Hi everybody,
some 15 years ago I salvaged this “Hornbeam” from the wood chipper, wen it was thorn out, by big machines, from a 60 years old and 2 miles long hedges! I had many more, but the were killed or sold behind my back, by a former Bonsai friend!
I love the colors of this new foliage!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.
Hi everybody,
I would like to share this picture, I made this sunny afternoon, feeling really sad and angry and confused! Every year on the 30Th of April, We, the “DUTCH”as a nation, celebrate the Birthday of our Queen Beatrix. Trough out the country hundreds of thousand people will go in to the streets, dressed in Orange! Were whole family’s or children are selling there small stuff on blankets in front of their houses (free market), were there are hundreds of live bands and little children are playing there music on every corner you pass! You can buy all kinds of wonderful food from all the ethnic cultures you can think of! There are carnivals, parades and traveling attraction parks in every big city! To make a long story short this is supposed to be one of the best days of the year for use “DUTCH”…but something terrible happened! After the whole of our royal family had spent a wonderful sunny morning among the people of the city of Apeldoorn, walking, talking and shaking hands with everybody, just having unworried “DUTCH” fun, like every year! They all left in a open touring car, in slow pas, trough large crowds of celebrating people, standing on both side of the road. Towards palace het “Loo”, were they would have a defile, for the thousands of waiting people, on the steps in front of the entrance. Groups from all over the country were waiting there to walk pass the royal family and show stuff or give stuff or sing stuff or play stuff. This had not been don this way since our old Queen Juliana steps down from the throne, some 30 years ago. Then, just on the last corner before they arrived there, a madman drove his car full speed trough the small barricades and trough the large growth standing behind it! Like in a bad movie, all the people standing there and the millions of people, that were watching these festivity’s on television, witnessed from many angles, how after a loud BANG, people were thrown high into the air, tumbling over like bowling pines! This ……. moron almost made it to the bus with the Royal family, who watched the hole horror scene from close up, including the many small princes and princesses! But luckily? the impact of all the people he had hid on the way, had damaged the car so badly, that he drove him self into a large stone monument (the needle)! Only a few meters away from the royal family and a growth of thousand surrounding them! He killed, up to now, 4 innocent people! 5 are badly wounded and 9 only have broken bits! Among those people were two orange dressed little children, that only a few seconds earlier had the time of there live!
Holland or The Netherlands, has lost it’s innocents to day! The country, I love so much, will never be the same again!
This is a strange thing to comprehend when you are making photo’s of your Bonsai in the warm sun! What is wrong with this world?
"WOLFIE".
I just found out that a 5Th innocent bystander has past away on this otherwise sunny day, sigh!
Stay safe,
Hans van Meer.
Hi everybody,
I would like to show to you my Acer palmatum “Deshojo”. This Bonsai is beside one other tree the longest in my collection. When I bought it all those years ago, it was one off those typical bad quality Japanese import trees, that were and still are, imported by the thousands. No real Nebari (roots) or branch structure, but I fell in love with the lovely light foliage of this tree, so I had to buy it. After all this years of cultivation, it looks a lot more like a tree and I am still in love with the amazing colorful foliage, that gently moves with the slightest breeze. This little Bonsai always makes me smile, when I see it flashing its colors in the wind, providing imaginary coolness on a warm Summers day!
Acer Palmatum “Deshojo”.
Height: 23,5 Inch/60 cm. Pot: China.
Hope you like it?
Regards,
Hans van Meer.
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Hi everybody,
I would like to show you a picture of my Chamacyparis obtusa “Nana Gracilis” in it’s new pot. I worked for many years to get this tree to were it is today and I am really happy with the way it looks. Hinoki’s dont grow enough to become a big tree, so it really is a imaginary tree. I styled it in a way it would resemble the growth of a tall fur tree that has been battered by mother nature for many years. I think the loose way the foliage grows on this plants is a real advantage in this style, it looks unforced and natural. The underside of this foliage has a almost blue-is color to it, wile the top side is brightly green with almost yellow tips trough out the summer. This gives a wonderful effect to the layers, like the colors and shades on a distant tree! This pot is so much better than the previous one, it gives the tree more height and stature. I hope you like the image and feel of this Bonsai?
Hinoki Cypres. Chamaecyparis obtusa “Nana Gracilis”
Height: 35 inch/89 cm. Pot: China.
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.
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Hi everybody,
I shoot this picture this afternoon. This delicate little plant (dont know the name?) has been growing in harmony with this moss for 5 years now. It makes such a pretty picture, that I gladly like to share it with you!
Regards,
Hans van Meer.
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Hi everybody,
today I removed some wire from this small “Hawthorn” (below), before it would dig into these delicate new branches. I shortened and removed branches were necessary. If you wait to long, the branches will have grown, to long and thick, to use in a small tree design like this. I am realy happy with the fast progress this little tree made in just 3 years after I collected it in Wales. Hope you like it so far!?
Regards,
Hans van meer.
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Acer buergerianum. Height: 18 inch/46 cm. In a beautiful matching pot made by my pottery friends from " Isabelia".
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.
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Yep, that's just about right! 
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.
Hi everybody,
Today I shot some pictures of one of my “Larch”trees. This is one of my first yamadori trees I ever designed and I am really fond of it. About 3 seasons ago, I almost lost this fragile tree. Some of it’s major branches were lost during a very hot Summer in a small pot! I kept those dead branches on, because, for now they are a part of this Bonsai history! After that season, I planted the weakened Bonsai into these beautiful, but to big, Brian Allbright pot, so it could recover from it’s ordeal. With a lot of love and care, I managed to nurture it in to the brightly green health, it show in this next picture. Even though it is only a small tree, this Bonsai shows great character and age after all these years of training it in a pot. I love the sense of almost dis balance in this tree and the feeling of depth the back branches evoke. I hope to plant it in a better pot next year. I’m so happy that this little Bonsai is healthy again! I hope you enjoy it’s color as much as I do?!
Cheers,
Hans van Meer.
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