Acer negundo No.2 - Javorovec jaseňolistý č. 2

I have got quite unusual maple trunk. I dig it in autumn 2013 - check this post. I have never ever seen a bonsai with such bumped trunk. This bumps, or knots, are probably tumors, which can be caused by mechanical damage, insect, or fungal and bacteria disease. Well, no bonsai like this, but never mind, I´m going to have one :). I saw many trees, or let´s say the whole forest with bumps, on my walks in Carpatian mountains. Trees with this strange knots in this forest were mostly acacias (Robinia pseudoacacia), maples (Acer pseudoplatanus) and Prunus species. 

My tree is circa 65-70 cm tall, and has nice old character knots and natural uro in upper part of the trunk. It grew in swampy area near the river Danube, not in this strange Carpatian forest. I transplanted it in smaller plastic container a week ago and used guide wires for some branches...

Another species with massive tumor is this birch tree in arboretum Tesárske Mlyňany.

Accent plant: Snowdrop

New pots - Nové misky

New pots #5, 6, 7, 8 were made the same way as my first - see here. I made the clay body of the pots and my friend glazed and fired them.

The biggest one - rectangle 42x35 cm

Oval cca 25x18 cm

 Two colorful shohin pots cca 15x10 cm

Norway spruce from scratch - Picea abies #01 - Smrek od nuly

This is my first Norway spruce, digged from my mother in low´s  garden, probably in spring 2010 or 2011. It was on future building site and I decided to keep it. It was really terrible material. 

I had no spruce at that time and I thought it would be a good learning material for me. I put it in the plastic tub and immediately cut one of the two equal trunks.

  
This is the first picture from spring 2012.

Inicial styling was done in our Danubius bonsai club meeting in august 2012. I left only 3 living branches and bent them into new position...

        

I let it grow freely next season. In september 2013 I transplanted the tree into smaller training pot with better substrate. I completely bare-rooted the tree and wash off the rest of old substrate. Well, this was rather silly idea, but the tree responded well and start to grow. I´m a lucky newbie :)

 

This is a picture from November 2014 with a little more matured tree. The left low branch, right branch and the appex were just better fixed in new position.



Another club meeting took place in the summer of 2015. Spruce was slightly restyled. I turned the lowest branch to jin and rewired the tree. Now after 5 years it starts to look like a tree, at least in my eyes.

      
    
Last pictures from January 2016.

Euonymus raft fruits

Beech forest

Several beech seeds collected in spring 2014

Young beech trees in october 2015

Golden beeches on the last walk in Carpathians

Shohin Field Elm

I´m quite happy with this little tree. I should completely wire it to get branches more natural.
Branch structure is getting better and the overal look of the tree is fine. Scar after the cut is healing nicely. I love this pot made by austrian potter Herbert Lober (habati).

Yellow leaves in autumn 2014.

October 2013

Spring repotting after airlayering in march 2013

First new root in 08/ 2012

Airlayering 06/2012