The Bonsai Blog of Rune Kyrdalen

Here is Hans in his garden preparing his trees for the exhibition

His mugo pine called ‘big Ron’

A wonderful larch for the future!

The Duch gang; Ed, Hans and Jeroen that I stayd with! Hope to see you again soon!

So many people have already posted pics from Noelanders trophy so I will only post Udo Fishers winning maple. Hans van Meer invited me to come to Holland a few days before Noelanders trophy and he took me on a bonsai tour in Holland. Thank you so much for your hospitality Hans! Here are some pics.

First he took me to Lodders. A really large bonsai nursery in Holland. They had an enorumous number of bonsai of all qualities there.

This is just a small part of the nursery!

Later we went to se the nursery of Teunis Jan Klein. He had so many really good trees. Here are some samlpes.

Here is an overview of a part of his green house, he also had a large area outdoors!

Here is Teunis Jan with an erormous beech raft. I can understad why he is smiling!

And here is Udo Fishers outstanding trident maple!

I posted pics of this spruce last spring. Last August I repotted it inot a bonsai pot. Here are some pics of the repotting.

It was standing in a wooden box and it had grown a lot of new roots since it was collected

As you can see the original soil is almost mudlike peat, it was growing in a bog.

I removed as much as I could of the original soil. If this is left in the pot for too long it will slowly kill the tree because it is so compact and no oksygen can get to the roots. At the same time I leave as many roots as possible. I only cut off the ones that are too long and thick to get into the new pot.

Here is the tree in the new pot. It is not the final one but it’s good for now. I used a deeper pot to allow for more root growth and to make it easier too keep the roots damp at all times, spruces hate to dry out, they die quickly if they don’t get enough moisture. I will leave the tree in this pot for many years and when the tre is shaped I will put it into a shallower, oval pot.