Late summer Meeeting 2008 #4

Sebastijan from Zagreb sent these as the contribution of the Croation team.

Late summer Meeeting 2008 #3

Alex did these images. Thank you Alex.

My wife said:"without Alex and the mobile toilette we could not have held the meeting."

Late summer Meeeting 2008 #2

And here some of my images.

Late summer Meeeting 2008 #1

This year again we were very lucky concerning the weathe e had. It cold not have been any better. Around 300 people found the way to my garden. We had a visitor from Canada,from France. A goup came from Zagreb and Split, Croatia (twelve hours dirve!), some from Slovenia, from all parts of Germany, Austria. Many had brought bonsai with them for the tree critique which went on for a few hours. Michael from Salzburg brought his famous food again and my lovely wife, Hanna, was busy in the pot room and with food and drinks all day long. Thank you all.

Here some images courtesy of Hans Kastner

Scots pines

mugo shohin cascades

The first one was unwired. I may decide to show it at the Crespi cup in the shohin professional show this year.

black pines looking good

These are European black pines, Pinus nigra Asutriaca. The first one is a shohin which is pretty much unheard of for this species.

some treasures found among the spruce

While I am very busy preparing trees for my upcoming Late Summer Meeting I find that some of them look better thatn last time.

My CD is here!!

My new CD is here! I still cannot believe it. This was hard work on unknown terrain. Robert S. from Germany helped me a lot. Thank you Robert.

So what is on the CD? It is a copy of my gallery. It contains about 800 (eight thousand!) images. And a lot of text.
Why would one purchase a CD that has the same contents ans a web site? Well, as many of you know all too well some of my files are huge, containing hundreds of images. it takes ages for them to load with a modem or any slow internet access. If you have the CD you can load from the Cd very quickly. Or you load the whole CD in twenty minutes onto your PC. then you can access huge files immediately. Then some folks have problems with images getting stuck. some folks have their own file for important images. They load every image that they find interesting onto their file. Well, with 8000 images I wish you good luck. You can get them all at once! And then, who says that the content of my gallery will always stay like it is now? I can reduce the content any minute. And finally folks just want a souvenir, an item from Walter Pall. They are all asking for a book. One does not write books anymore. One produces a CD. Here it is.
It will run on Windows, Opera, Firefox, Mac, Linux (with some slight problems). Usually it will self-load. If not, just find the index file and click onto it.

I sell this for 20 euro or 35 US$. My signature, if you want it costs nothing. At the moment it is only available at events where I am present. But I may well find a distributor. At the moment I WILL NOT SHIP!
The first event will be my Late Summer Meeting in my garden on Saturday, August 30.
See you there.

Walter

seminar "finding potential in material"

On Saturday, Augst 30 we had the seminar "how to tell potential in raw maerial" ar Wolfgang Kaeflein's place. As always this was a lot of fun for all participants. More than 30 folks came to learn all day about this.

See the images at the other blog "travelogues". Images are courtesy of jupp, nobi and schnappi from Germany. Thank you.


The next seminar will be on November 1st at Wolfgang Kaeflein's place. Jim Dyole from Harrsiburg, PA and I will do an all-day tree critique. You bring as mayn bonsai as fit into your car and we will analyse them in public.

On April 25, 209 the next semiar about finding potential in material will take place at Wolfgang Kaeflein's place.

Ein ganz besonderes weiteres Workshop ist schon fest geplant:

Grosse Baumbesprechung mit Jim Doyle und Walter Pall bei Wolfgang Käflein am Samstag, den 1. November 2008

Da werden Bäume beprochen, die die Teilnehmer mitgebracht haben. Es sollten Bäume aller Art in allen Stadien der Gestaltung sein - vom Steckling im Yogurthbecher bis zum Weltklassebonsai. Also nicht nur Problembäume, sondern auch solche, mit denen man echt zufrieden ist. Und natürlich auch alle Baumarten.Die Bäume werden öffentlich von Jim Doyle und Walter Pall analysiert. Es wird aber nur mit Worten gearbeitet, sonst wird nichts dran getan. Man bekommt als zwei Expertenmeinungen. Es wird auch vorkommen, dass sich Jim Doyle und Walter Pall auf der Bühne auseinandersetzen, weil sie verschiedener Meinung sind. Simultanübersetzug von Walter Pall.
Das wird auf jeden Fall lustig, interessant und lehrreich. Peter Schmidt wird euch erklären, wie man sich da anmeldet.


Weiters sind wir am Überlegen, ob noch ein Seminar "Potentialerkennung mit WP" bie Käflein am Samstag, den 25. April 2009 stattfinden soll. Da würden mch einige Meinugen interessieren. Wenn wir merkn, dass genügend Nachfrage besteht, dann wird es fest eingeplant.

some trees in good shape

European black pine
small Rocky Mountain Juniper
small Scots pine
two euonymus
trident maple
two small ponderosas
deutzia, shohin

Late Summer Meeting on Saturday, Augst 30, 2008

As already announced earlier this year my meeting will happen on Satuday, August 30.
location: Walter pall, Sonnenhamer Str. 6, D-82544 Egling-Attenham
Tel;: 0049(0)8176455

Everybody is welcome, announcement is not necessary, it is not a commercial event, just a party for bonsai insiders. You will see my collection of severyl hundred bonsai and sevrAl hundred bonsai pots. We will hold small demonstrations all day long. Tree critiques will be on all day. Bring some trees with you for discussion. Open from 8:30 to 18:00 o'clock. From 18:00 o'clock on we will meet for the social event with dinner and beer and so in the nearby Gasthof Jaegerhof.

Some small and affordable hotels are nearby:

Wegen zahlreicher Anfragen:

Am Samstag Abend ab 18:00 Uhr findet die Abendveranstlatung wie gewohnt im Jägerwirt in Aufhofen statt. Selber bestellen und selber zahlen.

http://www.gasthof-jaegerwirt.de/

Hauptstr. 10 • 82544 Aufhofen • Tel. 0 81 76 / 3 67 • info@gasthof-jaegerwirt.de

Zimmer und so:

1) Gasthof Post, Egling


http://www.oberhauser-egling.de/

. Hauptstrasse 11 . 82544 Egling

Fon 0 81 76 - 9 30 30 . Fax 0 81 76 - 17 86 . E-Mail: info@oberhauser-egling.de

1) Gasthof Deininger Weiher

http://www.ganz-muenchen.de/gastro/restaurants/deininger_weiher/lokal.html

Am Deininger Weiher 4
82064 Straßlach-Dingharting
Tel.: 08170 - 92450
Fax: 08170 - 924 51
geöffnet tgl. 9.00-23.00 Uhr
www.waldhaus-deiningerweiher.de

3) Pension in Holzhausen

Pension in Holzausen. Tel.: 08170/414

ponderosa shohin are impossible

As we know ponderosa have to be large bonsai because of the length of needles. Ponderosa shohin are unheard of and are impossible anyway. A shohin is a tree that is smaller than 23 cm. Well is it really impossible? This tree looks untidy after first styling as ponderoa usually do. Give him one year and he will look fine.

Salvador Dali

This is Mugo Pine nr. 18. It is called "Salvador Dali". If Salvador had done bonsai he might have come up with something like this. The tree wis styled for the first time only twelve months ago. The progress is enormous.

Rocky Mountain Juniper nr. 9

This Rocky Mountain Juniper was collected in Colorado in 1996. It came to Germany in 1999. For some reason it never grew much. It did not die but it refused to grow in length. There was very little foliage but the trunk and the dead branches were spectacular. The whole thing always needed a rather large crown. otherwise the trunk would appear too powerful. So the challenge was to make it start growing. In the fall of 2007 it was fed with a strong dose of chicken pellets (chicken do) and in spring of 2008 finally the spiking new shoots appeared. Thees are a 0prerequisite for this and related species to do serious staling. if you do it before the tree will just not like it and the branches will be sickish and maybe die. Anyway, in August 2008 the deadwood was edited again and the few branches were cleaned. Then they were wired. This is not a final styling. This is just a rough sketch to get one step further. Within the next years the crown will have to become much larger, as seen on the virtual.

mugo starting to be presentable

mugo looks fine

Old neeedles were plucked and the wholde thing is transparent again. This does not show on photographs. But it is very important in real life. A helmet-like canopy looks like a helmet if dense. Wehn the foliage is reduced considerably it becomes transparant and looks very good in reality. The optical weight of the crown is very much reduced and thus it looks light and the trunk powerful

The mugo with the goiter unwired and plucked

The old needles were plucked, the wire removed and the branches slightly edited. By now the mugo with the goiter looks quite promising. I will have to find a good pot for it or, maybe better a stone, to place the most unusual trunk to it's advantage.

Ponderosa cascade looking fine

Needles were plucked and the Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) looks like it is ready for exhibit.

Rocky Mountain Juniper nr. 4 getting to look good

The first image shows how a healthy Rocky Mountain Juniper can look like if you treat it right. They never have growth like this in nature and usually in captivity they look a lot worse. Only with very well draining substrate, agressive and very frequent feeding and watering a lot and full sunshine all day they can look like this.
And then very quickly the long shoots were cut back and a nice crown appeared. Now for the first time this tree looks like it will be something special one day.

mugo of my life refurbished

Everything was wired again. I managed to get this back branch on the lower left side to be visible from the front. Next year in fall the tree should be ready for exhibit again. But only if necessary. It is good to have so many trees to choose from and leave some alone for many years before they are exhibited. Good for the trees. They should not be rushed.

Rocky Mountain Juniper nr. 1

Petra cleaned the tree for quite a while today.

some pines that are going to offers

One mugo pine (Pinus mugo) and three Scots pines (Pinus sylvestris).

All are for sale or trade.

mugo after plucking needles

candelabra spruce nr. 17

The wire was taken off, branches edited. Then it was decided that the whole tree should be elevated in teh pot by 2.5 cm. So I took it out of the pot and repotted it 2.5 cm higher. I did not touch the root ball at all. Some guy wires were aplied and some thick branches had to be wired again. Now the spruce is well on it's way to become THE candelabra spruce. The root spread is 36 cm, compared to a height of 75 cm.

ezo spruce finished

Many will remember this ezo spruce, that i acquired in May 2008 as seen on the first image. I did rough styling and planting onto the stone very soon in may 2008. Now it appears the spruce did not mind all this treatment at all and grew quite vigorously. So I decided to finish it right away.
Ezo spruce, Picea jezoensis, 70 cm high, way over 100 years old, collected in Japan, from the Kato family.

three mugo pines after needle plucking

Ponderosa pine after needle plucking

Lena was so nice to pluck the old needles.

a visitor at my trident maple and Chinese elm.

European spruce nr. 9

I collected this spruce from an Alpine meadow in my beloved Tirol in 1992. It was at the timber line and the tree had struggled for probably one hundred years there. It was planted into the round mica pot and left alone for a couple of years. In 1995 I started major styling. The aim was a somewhat naturalistic formal upright form, just like so many spruce appear in the mountains. The lowest branches were jinned at that time. In 1999 the tree was potted into a much smaller bonsai pot and many more branches ere jinned. In 2003 the spruce looked very weather beaten. But I was still not happy and brought down all the branches to give it more the 'spruce look' as it appeared in 2004. Finally in August 2007 I had the epiphany to plant it onto this wonderful natural stone from Germany. In August of 2008 with the new growth of the year it looks quite mature. I am happy with this development.

European black pine nr. 3

This Austrian black pine was collected by Uli Ernst in Austria in 2002. It found it's way into my garden in spring of 2004. At that time it was huge, with an enormous crown. I decided to use it for a demonstration at the big German convention in Ratingen 2004. Afterwards it appeared a lot more tamed. In spring of 2005 it was taken out of the way too large and ugly plastic tub. We used a round Korean pot which was a bit too large because that's what we found. The wire was removed in spring of 2007. In August 2008 it was decided to do a second styling. All old needles were plucked, the foliage edited slightly and copper wire was applied. Now it looks like it will become a very good black pine one day. The nebari is really outstanding. The Korean pot is still a bit too large, although the tree has gained in girth considerably. At last a virtual to see what it would look like in a decent bonsai pot.

Sabina juniper nr. 4

The first image is exactly one year old. It has become quite famous in the meanwhile. This year the foliage was edited a bit again, all the spiking growth was cut back and smaller branches had been wired. On some of the larger branches on top the wire had started to grow in already after one year. So the wire was removed an rewired. Now the juniper looks pretty good for the first time. If this image will stabilize within the coming yxears I will be very happy.

mugo and black pines

The old needles were plucked on these ans some minor corrections of the canopy were done. The mugo cascade is fine now. It is close to exhibit quality. The two Austrian black pines are not so bad, but are for sale or trade.

European black pine nr. 10

This pine was collected in Austria in 2000. I received it in spring of 2002 and planted it right into this crescent pot by William Vlaanderen. In fall of 2004 I styled the tree for the first time. In July 2008 all the wires were taken off, old needles plucked and many branches shortened. Now it will be left alone for a couple of years and wired again afterwards.

Myrtle, first styling

Myrtle, Myrtus communis, 35 cm high, much older than 50 years, collected in Italy, dead wood original.

Olive first styling

European olive, Olea europea, 40 cm high, around 100 years old, collected in Mallorca, Spain, the wild form with extremely small foliage.