Workshop

A few days ago there was a club workshop in the Primorska region of Slovenia. My friend Bojan with his gang did a great job finding a nice workshop area. Next to the workshop we had a small exhibition.
I must say the level of the trees we bring to such events is getting higher and higher!

I was working a little on my Prunus mahaleb. A few cuts here, a few cuts there...

2nd Bonsai & suiseki Mustra

The past weekend we once again joined the bonsai and suiseki exhibition in Erd, near Budapest, Hungary. The exhibition, which is not of an open type, but only friends are invited to exhibit, was again smaller, but of high quality.
And the Slovenian trees are again bringing a few prizes home.

The two demonstrators were Jan Culek  (CZ) and Sandor Papp (HUN)

 My little juni was awarded best shohin.

My othe two exhibited trees, a black pine and a corean hornbeam

The Prunus mahaleb from Tomaž - best bonsai at the show.

STOLEN BONSAI

COPIED FROM A FRIEND'S BLOG (Tomaž Kovšca).

Last night this juniper was stolen from my yard.

Pot was broken, so the tree is bare-root and has no chance to survive. If you have any information, please contact me!

First autumn colors

Autumn has come to my place as well. Below you can see my hornbeam in autumn colors. This one is for sale or trade btw.

Work

After some time, once again I went to Tomaž's place yesterday where we worked on our trees. Tomaž was working on his scots, Miha was getting his Chamaecyparis ready for exhibition and Gašper was working on his spruce.

But I was making the most noise since I was working on the deadwood of my yew.

6th Alpen-Adria exhibition

This weekend the members of the slovenian bonsai club once again attended the Austrian Alpen-Adria exhibition. And once again all the main awards went with us to Slovenia. :)

I got the first prize in the small trees class.

Rajko got the first prize in the middle-sice trees class,

and Tomaž got the first prize in the large trees class, plus best tree by visitors award.

Getting ready

Next week I'm going to my next exhibition in Austria. This time I decided that I'll exhibit a more elegant composition. The tree is an Euonymus verrucosa.

Back to Italy

I begun my Wednesday morning with this scene at my house. Once again I was heading to Italy, but this time not for an exhibition. I have had this spruce for five years and never have I decided to style it. To me it was simply too big. So I decided to give it To Mauro Stamberger in exchange for another tree. But before I got to Italy I made a quick stop at my friend Bojan's place, with whom I also made a trade.

 

In Mauro's garden.

Yamadori area.

I came home with two great new trees:

Giareda

The past wekend me and a few of other Slovenian bonsai friends drove to Italy, near Bologna, where the local bonsai club Helen in colaboration with the bonsai school Progetto futuro organized an exhibition. Beside the exhibition there was a mass workshop of various artists and a few demos by italian instructors.
But before the expo in Friday we visited Enrico Savini and took a look at his great collection.

I was the only Slovenian who was also exhibiting two bonsai - two shohin. Here is the first; a black pine.

And here the second one, a chinese juniper which wan second prize.

PS: Roland was awarded top PF student of the year!! Congrats!