Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Treat yourself: Academy in Harrisburg Nov. 30 - Dec 2

If your candidate won you must be happy and ready for an adventure. Treat yourself with a workshop in Harrisburg.

 If your candidate lost you must be bitter and frustrated. You need something to cheer you up. Treat yourself with a workshop in Harrisburg.


 Winter with Walter and Jim will be held again from Friday, November 30 to Sunday, December 2 at Nature's Way Nursery in Harrisburg, PA. Bonsai Academy with bring your own workshop and also workshop with trees from the nursery.
Call Nature's Way Nursery (Jim Doyle) for more information and signing up:

(717) 545-4555

or write:

Nature's Way Nursery - natureswaybonsai@comcast.net

It will be possible to participate as
- full member two days
- full member one day
- silent observer for a fee one or two days
- lurker for free for 20 to 30 minutes to see what's going on and to decide whether you want to participate immediately or later

It will be possible to purchase exquisite collected American material right then for everyone. You don't need to take part in the Bonsai Academy for that. There will be a special discount just on these days.
There are about 300 collected trees there. A few dozen are outright world class, many very good, all hand selected by myself. There are over 150 trees in the range from US$ 45 to 600, about 50 from 600 to 1,500. Everybody can find himself a genuine American collected tree. Ponderosa pines, Rocky Mountein junipers, Engelman spruce and many other native species are availble
They give guarantee for recently collected stuff as long as you leave it in the nursery - money back or credit in case the tree did not make it. There are over 150 collected trees which are very well established and can be worked on right away.

I am not aware whether there is a nursery in all of  America which has such a lot quality collected stuff to offer. East of the Rockies Nature's Way Nursery is THE source for quality collected trees.


I look forward to see you all there.


Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Possible improvements

The big knobs on the left and right side cold possibly be cut off or carved away in spring of 2013. A big problem will be to hide the wounds on an otherwise immaculate tree without any scar. The long branch on the left side can be shortened right away. Then I could  move the tree a bit to the left in the pot. This can be done easily next spring.

Japanese maple #11

Japanese maple, Acer palmatum, this one I have entered for Noelanders Trophy in January 2013.


Monday, October 29, 2012

Just in time

Just in time were all the tree stored away. On Saturday Walter and Boris helped me to get everything ready for winter. And right the next day he came.


Saturday, October 27, 2012

stolen from Martin Sturm, Germany

After a few others who don't want their trees to be shown here the most recent loot at martin Sturm in Germany: Two medium sized nikko Azaleas.


Thursday, October 25, 2012

small flowering ash in fall

Flowering ash, Fraxinus ornus.


hiornbeams in fall

Two European hornbeams, Carpinus betulus.


European black pine #11

European black pine, Pinus nigra austriaca


European beech #4

European beech, Fagus sylvatica


more maples in fall

Three Japanese maples (Acer palmatum) and one French maple (Acer monspessulanum).