freezing

This January set a record being the coldest for 23 years! And it isn't over yet. The weather forecast still predicts freezing temperatures the next week so far.

My Shohin is in shelter but I decided to take some of them in to a non freezing store, in order to secure some watering for a while.

Actually, this is the first winter in 15 years we had to take so much care in winter time.

I hope the winter will take a rest soon, and also hope that the bonsai haven't suffered from the severe cold this year.

Even the stone dragon had the cold into its bones :-)

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winter images

Winter images updated in the gallery: Cotoneaster horisontalis, Cotoneaster microphylla, Rhododendron, Ulmus.

Rhododendron lysolepsis

japanese Black pine needle thinning

Early to midd winter is the time to thin the new needles on Japanese black pines, Pinus thunbergii. The old needles was removed in autumn, and the task now is to balance the energy of the tree by reducing the number of needle pairs at strong branches and twigs, so they balance with the medium strong growing branches. Week branches (branches with few or short needles) are left untouched.

Morten Albek and Torben Pedersen working on Torbens JBP.

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