SMALL TREES

Here are some pictures of the azalea that is supposed to be planted in the blueish pot next spring. I received the tree in 2005, one of about ten trees I bought from a former club member, who no longer had winter storage for his trees. It didn't, as you can see from the first picture, have many branches at that point. It had lost several important branches, and there are still ugly scars after those.

Autumn 2005

In 2006 I repotted the tree in kanuma, but didn't cut it back at all, I just tried to nurse it back to health. In 2007 it flowered with beautiful pink flowers and was after that cut back.

Summer 2007

The azalea was again repotted in 2008, in kanuma again. The pot from 2008 is utterly unsuitable, a terrible colour that would have fought against the colour of the flower in the most ugliest way, if the azalea had been allowed to flower. The pot in itself is not bad, it's a very good work by German bonsai pot artist Peter Krebs, the colour is lovely, and very well suited for an other tree. But at the time it was the only one in the right size I had available, so I decided to use it. It was cut back heavily in spring 2009, but has grown wild for the summer. It will be cut back again in 2010, and repotted. I hope to be able to cut the roots more in order to enable me to repot the tree deeper in the pot. I think flowers can be allowed in 2011. Right now it need everything to build new branches, not to produce flower buds.

Autumn 2009

Posted by Maud at 02:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Up for show today are two new pots I received last week. Both pots are made by Andy Pearson in the UK, also known as the Stone Monkey, and one of my absolute favourite pot makers. I have some of his beautifully crafted pot, both with trees in them, and some still waiting for the right tree. The glaze on some of them is so beautiful you would just like to touch it and never put a tree in the pot, but when you do it, the pot rises to new heights and you realize it is the only right thing to do, to plant a tree in it.

The first pot is an oval greyish glazed pot, the size is about 21 cm x 19,5 cm. The pot is 4,5 cm deep and the height from feet to rim is 6 cm.

The second one is for my azalea that will need a new pot in the spring. The tree is right now going trough a quite heavy redesign, it had some ugly scars where the former owner had lost/cut some branches, but the root base is good and it has beautiful pinkish flowers. I ordered this blue pot with the azalea in mind, and I think it will suit the tree perfectly. There is a little pink under the blue, you can see it in the second picture. The pot is round, the diameter 17,5 cm, it's 4,5 cm deep and the height from feet to rim is 5,5 cm.

As you can see, all Andy's pots have plenty of holes for anchoring the tree, and good drainage. Andy is also a very nice fellow to deal with, answering his emails fast, and you have the pots in the mail almost as fast as you type paypal on you computer (I think my pots have always been mailed the next day from payment). Thank you Andy for your good service and lovely pots!

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