A Crataegus Story

hansvanmeer

This is a good point that needs to be explained!
It is allways better to save as mutch from the rootbal as posible, especialy whit evergreen trees!!!!
But trees that lose there foliage are dormand when their been collected and there fore mutch more tolerand than evergreens! when they come alive again in early spring, they whil make alot of new small roots on pruned roots, just like they do above ground with lots of buds on pruned branches!
In case of the collecting of this howthorn, there just arend any more roots on the tree! Because there hardly is any soil in between all those rocks!
Like with all collected trees the afther care is just as importend for the tree to servive.
Best wishes ,
Hans van Meer.

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mgc

And therein, it seems to me, lies the Key...: Educated and strategic, balanced root and branch pruning-boldness, by plant genus. The operative word being "boldness".

There are many who would have been hard-pressed to have been as bold as what we have seen here.

Thanks Again Hans,

Mike

salt

Inspiring and educational story, thanks for sharing!

This really show the importance of keeping a record and taking photos regularly!

hansvanmeer

Hi again,
Remember the above statement abouth the thick back root that i had to remove?
Well here is a photo of this same root stump, after the small roots were left to grow for a year or two, so they where able to feed their part of the tree, i started to work on the by now dry deadwood of the stump. With power tools i took out most of the midle part of the stump. The life roots closed up the wond for a bit, so now it just looks like two roots! You also can see on this picture that the large wound on the right side looks naturale by now!
Regards,
Hans van Meer.

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PG Willekes

hey Hans.


Thank you for showing the progres of this amazing Hawthorn, yes i agree with you that it's very hard to find hawthorns like this in our kikkerlandje Holland.
And if you find time you can't take them because their growing in a protected area/landscape or something like that.
Iám concidering of taking a trip across te border to get some better material to work with.

Sorry i missed you at Ginko ,would have loved to talk to you about making bonsai out of our native trees in Holland.

Patrick.

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hansvanmeer

Thanks Patrick,
The next stop for me is the Noellanders trophy, i will be there as a treader with a stall, with Japanees scrolls, paintings, suiseki and some bonsai for sale! And if all goes well probably a small exposition with some of my private scrolls! so we have planty of time there to (ouwehoeren) talk abouth bonsai!
See you there!
Regards,
Hans.

PG Willekes

Hai Hans

Love to ouwehoer with you at Noelanders,will do!!
I heard a lot of good things about you from a bonsai buddy of me,i think you know him too Ed van de Reek.
He's atanding your trainning sessions coming spring, maybe i will join him, more stuff to talk about at Noelanders

Groetjes

Patrick.

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hansvanmeer

Hi everybody,

Keeping you posted on the "HAWTHORN" front: yesterday my lovely wife(got to love her) discovered a realy nice one, when we were walking in the dune/forest along the coast, not far from where we live!!!!! I wil post pics of collecting it later!
Hans van Meer.

hansvanmeer

Hi everybody,

i made some pics off the "Hawthorn" from this story this weekend and i thought it would be interesting to post them to show the progress of this bonsai.
As you can see there are now much less flowers than last year in the same period! This has to do with the fact that last year the tree was not allowed to let here branches grow, because off the two shows she was in that year. She had to look in good shape the hole year and that is way there are not much flowers this year. That is not a bad thing because an abundance off flowers every year drains much energy on such a small bonsai. This year on every main branch there will be some shoots that are free to grow until the second part off summer, when the will be cut back, up to the second pair off leaves, this will promote flower buds on the small branches instead off leaves buds. Maintaining the profile on a small flowering bonsai is always difficult! Some times you have to decides what is important: the flowers or the branch structure!
Hans.

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