tento orientalis zasa cestoval so mnou z Waltrovej záhrady keď sme sa boli pozrieť na Late summer meeting.

Carpinus orientalis sa z pestovateľského hľadiska zatiaľ ukazuje ako dobrý druh. U mňa v záhrade prežil zazimovaný pod pilinami dve zimy kedy teploty padli pod -20°C. Strom rastie pekne a vytvára krásne malé lístky a jemné konáriky. Čo sa týka tvarovania tohto konkrétneho stromu tak to pre mňa nie je celkom jednoduché. Našťastie mi s ním pomohol Walter keď bol na návšteve minulého roku. Vtedy sme skrátili niektoré konáre a tie úplne zbytočné sa odstránili. Počas zimy som strom takmer celý nadrôtoval a tento víkend som ostrihal tohtoročné konáriky ktoré už boli príliš dlhé. Keď už som ho mal pod rukami tak som ho nahnojil dávkou Osmocote a netopierím guánom.

5/2012

5/2012 with my lovely helper / máj 2012 spolu s mojou pomocníčkou

6/2011

6/2011

8/2010

8/2010

8/2010

8/2010 just after arrival from Walters garden/ August 2010 po prinesení od Waltra

Bat guano from my catholic friends who can take me to church towers/ Netopierie guano od mojich katolíckych priateľov ktorý ma pustili do kostolnej veže

Quercus pubescens No.4

Hornbeam forest

This tree is in my garden from spring 2009. It was repotted in spring last year into concrete training pot made by my friend Vincent Vadovský. During this winter, in December 2011 it was wired completely. It was quite a lot of wiring, despite ramification is far from being good. 

Tento hrabový trs je v mojej záhrade od jari 2009 kedy som ho doniesol domov počas mojej prvej kopacej sezóny. V jari 2011 bol presadený zo škaredej drevenej krabice do peknej tréningovej betónovej misky vyrobenej mojím kamarátom Vincenom Vadovským. Počas tejto zimy, v decembri 2011 som ho kompletne nadrôtoval. Na to že štruktúra koruny je ďaleko od toho aby bola dobrá tak to bolo celkom dosť drôtovania.

April 2012

in March 2012 after taking out from winter storage, size comparison with my two assistants

March 2009, just after collecting

Cornus mas No.1

I made few pictures of my first cornus. It looks very healthy and it is producing a lot of buds in the crown so I hope it will help to improve ramification this season. Growth just above nebari is there just as trial to make few new rots this season to improve nebari.

Dnes som urobil pár fotiek môjej pervej drienky. Vyzerá túto jar veľmi zdravo a vytvára mnoho pukov na starom dreve takže to by v tejto sezóne mohlo pomôcť so zahustením koruny. Tie malé konáriky hneď nad koreňmi sa pokúsim nejako potopiť tento rok a vytvoriť z nich nové korene aby sa vylepšilo nebari.

Older posts, stršie príspevky o strome: http://belanmaros.blogspot.com/2011/08/cornus-mas-no1.html

Birch No.1 in leaf

Birch No.1

This is my one and only Birch so far. It was collected exactly 2 years ago in March 2010. During this weekend it was potted into nice pot from Juraj Homola. It was potted in almost pure zeolith 2.5-5mm as you can see on one of pictures it created enormous amount of fiber roots. It has long way to go but I like it a lot already.

Toto je moja zatiaľ jediná breza. Bola vyhrabaná z lomu presne pred 2 rokmi v marci 2010. Tento víkend som sa rozhodol ju presadiť do novej misky od Juraja Homolu. Od počiatku bol stromček zasadený v takmer čistom zeolite frakcie 2,5-5mm a tak aj ostal. Na jednej z fotiek je vidieť aké množstvo jemných koreňov strom dokázal vytvoriť len za tak krátke obdobie. Stromček je ďaleko od finálnej podoby ale už teraz sa mi veľmi páči. 

size comparison with my daughter

fine root development after 2 years in zeolit/ vývoj jemných koreňov za 2 roky v zeolite

March 2010

Juniperus communis No.3 in new pot

During weekend I potted juniper in new temporary pot from Vincent Vadovsky made of concrete. Tree was collected in 2009. Nothing dramatic has been done so far, only shortening long branches for bringing green closer to the trunk.

in new pot, in mix of zeolith and Terramol

this weekend before repotting

September 2010

Summer 2009

End of winter protection

Today was warm and sunny day. Just about time to end up winter protection. Trees started to swell buds, one cornus is in flower already, larix is showing green needles. Best time of year of bonsai amateur is here. From now on every day something new will appear in garden.

Dnes bol teplý a slnečný deň, výborná príležitosť zrušiť zimovanie stromov a dať ich opäť na police. Bolo načase, puky sa nalievajú, drienka už zakvitla, smrekovce začínajú ukazovať zelené ihličie.  Pre pestovateľa bonsai začína najkrajšie obdobie roka, keď každý deň objaví na záhrade niečo nové. 

afternoon/popoludní

these are too heavy to lift in one person/ tieto sú na jedného moc ťažké, tak ostanú zatiaľ kde sú

larix turning green/ smrekovec sa začína zelenať

in the morning/ ráno

 

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 :)

Carpinus betulus No.11

Tree from head of my blog after taking out from winter shelter. My lovely  daughter as helper of course :)