Busy time

Too much work and no time for taking serious pictures...PRUNING, PRUNING, PRUNING.
( I´m having a cup of coffee right now :)

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My place: As time goes by

This is maybe a little non-bonsai topic. Since we bought an old house in the summer of 2008, I try to arrange a good place for living of my little trees. As I renovate the old house, I cultivate my bonsai place. Here are some photos, as my bonsai corner grows.
Toto je trošku nebonsajová téma. Odkedy sme kúpili starý dom v lete 2008, snažím sa nájsť dobré miesto na život mojich malých stromov. Ako renovujeme dom, kultivujem aj môj bonsajový kútik. Tu je zopár fotiek, ako postupne rastie.

Summer 2008

Very first bonsai corner in April 2009. I started to build my collection and moved some trees from my parents garden.

April 2010.

October 2011.

2012

Demolition of old terrace floor in summer 2014.

Spring 2015

Overall pictures from the garage flat roof taken in April 2014 and in May 2015

Prunus mahaleb & Prunus Triloba in flower

Prunus mahaleb seedling flowers for the first time. What a pleasant surprise !
Mahalebka kvitne po prvý krát. Aké príjemné prekvapenie !

Prunus triloba - flowering almond - regularly in a pink bunch of flowers.

Kvitnúca mandľa s pravidelnou záplavou ružových kvetov.

See here: 

http://www.bonsaistrom.blogspot.sk/2013/04/happy-hour.html

http://www.bonsaistrom.blogspot.sk/2013/02/flowering-almond-fully-wired-tvarovana.html

http://www.bonsaistrom.blogspot.sk/2012/05/mandla-prunus-triloba-flowering-almond.html

Birch tree "PEPE" in my cloudy pot

This is the second pot that I made during winter. It was made for this birch, now in new fresh foliage.
Toto je druhá miska, ktorú som vyrobil cez zimu. Miska bola urobená pre túto brezu, teraz s novým čerstvým lístím.  

Inspirational roots

I don´t know if these are surface roots, or widen low part of the trunk, but I really like it. These trees are elms, growing on a little swampy area, near the stream in Bratislava, Horský park. Remarkable shapes, as sharp as blades :) Almost similar as one of the roots on my beech No.3 from previous post.
Neviem či sú toto povrchové korene, alebo rozširujúce sa spodné časti kmeňov, každopádne sa mi veľmi páčia. Sú to bresty, rastúce v močaristej pôde, blízko potôčika v Horskom parku v Bratislave. Obdivuhodné tvary, ostré ako čepele. Takmer také, ako jeden z koreňov na mojom buku č. 3 z predchádzajúceho príspevku.

Beech No.3 gets a new pot - Buk č.3 v novej miske

This hollow beech was re-potted into its first bonsai pot last week. It´s a hight quality chinese Yixing ceramics and I think it works very well. I had to reduce the roots to fit the tree in the pot, expecially the big root at the back side, as can be seen on picture. I hope it will grow strongly after this rather bold cut. Development from 2010 and 2012.
Minulý týždeň som presadil svoj bútlavý buk do prvej bonsajovej misky. Je to kvalitná čínska keramika z Yixingu a myslím že stromu pasuje veľmi dobre. Musel som celkom odvážne zredukovať jeden hrubý koreň na zadnej časti stromu, ako je vidno na fotke. Dúfam že strom bude naďalej poriadne rásť po tomto zásahu.
Vývoj od roku 2010 a 2012.

Front in spring 2015

Root cut at the back side of the tree.

Rez koreňa na zadnej strane stromu.

This is how I pruned the tree in spring 2013, to make it more compact.

Takto som zrezal strom na jar 2013, aby som vytvoril kompaktnejšiu korunu.

Summer 2014. Leto 2014

This was my quick virtual idea of the tree in the selected pot in 2013.

Moja virtuálna predstava stromu po presadení do zvolenej misky.

Field maple "Dustman" - Javor poľný "smetiar"

This is a new project of one of the most common deciduous trees of our countryside and forests. I call this maple "Dustman", because it was found on the illegal dumping of waste near the forest. The tree grows on old rusty iron waste, fragments of glass bottles and other trash. Excavation was therefore quite annoying and sad.  It was probably pruned hardly, because a big hollow section of the trunk can be seen. I dug it in spring 2014. Basic structure branches were selected in October 2014. This is how it looks now in spring.

Toto je nový projekt jedného z najbežnejších opadavých stromov nášho vidieka a lesov. Volám ho "smetiar" , pretože sme ho našli na skládke odpadu na kraji lesa, hneď za dedinou. Strom rástol na starom železe, úlomkoch skla a ďalšieho odpadu. Vykopávanie stromu bolo preto dosť nepríjemné a smutné. Pravdepodobne bol drasticky zrezaný, pretože na časti kmeňa je veľká dutina. Vykopal som ho na jar 2014, základná štruktúra konárov bola vybraná na jeseň 2014. Takto vyzerá dnes.

Summer 2014

Me, my older son, rusty garbage and field maple on the crime scene :)

Ja, starší syn, hrdzavý odpad a javor poľný na mieste činu.