Then I visited Tijek in Slovenj Gradec the other day. Man dig up some great yamadoris, most of them are Prunus mahaleb. Two of those Prunus are first class material, congratiolation! He will show them when time will be right. Probably he learned something from the past and he don't praise around with freshly dig up yamadoris as some people do. Firts they must survive ...

Zadnjič sem potem zvečer obiskal še Tijeka v Slovenj Gradcu. Človek je izkopal nekaj izjemnih jamadorijev, predvsem rešeljik. Dve sta svetovni, res čestitke! Jih bo že sam pokazal, ko bo čas, verjetno ga je za razliko od nekaterih že srečala pamet in se s sveže izkopanimi jamadoriji še ne hvali naokoli. Morajo najprej preživet ...

Yesterday's project was repoting the Taxus. You already know the story about it, I designed it last year and now the tree was ready for it's first bonsai pot. Because this tree is big I called Matej for help. We took the tree out of the training pot, comb out the roots - and find out that I don't have pot big enough!! How many times trees already surprised me ... When repoting you must have a lot of pots that you can try them with tree.

Včerajšnji projekt pa je bilo presajanje tise. Zgodbo že poznate, oblikoval sem jo lani, zdaj je bila pripravljena za svojo prvo bonsajsko posodo. Ker gre za veliko drevo sem na pomoč poklical Mateja. Drevo sva potegnila iz trening posode, razčesala korenine - in ugotovila, da na zalogi nimam dovolj velike posode!! Kolikokrat me je drevo pri presajanju v posodo presenetilo, a se še nisem navadil. Pri presajanju je enostavno treba imeti na zalogi čim več posod, da jih potem lahko pomerjamo z drevesom.

So we drove to the Rajko's place, tooked two big pots and rushed back to Ljubljana. Then we squized Taxus in the new pot easy, but even though we measured the tree carefuly before we now find out that the new pot is too big ... Well, well, this will be a Taxus new home for least a year or two. Then I'll look for new pot, the perfect one! 

Preostalo nama ni drugega, kot da sva se odpeljala do Rajkota, vzela dve veliki posodi (saj nisem hotel spet tvegati) in odhitela nazaj v Ljubljano. Tiso sva potem z lahkoto spravila v novo posodo, ki pa se je kljub prejšnjemu natančnemu merjenju izkazala za preveliko ... Jej, jej, ampak to bo vsaj za leto ali dve novo domovanje, potem pa v lov za popolno posodo!

Then we packed akadama tightly between the roots and watered it fine at the end.

Sledilo je dolgotrajno trpanje akadame med korenine in na koncu obilno zalivanje.

Taxus is now in it's first bonsai pot, but there is still a lot of work to be done. First I must paint the dead wood with lime sulfur and of course work on crown. Even though in too big pot I'll might exhibit it for the first time at our International exhebition next year in Ljubljana.

Tisa je zdaj v prvi bonsajski posodi, na njej pa me čaka še kar nekaj dela. Najprej barvanje suhega lesa in seveda nadaljne posvečanje krošnji. Ampak kljub preveliki posodi jo bom morda prvič razstavil prihodnje leto v Monsu.