Maros Bonsai Blog

Trying to stay sane in the crazy world, challenging isn't it? Took inside dogwood yesterday. Found out quite a lot of small branches dried out during the winter. Nothing dramatical though. Did few cuts here and there, wired couple of branches. Now it looks good and ready to push the leaves.

Still, you can find sources of fun as well. Like I read recently ISIS is not recommending their members visiting European cities since they are not safe, you can't make this shit up.

As much as present times are hard, there are gems of human goodness. There are actors reading stories for a good night for the kids online for example. Or pianist playing live on Twitter every day at 7 PM (Igor Levit @igorpianist).

Humanity prevails. Stay safe.

Larix decidua

I took the tree inside yesterday and played with it while watching Monty Don doing gardening on TV. I can tell you only by watching the guy for hour is pure therapy. Working on our bonsai is definitely one of the best ways to spend free time now. I hope you all have enough trees to style and wire to work with.

Now, as promised tree on a couple of pictures after the minor editing. Few guy wires will hold branches in more desirable positions for quite some time. Since there was no need to make any massive shape changes guy wires seem to be more effective since they easily stay on the branches for much longer than traditional wiring.

I broke off one of the minor branches, was looking at the situation and came to the conclusion I must accept it. I had to be more patient, but I will train my patience for sure.
We have to be patient, do the right things and everything will be OK again.

Stay strong and healthy, we will make it.

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.