The Bonsai Blog of Wolfgang Putz

ENJOY!  :o)                       (click to enlarge the thumbnails…)

Hope you´ll like it !???   Summer Greetings from Austria! Wolfgang  :o)

Found this yamadori juniper in Switzerland in 1999.

Hope you´re interested in the development of this juniper!?

Virtuals from German and US bonsai forums / galleries:

2005 - 2008:

~ 50cm tall; pot from Horst Heinzlreiter

All my trees and accent plants are in their pots and on it’s place in my bonsai garden. - Spring time is wonderful! - Enjoy!

Small trees or shrubs found in the woodland of China, Taiwan and Himalaja.

Winter hazels have ovate, toothed pale to dark-green leaves and loose them after a fantastic yellow to orange-red fall color.

The nice yellow flowers are produced in spring (March to April) before new leaves emerge. Hardy late frosts can damage the flowers! The flowers must be cut after a few days to get buds for flowers fort he next spring. If not cutting the flowers the winter hazel will flower only with a few flowers the next spring.

The position in the bonsai garden should be full sun to slight shade (in the height of summer or on very hot summer days).

Watering every day and feeding with Bio Gold 2 or 3 times in summer time.

Repotting every two years after flowering in spring (mixture of akadama, peat and pumice).

Pruning the new branches one time in June.

Styling of Corylopsis in informal upright forms with single or multiple trunks in medium to extra-large sizes.

Propagation from air-layer in spring or greenwood cuttings in summer.

Without winter protection roots and branches can die.

The second kind of winter hazel (Corylopsis pauciflora) is growing as a small shrub with thinny branches and not as perfect to use for growing a bonsai as Corylopsis spicata.

Good winter hazel bonsai trees are rare and not really easy to get from Japan.

Wonderful hoarfrost in my bonsai garden …… - Enjoy!

MERRY CHRISTMAS to all my bonsai friends from all over the world!   Wolfgang

This nice little Acer palmatum shohin found it’s way to my bonsai garden …… :o)

Only 16cm tall and ~ 45 years old. -  I “lost” a yamadori pine for this “baby”.   ;o)

ENJOY the fall colors of my bonsai garden !!   :o)

Hope you’ll like it !??

On Saturday (28th July 2007) i invited the big “bonsai family” to my garden.

About ~250 bonsai friends from Austria, Germany, Czech Rebublic, Poland, Switzerland, Croatia  and Slovakia came to my garden.  :o)

Walter Pall’s “tree discussion”  was really  perfect! - As ever.

The parking area in front of my garden was ful -  the whole day.  

“Wolfgang, if you have some problems with your yamadori spruce, i’ll bring the tree to my garden!?”   ;o)  

“Oh no, Walter, but here’s a present for you: 20 pound of your favorite potatoes from Upper Austria and one yamadori pine from Finland!”  

Thanks very much to  Walter & all my guests!  

Maybe we’ll see again in my bonsai garden  in 2 or 3 years …….

Astilbe spec.

This group of plants consists of more than 30 species, found from the Himalayas to Japan and in the Atlantic side of North America. They like a sunny location or maybe halfshade and rich, peaty, dump soil. - Dwarfed species are:

 Astilbe  chinensis pumila  with light pink flowers,

  Astilbe X crispa ‘Perkeo’ with violet-pink flowers and wrinkled leaves,

    Astilbe glabberima var. saxatile with light pink flowers and

  Astilbe glabberima ‘Sprite’ with white flowers.

Also very nice is a combination with >

  Astilbe chinensis and Equisetum scirpoides. Hope you’ll like it!? - Enjoy!

Well known by bonsai friends from all over the world ist my PINUS CEMBRA SCHNAPPS. - I’ll tell you some secrets of the recipe of this schnapps.   ;o)

The pinus cembra pine is growing in the Swiss, South Tyrol (Italy) and Austrian alps.

I take the fresh cones from the trees (that’s the hardest part of making the Zirben schnapps…), cut them in small slices …..

…. and put it into big glasses with sugar and korn schnapps (38% alcohol). The cones are about 12 - 15 days in the corn schnapps on a sunny place in the garden (i take the green house)  and give  the korn schnapps  the typical red color and the wonderful taste of pines. After filtrating  you have to put the schnapps  into the dark cellar for ~ 1 year.  - Some of my *friends* say you will get blind from this schnapps. - I think it’s the BEST schnapps for bonsai collectors.   ;o))

                                                                                              CHEERS !!   :o)

 (John Roehl)                                      (Hans van Meer)

 (Walter & Christine)                (Tony Tickle)