Repotting the Azalea

For now, I chose a flatter training pot. It´s staying in it till the progression is getting more advanced.

Repotting the Taxus

This taxus comes also from Wolfgang Käflein. I bought it in February 2009.

Repotting Dave´s Azalea

Dave bought the Aza from Jürg Rufer in August 2009. With this nice pot, he absolutely hit the mark!

Repotting Dave´s Yamadori Larch

For now, Dave decided to pot his larch into a tokoname training bowl, until he finds a suitable / dignified bowl.

Repotting the fat Hornbeam

That´s for sure ... without my father´s help I would have probably broken my back!

Repotting the wild Cherry

That´s the new cherry after repotting. I removed the old substrate (sand and gravel) and planted the tree into a mixture of fibotherm, peat, akadama and pumice.

Visiting the Yamadori King

Hi folks,

this week my friend Harry and I went to Wolfgang Käflein in Neidelsbach, Germany. It´s always a highlight going back to his terrific yamadori garden!





This time I decided to take 3 of my own yamadoris (a knotted mugo pine, scots pine, larch) for exchange.




Pretty soon I saw a huge hornbeam and I asked Wolfgang after the tree´s condition (It had a lot of rotten wood though.) So he took the tree out of the pot and showed us the healthy root system with the amazing nebari! He also instructed us about the rotten and the intact parts of the trunk.
Before we knew what was happening, he already took his chainsaw and started to massacre the tree. Oh my god - what a sight!!! Wood shavings were flying around and the chainsaw was smoking as hell! He saw out a big part of the rotten wood and started to hollow the trunk.
Well, I decided to take the tree with me.










There´s nothing better than ambling through this garden in the warm spring weather ...












The huge elm with the outstanding nebari. Perhaps on the picture it doesn´t look like it ... but the tree is enormously big an FAAAAAt!




A very nice hornbeam with great potential (front- and backside):








Wolfgang came occasionally to us, sat down and told us a few stories about his yamadori experiences and adventures. It´s always interesting to listen!




















There is a big number of excellent hawthorns to find!








Harry decided for this beauty:










Some stunning field maples:








His Majesty!



So finally it was time to say goodbye. The trees (2 hornbeams, a field maple and a wild cherry) came with us and we drove home to Austria :)










That was definitely not the last visit, that´s for sure!!!