The Bonsai Blog of Hans Van Meer

Hi everybody, I would like to share with you all some pictures of my old Hawthorn in full bloom. The abundance of this years flowers game as a big pleasant surprise to me! It had not bloomed like this for many years, so the heavier feeding regime that I started last year has worked like a charm! This healthy and happy image looks so much different from the bare leafless image that it had at this years Noelanders! This changing of images trough the seasons, is the extra beauty of deciduous Bonsai!  It has been a pure delight for me, to be able to sit in front of it, with a coffee in one hand and a Cognac in the other! While thinking about how this little tree got to this point in time, while enjoying it intoxicated perfume!  These little private moments with the trees that I work with, are what makes this Art Form so unique and special to me! This little Hawthorn is more than 12 year in the making and it gets better with every year that passes! For those who want to read the story of this tree, right from the moment when I collected it in Wales with Tony in early 1999: HERE!!!

At this moment I am preparing my Literati Hawthorn for next weekends, 6Th edition of the “Bonsai van het Westen” (Bonsai of the West) show, that is staged on the 2 and 3 of June, in the botanical gardens in Delft (The Netherlands)! HERE!!!  This is the most important Bonsai Show in The Netherlands and I am proud that I am invited to judge the trees on display and to show one of my own trees (out of competition). And because my Literati Hawthorn was shown for the last time at the prestigious “Ginkgo Awards”, way back in 2005! I thought it was about time to show it again! Tomorrow I will make some picture with different displays options that I am thinking of (mostly in the shower! ). I will post some off those shots later, so you all can see, how I work! Well…. work, might not be the right word to describe what I do?! Play might be a better one!

I hope you enjoyed the images?!
Cheers,

Hans van Meer.

Last week I made a quick stop in La Roche en Ardenne, a beautiful small village in the Belgium Ardenne. And while walking trough this lovely old place, I discovered a golden opportunity to show the world for ones and for all, that we Bonsai enthusiast are no softies when it comes to rough outdoor sports! So here I am, risking life and limbs, preforming a extremely dangerous planking!

Cheers,

Hans van Meer.

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Hi everybody, I would like to share with you all some pictures that I made of one of my little tree that is in full bloom. I bought this Lilac “Syringa microphylla” in September 2009 at my old Bonsai friend Teunis Jan Klein’s place “Deshima” HERE!

Today this Urban yamadori is still a pre Bonsai, but this years exuberant flower show makes a very spectacular visual impression and they dont smell bad eather!

I hope you enjoyed the flower show?!

Cheers,

Hans van Meer.

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