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Field maple #1

March 22, 2014, 10:19 am
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Field maple,, Acer campestre, pot by Josef Mairhofer.


 
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new pots for two euonyymus

March 22, 2014, 10:23 am
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Two burning bush, Euonymus europea, new pots by Rolf Hitz and Milan Klika.

 
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Japanese maple #11

March 22, 2014, 11:51 pm
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Japanese maple, Acer palmatum, pot by Peter Krebs.

 
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Trident maple #9

March 22, 2014, 11:56 pm
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Trident maple, Acer burgerianum, pot China, the crown is still too samll, it will become much larger.

 
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Oriental hornbeam #9

March 23, 2014, 2:06 am
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Oriental hornbeam, Carpinus orientalis, collected in Croatia in 2010, in Chinese bonsai pot finally.

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Japanese maple #1

March 23, 2014, 8:21 am
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Japanese maple, Acer palmatum, pot by Derek Aspinall. Many will remember the first image of Augst 2013. Some thought that I was nuts to repot such a maple in August!! and then - how could one cut the root ball of such a tree with a power saw?? Anyway, see the tree in November and now in March. Nuts? mhm

 
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European hornbeam #9

March 23, 2014, 8:29 am
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European hornbeam, Carpinus betulus, pot by Dieter Schunta. The first image shows the late frost in April 2012. Subsequently quite a few of the trees in the forst became sick and died eventually. Recently I have filled the forest again with 20 new trees. Now I hope it will look as nice as it used to in a couple of years when the new trees will appear mature.

 
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last snow this year - I hope

March 24, 2014, 12:56 am
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This is not as bad as it looks. The temperatures are just at freezing and things start to melt already. Tomrrow there will not be snow anymore. Two years ago on the same occasion I lost a few trees. But then tempertures went down to minus 8 centigrade. I hope that this was it for this winter, fingers crossed.

 
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WOODSTOCK VII last call - trees have arrived

March 24, 2014, 10:59 pm
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About 400 new trees have arrived in Harrrisburg. They will be up for pre-sale starting Friday, March 28. Still some seats for the seminar available. Call Jim Doyle!

Woodstock VII will take place from April 4 to April 6, 2014 at Natures Way Nursery in Harrisburg, Pa. This is part of the International Bonsai Academy.

The program is similar to the winter academy. We always do whatever can and should be done at the time of the year. In spring, of course, we will do a lot of repotting. We will also do more wiring than in winter.

For the workshops you can bring your own trees and/or can also work with collected trees from the nursery. Yes, that's right. We will let  you loose on collected trees that you don't have to purchase. You can though.

There are already around 400 trees available now. At the end of March 2014 there will be almost 400 more. Of these new trees around 250 will be collected trees again, mainly Engelmann spruce of all sizes, ponderosa pines Rocky Mountain Junipers, limber pines, Douglas firs and others. This will then be more than 600 very good collected trees available.  I am not aware whether there is a nursery in all of America which has such a lot of quality collected stuff. East of the Rocky Mountains Nature's Way Nursery is THE source for quality collected trees.The price range is from 45 upwards. The majority is priced in the range of 50 to 400. There will also be more than 100 deciduous nursery trees: European larch, Japanese larch, trident maples, Japanese maples, field maples, French maples, stewartia, bald cypress and others. All these nursery trees have very good nebari, good taper and ramification. They are all medium size and ready for styling. The price range is typically from 200 to 300.

In addition we already have fixed the next 'Winter with Walter and Jim' for December 5 to 7, 2014. The program is the same as in 2013.

The big Rocky Mountain juniper will be styled by Mauro Stemberger as a special event on April 18 and 19, 2014. Don't miss this one!

Enrollments have already begun for all events. Secure your seat and call Jim Doyle now:

Call Nature's Way Nursery (Jim Doyle) for more information or signing in
(717)545-4555
natureswaybonsai@comcast.net
or natureswaybonsai@gmail.com
Please read the website for class information: www.natureswaybonsai.com

If you want them to mail a schedule let them know your mailing address.

In both events it will be possible to participate as

-full member three days
-full member one or two days
-silent observer for a fee for one to three days ( this is specially recommend for beginners and those who don't feel that they want to actually work on trees)
-lurkers for free for 20 to 30 minutes to see what's going on and to decide whether you want to participate immediately or alter

You have the chance to see and purchase exquisite collected American material. This is true for everyone. You don't need to be part of the programs. There will be a special discount just on these days.

I look forward to see you there.
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Prunus #5 new pot

March 26, 2014, 5:59 am
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Sloe, Black Thorn, Prunus sopinosa, collected in Germany in 1993, new pot by Klaudia Meyer-Woestefeld.

 
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Oriental hornbeam #2 spring is here

March 26, 2014, 9:01 am
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Oriental hornbeam, Carpinus orientalis, collected in Croatia in 2010, pot by Petra Tomlinson.

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Oriental hornbeam #23 spring is here

March 26, 2014, 9:06 am
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Oriental hornbeam, Carpinus orientalis, collected in Croatia in 2010, pot China.

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dogwood #1 in bloom

March 27, 2014, 8:04 am
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Flowering dogwood, Cornus mas, collected in Hungary in 2002, now in bloom.

 

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Japanese yew #2 redesigned

March 27, 2014, 8:25 am
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Japanese yew, Taxus cuspidata, imported from Japan in 2013. I acquired the tree in may 2013 and started to redesign immediately. I somehow felt that it was a good tree, but not really great. to me it was too nice, too symmetrical, too much man-made, too much bonsai and too little tree, too little soul, more form than soul, too traditional. Anyway I decided recently to drastically change the style: rotate the tree one hour clockwise, tilt it 10° to the left, cut out a few branches so one can see the interesting trunk and deadwood, cut some long branches on the right, bring down the right main branch and make a move to the left, on the left everything long, new pot. The result is clearly a different tree, a tree which does not want to be a standard bonsai, more of a tree then a bonsai, it is in the Fairy Tale Bonsai Style. The new pot is by Walter Venne form Germany. When I showed this work on the German Forum I got the remarks that the tree was great, but the pot was not liked - it 'looks like a rusty iron box'. my response was 'good description, that's exactly what it is supposed to look like. We might get used to it.'

 

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Bonsai convention in Poland, May 2014

March 27, 2014, 10:46 am
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European larch #10

March 29, 2014, 9:31 am
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European larch, Larix decidua, collected in Austria in 1993, pot by Peter Krebs.

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wild cherry avaiable

March 29, 2014, 9:36 am
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Wild cherry, Pruus mahaleb, collected in Germany in 1987, very old tree, will have white flowers. available for trade or sale, 50 cm high.


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European hawthorn #6

March 29, 2014, 9:44 am
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European hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna, collected in Croatia in 2009, in training pot. This tree already was a good bonsai. But then last year it got fire blight and half the tree died. I had almosot given up the whole thing. Now I htook another close look. And it seeems fine. The hawthorn will look nice pretty soon again. Ufortunateyl in our area it might wll bet fire blight again, which is a fungus spread by bees. There is no remedy. The part of the tree that has got it will die. I covered the rest with lots of fungicide and it worked.
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Horst Krekeler R.I.P

March 30, 2014, 8:23 am
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In the 1980ies to 90ies Horst stood for bonsai in Germany. The bonsai scene in Germany definitely would not be the same without him. Horst was and excellent teacher and had thousands of student over the years. He acted internationally, being in the USA often in the 90ies and to many other places in the world. Horst was quite a character, a very nice and gentle man. We will not forget him.
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Forsythia #1

April 10, 2014, 10:14 am
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Forsythia, from a garden tree, pot by Marco Merschel.

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