NEW PENJING WITH PINUS SYLVESTRIS COMPRESSA


I bought and styled this tree last year and thanx to abundance of new buds I was able to repot it over the weekend and make a new penjing with fresh stones from a forest creek by the village of Smolnik where I drove on saturday just for them. (nearly 2 hours drive in total just to collect some stones from a creek - I´m nuts I think...)
Anyways, here are the results:

REPOTTING JUNIPERS AND SETTING UP MY BONSAI DISPLAY FOR NEW SEASON


Junipers that were styled last year have got their first pots - actual present from my mum who cannot stand to see my trees in front of the house in ugly wooden crates - thanx mum!!! :)
After that I was able to bring all of my trees to their designated spots for the season. It makes me happy and I spent most of the weekend just roaming around the yard and looking at them :)

My wife and daughter Bea posing with freshly repotted Juniper and enjoying the sun

Freshly repotted wisteria - literati - last year´s airlayer that was separated in the middle of summer and planted with just a few roots in a pot supported with wires. It grew a lot of new roots till autumn and is now able to support itself without wires thanx to nice compact and strong rootball. I am glad I didn´t wait till autumn with separating it as it had much more space in a pot to grow new roots.

Another juniper after repot and on a new spot - exchanged for wisteria that has been moved to the other side of house. While repotting this one I was finally able to move it around easily once out of a very big and heavy wooden crate and I noticed at least 2 new possible styling options that wouldn´t be hard to perform and would most likely make a much nicer tree. So maybe next year I will play with it again.

BUSY EASTER HOLIDAY


I have a confession to make.
I hate all of the christian holidays and the make believe bullshit ideas behind it.
I love not going to work thanks to them though.
But I think we should have bank holidays dedicated to great men who made something real and substantial for mankind.
And I don´t mean giving it HOPE.
I would love to celebrate Nietzsche´s day for example, dedicated to questioning mind and fighting bullshit, or Einstein´s day dedicated to pure genius. Elon´s day would be nice too and there are so many of great people who would deserve eternal celebration rather than celebrating religious nonsense.
So when my neighbours went to sit in church, I dressed in my work outfit and went to use the holiday the creative way.


I started with transplanting the "Mother with twins" onto a rock.

Naturally, I had to dress nicer for the photoshoot :D

I made a pic of recently transplanted blackthorn too.

A lot of small jobs have been done over the weekend, and the biggest one today before going back to work. I collected some 30 years old wisteria from my parent´s garden. It is mother of all my wisteria airlayers, it has been planted by my great grandmother and she had it from a cutting from a church garden - at least something nice came from that place after all those years of listening to crap from a priest´s mouth.

It had very few roots because the main root went deep down under the concrete fence, but from experience I know that they root strongly (like mad) so I am not worried.

NEW POT FOR JUNIPER

After a year and a half my urbandori juniper got it´s first pot designed and made by Ivet Mikešová of Atelier Cascada.