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Hi everybody,
here is a picture from my Hawthorn in full bloom that I like to share with you all. It was quickly made when the sun finally broke trough the rainclouds for a few minutes! We had higher temperates in December, I need sun!
Hope you enjoyed my little Hawthorn?!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.
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Hi everybody,
last Sunday I gave my second Masterclass in a mount, the first one was 2 weeks ago in Leersum (NL) and this one was all the way in Venlo at the “Bonsai vereniging noord en midden Limburg” (Bonsai club north and middle Limburg). After a long 2 hour early morning drive I arrived at their club house that is situated in the middle of a children’s patting zoo, were I was welcomed by free walking chickens and peacocks. I got help from some friendly club members to carry in my drawing board and 6 of my trees that I brought alone as examples for the lecture. After a nice warm coffee , it was very cold that morning, I started with my Masterclass for a full house of over 30 people that brought along there trees for me to discuss after my lecture section. The members of this club were very enthusiastic and eager to learn, so the day flew by! They were all very happy with my lecture and the tree discussion! So I left for home very content and with a smile on my face! I hope to be invited back some day to work again with all these friendly Bonsai enthusiastic!
Below: 2 pictures of my lecture and tree discussion.
Below: I love to draw! Here I am explaining my wound treatment technique.
They were all very happy with my lecture and the tree discussion! So I left for home feeling very content and with a smile on my face! I hope to be invited here back some day to work again with all these friendly Bonsai enthusiastic!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.
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Hi everybody
last Saturday I drove up to Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel (close to Rotterdam) to visit my good Bonsai friend Teunis Jan Klein at his Bonsai studio “Deshima” , for a talk over some coffee and also to check out my Taxus demo tree that was at his place! The two amazing Acer’s that welcomed me in his self build Bonsai studio were overwhelmingly happy and colorful! They gave a tunning impression that can only be admired! Great place, some great trees and a great artist and teacher, well don my friend! Here are some pictures to give you a impression of what I saw that day, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did?! And if you have the change, go visit him in his Studio, you wound be disappointed!
Below: The two trees that amazed me when I walked in to his studio!
Below: A close up look underneath the fairytale foliage!
Below: My demo tree for the Bonsai van het westen (Bonsai from the west) event.
Teunis Jan’s amazing beech forest!
Below: Close up underneath the canopy! Stunning isn’t it?!
Below: A amazing yew (sorry for the bad picture)!
Hope you enjoyed the pictures?!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer
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Hallo allemaal,
op 1 & 2 Juni word in de botanische tuin in Delft alweer de 7e “Bonsai Van Het Westen” show gehouden. Ik zal daar op de Zaterdag een demo geven op een mooie Taxus en naast mij op het podium zal de nieuwe winnaar van de New Talent Contest (EBA) Martin Bonvie een demo geven op een mooie meerstam Taxus! Naast de vele mooie Bonsai van uit heel nederland zal mijn XL Larix er ook te zien zijn. Deze gezellige show was verleden jaar al een groot succes, maar deze editie word nog veel mooier! Ik zou zeggen: komt dat allen dus zien!!!
Voor meer info: BONSAI VAN HET WESTEN.
Tot ziens!
Hans van Meer.
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Hi everybody,
I would like to share some pictures that I made of one off my Prunus Mahaleb yamadori’s in bloom! These were collected last year and I cant wait to start working on them! All these gnarly old trees clearly suffered from time and several forest firers and the deadwood on them is truly amazing!
Below: Close up of the deadwood on the trunk.
Below: Close up of the flowers on a other one of my Prunus Mahaleb.
Below: A close up of the naturaly burned deadwood on a other of my Prunus.
Below: One of my yew yamadori waiting for it first styling!
Hope you enjoyed the pictures?!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.
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Hi everybody,
here is a picture that I made of my little Prunus spinasa in full bloom. Height 28 cm/11 inch.
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.
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Hi everybody,
on 27-4-2013 I visited the celebration of the 100 year anniversary of the Japanese garden in the “Clingendael” estate in Wassenaar (the Netherlands) with my friend and student Ed van der Reek.
About “Clingendael”:In the the 16th century there was only a farm in the “Clinge”(Dunevalley) were now the “Clingendael”estate. In 1591 Philips Doublet bought the farm and it was his grandson Philips Doublet III who build the beautiful house in Baroque Style that is still there today. He started to create the large gardens in the classical France style. The house became a center of art and culture. His wife Suzanne and his father in law Constantijn Huygens were a great influence to him!
Below: Clingendael house.
The most famous part of this grant garden is with out a doubt the Japanese garden, that’s open for only 8 weeks a year, because it is so venerable. It was Freule Daisy who in the early 1900 traveled to Japan and brought back a water drum, lantern and several bridges to build her own Japanese garden. This little garden is now the largest Japanese garden in the Netherlands and is since 2001 a protected heritage monument.
Here are the pictures I shoot during my visit! Enjoy!
Below: Right at the entrance of the park this last remaining old staff house welcomes us.
Below: Entrance gate at the entrance of the park. Many different stand holders were lined up from there on the left and the right side of the path.
Below: Back view of that same path.
Bonsai on display from the “Bonsai van het Westen” club.
Below: One of the many stunning trees in the park.
Below: Beautiful sculpture by mother nature!
Below: A farytale tree!
Hope you enjoyed this little post off a day well spent in a beautiful location with friendly people and old friends!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.
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Hi everybody,
would you believe that my trees are still in their winter shelter and that frost is predicted again for the next two nights!? BRRRRR!
I am longing more and more for the warmer weather to finally arrive so that I can start walking along my favorite beach again in search for some peace of mind! These lovely Orchid’s in my garden are a hopeful sign for warmer weather and hopefully some better times?! I need Summer!!! 
I hope *you like them?!
And I apologize for my some times so badly written English! It isn’t my first language and I just overlook the obvious mistakes some times! But hey, some times the outcome is pretty funny! 
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.
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Hi every body,
here are some births eye view pictures that I shot yesterday when the sky finally brook open for a few seconds! In these shots you can see how my branch ramification is build up on this Hawthorn.
Below: Birds Eye view of the left side branches. Note that there are several layers of branches that you can see in this shot!
Below: Birds Eye view of the whole tree, the front is in the bottom middle in this picture.
I hope that they are clear enough, because there are a lot of branches in there!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.
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Hi everybody,
last week there finally was a long enough break in the cold spell, we had over a month now, to get my Favorite Hawthorn out off it’s winter shelter and strait into the living room, were I spend two peaceful afternoons of slow wiring it again! With on eye on the TV, were I saw us (The Netherlands) won 2 colds and a few other medals in the world ice speed skating championships in the man and female competition! 
The sound of the TV was off though, because I needed my years to listen to some pumping dance beats! After all: a serene atmosphere is important when one works on Bonsai! 
Below: This is how it looks after the wiring was don and all branches were placed in their desired position.
The branches are filling out nicely by now and I really like how it is progressing towards what I had in mind when I started to style this lovely Hawthorn.
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.
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