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Despite fatigue after such a day you must be satisfied. What a day in TORA! In the morning Mrs. Jolanda came for the basic workshop. Because she live in coastal area we could not work on Larix or Picea as she would have problems with them there. So she picked an azalea - this was no beginners material. With courage and enthusiasm we worked on it, in a year or two Mrs. Jolanda will have a very nice bonsai!   

Po takšnem dnevu se človek kljub utrujenosti počuti izpolnjen. Dan v TORI kot se šika. Dopoldne je na tečaj za začetnike prišla gospa Jolanda. Ker živi na Obali, se nisva mogla učiti na macesnu ali smreki, ker bi z njima tam imela težave. Pa si je gospa privoščila nič začetniško azalejo. Pogumno in z veliko intuziazma sva se je lotila in končala. Gospa bo v sezoni ali dve imela zelo lep bonsaj!

As I was just in azaleas I take a chance and did an "self-grafting" on one of my own. Because in a last two years it didn't produce a branch in spot I wish, I drilled a hole and pulled a longer branch trough it and elegantly solved a problem.

Ko sem bil ravno pri azalejah, sem izkoristil priložnost in na svoji izvedel "samogrebeničenje". Ker v dveh sezonah ni pognala vej na željenih mestih, sem daljše veje potegnil skozi izvrtane luknje in tako elegantno rešil težavo.

Then Miha and Jan helped Raje with re-potting his giant Larix, a little bit later Raje helped Jan with re-potting his a lot smaller Chamaecyparis ...

Potem sta Miha in Jan pomagala Rajetu pri presajanju mrcine od macesna, Raje pa je malce kasneje Janu pomagal presaditi njegovo veliko manjšo pacipreso ...

At the end David came in. He is in bonsai for a long time. But as he chose a way which requires the most patience (as he said: I'm the most patient among all of us), he is growing a trees from a seed, his little elms are now just ready for a group planting. With green mass It will be nice!

Za konec se je oglasil še David, ki se že dolga leta ukvarja z bonsaji. A ker se je odločil za pot, ki zahteva največ potrpljenja (ki ga ima največ med nami, kot je sam poudaril), namreč za vzgojo dreves iz semen, so njegovi sejančki bresta zdaj ravno pravšnji za gozdiček. Ko bo ozelenel bo prav simpatičen!

P.S.: Happy birthday, Raje! I hope that you enjoyed as I was!

P.S.: Vse najboljše Raje, upam da si užival vsaj pol tako kot jaz!