Trimming one of my favorite "Hawthorn".

Jesse wrote:Great info and trees Hans. Thank you for the time and effort that have gone into this thread. I love the way the original Hawthorne has turned out and I'm sure glad that literati came around.

Thanks Jesse! It is nice to hear that you enjoyed the little story of this tree! You can find more stories of my trees on my website (link below)!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.

landerloos wrote:Just did it for my kids Hans, a few days early because during the week they are at there mothers place.

Zie ginds komt de stoomboot uit spanje weer aan.................................................

Peter

Hij brengt ons Sint nicolaas ik zie hem al staan!
We have just finished watching the 2010 Dutch horror classic "Sint" ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8sf7S6eDu4 That film shows us a complete different children's friend!
I am currently happily sipping away one of my presents, "Remy Martin" with some chocolate truffles from Belgium! I love Sinterklaas! No mater what they say in this film!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.

Hans van Meer. wrote:

landerloos wrote:Just did it for my kids Hans, a few days early because during the week they are at there mothers place.

Zie ginds komt de stoomboot uit spanje weer aan.................................................

Peter

Hij brengt ons Sint nicolaas ik zie hem al staan!
We have just finished watching the 2010 Dutch horror classic "Sint" ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8sf7S6eDu4 That film shows us a complete different children's friend!
I am currently happily sipping away one of my presents, "Remy Martin" with some chocolate truffles from Belgium! I love Sinterklaas! No mater what they say in this film!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.

mmmmm belgian truffles, send me some Hans
Have to see that movie, I am a horror fan

enjoy your gifts
Peter

landerloos wrote:

mmmmm belgian truffles, send me some Hans
Have to see that movie, I am a horror fan

enjoy your gifts
Peter

Peter PM me your address and I will send you a copy! No problemo!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.

Pavel Slovák wrote:Hi Hans
Great job as always. Really "great" little tree.
Who made ​​the pot? Very good connection to the tree and pot.
Greetings Pavel

Thanks Pavel! Sorry but I dont know who made this pot, there is no name on it! But if I remember it right, I think it was Serbia or something like that! This is just a trainings pot for this tree, I selected it because it was deep enough to hold the roots. But I agree that this pot looks good under this tree! In the future it will be planted in a special, less deep, Dan Barton pot! But that is for the future and for now it will grow happily in this pot!
Will you be going to the next Noelanders so that we can finaly meet?!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.

Hans van Meer. wrote:

landerloos wrote:

mmmmm belgian truffles, send me some Hans
Have to see that movie, I am a horror fan

enjoy your gifts
Peter

Peter PM me your address and I will send you a copy! No problemo!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.

You mean that Hans, I send you my info
Thanks mate

Peter

landerloos wrote:

Hans van Meer. wrote:

landerloos wrote:

mmmmm belgian truffles, send me some Hans
Have to see that movie, I am a horror fan

enjoy your gifts
Peter

Peter PM me your address and I will send you a copy! No problemo!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.

You mean that Hans, I send you my info
Thanks mate

Peter

I send it tomorrow! But you got to let me know if you liked it! And dont show it to your children, they might never sleep again on 5 December!
Have fun!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.

Thank you Hans, ofcourse you will get my opinion

looking forward to see it, my 13 year old son will like it to I think

Peter

Hi hans,

Any news about this haw?

Regards,
Rui

Hello Hans. Have you any pics of your "dancer" hawthorn this year? Would like to see if so, because I have an old Hedera Canariensis which is about the same starting shape. I had not thought about "literati" until reading your post. Cheers. Rick.

Rick36 wrote:Hello Hans. Have you any pics of your "dancer" hawthorn this year? Would like to see if so, because I have an old Hedera Canariensis which is about the same starting shape. I had not thought about "literati" until reading your post. Cheers. Rick.

Hi Rick,
sorry but I have missed this one completely! And I would have loved to show you pictures of the dancer made this year, but sadly she died last year. But knowing that they some times come back to life after a year of being clinical death, I kept her in my garden and hoped and prayed! And again the miracle happened, after being dormant for a hole year, some 20cm off the bottom part of the tree came back to live again this spring, with some strong shoots! So I cut the tree down to about 40cm above soil level. If this bottom part of the tree survives, I will have to start working on a completely different Bonsai! But I dont mind, I am glad she is trying so hard! Tomorrow I will dig up some old pictures of her, so you can see the design! She was becoming realy special and than she died!
I do have a picture of my small Hawthorn that I would like to share! It is made a few days ago after I had don a branch selection and branch trimming. Some are left to grow to become new (secondary) branches. This summer and than one more season of fine branch building/filling and than she will look realy great! But I am a bit bias!



Hope you enjoy the picture!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.

Hi everybody,
last week there finaly was a long enough break in the cold spell, we had over a month now, to get my Favorite Hawthorn out off it's winter shelter and strait into the living room, were I spend two peaceful afternoons of slow wiring it again! With on eye on the TV, were I saw us won 2 colds and a few other medals in the world ice speed skating championships in the man and female competition! The sound of the TV was off though, because I needed my years to listen to some pumping dance beats! After all: a serene atmosphere is important when one works on Bonsai!
Below: This is how it looks after the wiring was don and all branches were placed in their desired position.



The branches are filling out nicely by now and I realy like how it is progressing towards what I had in mind when I started to style this lovely Hawthorn.

Cheers,
Hans van Meer.


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Nice tree (and wiring job!). Great movement!

Best,
Dorothy

dorothy7774 wrote:Nice tree (and wiring job!). Great movement!

Best,
Dorothy

Thanks Dorothy! I am glad you like it! Wiring is a painful exercise on a tree this size, makes you glad when it is finished for more than one reason!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.

Hm.. This tree was pretty much dead only a year ago? No wonder you are considered a leader amongst us lesser gifted potterers

As usual, great tree. If you ever want to drop it off somewhere, consider a visit just across the border into Germany near Enschede .

Jelle.

Hans van Meer. wrote:
Thanks Pavel! Sorry but I dont know who made this pot, there is no name on it! But if I remember it right, I think it was Serbia or something like that! This is just a trainings pot for this tree, I selected it because it was deep enough to hold the roots. But I agree that this pot looks good under this tree! In the future it will be planted in a special, less deep, Dan Barton pot! But that is for the future and for now it will grow happily in this pot!

Hans van Meer.

I believe the pot is from bonsai slovakia. They have very nice pots.

Here's the link:
http://www.e-bonsai.eu/product/bonsajova-miska-pa-pao-h19-253/

leatherback wrote:Hm.. This tree was pretty much dead only a year ago? No wonder you are considered a leader amongst us lesser gifted potterers

As usual, great tree. If you ever want to drop it off somewhere, consider a visit just across the border into Germany near Enschede .

Jelle.

Hi Jelle,
I dont understand the first part of your reply, this tree was since I collected it always very healthy!? But I am glad you like it so far and I do understand that you want it, but I think that you would have to stand in line for it!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.

Nunovsky_PT wrote:

Hans van Meer. wrote:
Thanks Pavel! Sorry but I dont know who made this pot, there is no name on it! But if I remember it right, I think it was Serbia or something like that! This is just a trainings pot for this tree, I selected it because it was deep enough to hold the roots. But I agree that this pot looks good under this tree! In the future it will be planted in a special, less deep, Dan Barton pot! But that is for the future and for now it will grow happily in this pot!

Hans van Meer.

I believe the pot is from bonsai slovakia. They have very nice pots.

Here's the link:
http://www.e-bonsai.eu/product/bonsajova-miska-pa-pao-h19-253/

Thats the one! It is a Slovakia pot!
Thanks for clearing that up for me!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.

Hi every body,
here are some births eye view pictures that I shot yesterday when the sky finally brook open for a few seconds! In these shots you can see how my branch ramification is build up on this Hawthorn.

Below: Birds Eye view of the left side branches. Note that there are several layers of branches that you can see in this shot!



Below: Birds Eye view of the whole tree, the front is in the bottom middle in this picture.



There are a lot of branches in there so I hope that they are clear enough?!

Cheers,
Hans van Meer.

Amazing tree! Congratulations.