Fagus Sylvatica No. 1 Update

My old lady is developing gooood!

Little Azalea Update

So finally the smallest of my azaleas is the first one in blossom.

The hot Box

This is my collection with mountain flowers. I guess next spring is gonna be the right time to tansplant them into some accent pots.

Both Fagus Yamadoris doing fine

I think that both trees are over the worst! First fagus was collected on 03.04.2010 and second fagus on 14.05.2010.

Balkan-Monkeys dancing "Kolo"

Huge Fagus Forest

After all, the monster found the way to our garden :) The digging, transporting and transplanting-work took up the whole day!

The measures of the root bale were 1 m x 60 cm. Man, it was so pretty hard to find such a jumbo container! I´ve been in 2 tree nurseries and 4 garden centers till i found the right box.

For this tree, I combined the soil-components as follows:

25 lt. expanded clay for drainage
4 bags akadama
2 bags kiryu
60 lt. fibotherm
25 lt. potting soil
and a little bit mykorrhiza

Scouting with my Dad

Today we went up to search for some mugo pines and somehow it came totally different. I guess it´s Murphy´s law - instead of pines, we found some beeches. Get an eyeful of this!


The way up to the yamadori paradise :D












This was the next possible candidate we have found.










That´s the HAMMER! I find that this beech is almost finished. The only thing what this tree needs is a nice bowl and the final touch. That´s yamadori for lazy monkeys ;)

Arcobonsai / The Town

Few impressions from Arco ... I just love this town!

Arcobonsai / The Exhibition

Here are the super shots of the exhibited solitaires:











This mugo pine was my peronal favorite of them all: