FIKUS

Tomaz is one of my students with really great feeling for trees. They mean a lot more for him then for ordinary people. And this is a good stuff for one who want to be a bonsaist :-) ! Because winter is long and indigenous trees are resting, Tomaz bought a ficus some time ago, and of course ficus is living in the house trough winter. In my career I saw much by the beginners but not ficus in such good health yet. Tomaz has a green fingers and the tree will easily wait for spring, when he'll put it back outside in the garden. And because the tree is in such great health and because Tomaz is hungry for bonsai-work, we did a little shaping. We bent main brunches in to position and we did a plan of it's development. Next step will be a summer defoliation and detailed shaping of crown.

Tomaž je eden od mojih učencev, ki ima neverjeten čut za drevesa. Pomenijo mu več, kot običajnim ljudem. In to je dobra predispozicija za bonsajista :-) ! Ker so zime dolge in avtohtona drevesa počivajo, si je Tomaž že pred časom omislil fikus, ki seveda zimo preživi v stanovanju. Pri začetnikih sem videl že marsikaj, toda fikusa v tako dobri formi že dolgo ne. Tomaž ima očitno zelene prste in drevo bo zlahka počakalo na pomlad, ko ga bo Tomaž spet postavil na vrt. In ker je v tako dobri formi, Tomažu pa dolgčas po bonsajizmu, sva se ga malce lotila. Usmerila glavne veje in napravila načrt razvoja. Naslednji korak bo poletno razlistenje in detaljno urejanje krošnje.

Miha, this is for you - this is how the spruce might look in a two or three years ...

Miha, tole je pa zate - takole naj bi izgledala smreka v dveh ali treh letih ...