As I promised few days ago, here are the pictures of the dogwood after applying couple of guy wires and quick editing just by pruning unnecessary branches. I will wire it in early spring next year, hopefully tree will be repotted into ceramic pot in case one suitable will find the way into my garden.
Cornus mas "Attila"
Couple of days ago tree still had its foliage, then came night frosts and all leaves were gone. It was time for few decent pictures. So, here you can see it with remaining autumn foliage and then without as all leaves were removed. Right time to evaluate structure improvement since last season. Couple of necessary edits were performed in the crown already.
Fraxinus ornus "Jan"
There are the first and there must be last. Last tree with foliage in garden is Attila obviously. Was green up until recently but two frosty nights brought some purple on the leaves. So when I was doing winter storage for all trees I managed to make few pictures. As it is common with dogwood, just after first frosts leaves are dropping down at the moment you touch it. All were down in 5 minutes. When taking pictures I saw places to be edited and therefore few branches were shortened and guy wires applied. No pictures after work this time. It was already too late and too dark. Ill post them later this week hopefully.
Cornus mas "Attila"
Sometimes weather is against us. I wanted to take pictures of nice foliage on Vesna for some time but it was staying green for way too long. When colors started to appear leaves started to fall off quickly. So no really good shots of this cornus this autumn. Just few details. Last night we had first frost so in few hours all foliage will be down and tree will be stored for winter this coming weekend.
Cornus mas "Vesna"
We are living in an era of great progress. Everyday we hear about new development in almost all aspects of our lives and technology. For example driverless cars are going to hit roads sooner than we think, just yesterday I heard one of Google companies Waymo is going to launch driverless cabs. If you are taxi driver you better start to study something new very soon.
Or if you noticed, some big cities in Asia, like Delhi are experiencing really huge problems with air pollution this week. I guess most of the problems there are coal fired power plants and combustion engines in vehicles. New technologies are going to help with those issues as well. Tesla is leading pack with its electric vehicles and we can see them already almost daily. Electric revolution is currently under way in automotive industry and we will see the change.
But I have some concerns to be honest. For example what if driverless cars will not work as promised? They should work well but there will be bugs in software or something similar?
Like for example this blogging platform from Google. Some time ago I started to use Google+ comments here. Worked pretty well. But, I wanted one simple thing. Get notification via email whenever someone post a comment under my post. Should be easy task, right?
Of course.
We get dozens of emails. Spammers find you and send you any possible crap. Try to register or use any online services and you'll end up getting their promo emails forever.
But try to set up notifications here on Blogger when you use Google+ comments! You are not getting emails you would like to get!
Strange.
I thought I'm just moron and could not set it up properly. I think I have tried everything and I'm giving up. I just go back to old comments setup. This way all older comments are gone, which is pity but there is no other way I guess.
If you guys, bloggers out there figured out how to do it, please let me know.
I just hope guys at Silicon Valley are going to make better job with AI and robotic taxis.
Yeah, and here is the maple agin. I do not remember such colors. I see it now everywhere. Walter keep killing us with his outstanding stuff daily, and you see it on blogs and social networks that most of the Europe and North America is having colors like never before. What a joy. But I will tell you, naked trees are just behind the corner. I guess tomorrow.
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| Last picture taken today, first some three weeks ago. |
On progress
With some of my trees I have feeling I'm not getting anywhere. Time to time I'm frustrated by development of this oriental hornbeam to be honest. And time to time I have feeling I found out what a tree want to be. My latest flash I had when I was looking at this picture. I Have to edit it in spring and then still result will be 10 years away. No worries, I have enough time.
Carpinus orientalis
Couple of days ago new pot appeared in my garden. Looking at it I had an idea I could have tree for it. So I took this ash tree from the shelf and looked how it will look like. Tree was taken out from previous chinese pot and roots were examined. Some minor editing to the root ball were necessary and tree fitted quite well. I used fresh moss to protect roots and keep them moist. Few days later it was good light to take decent pictures. You can see the result for yourself. There is plenty of posts about this tree here on my blog, but short summary - tree was collected from wild in Spring 2010, so naw in its 7th season in my garden.
As you may know I try to name some of my better trees. I have a feeling this tree deserves name already. So, I'm using this event of moving tree to new pot to baptize it to "Jan", after one special person in my personal life.
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| New pot from Tomas Snovicky |
Usual substrate preparation, mix of Zeoilite, Terramol and rough peat, Osmocote fertiliser into mix. Ready to go.
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| Rough peat, in our part of the world referred also as lithuanian peat. Soaked in bucket and only floating parts used for substrate. |
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| In one of the spring post about ash I was reporting about shortening of the two thick roots. Both done well and new roots appeared from around the cut. |
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| Current front |
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| Back side, not bad either |
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| 2010 - 2017 in one picture. |
There will be autumn foliage soon but, tree is still green as one of the last in my garden. I wait for yellow foliage, and then I'm curious how the tree developed structure this season. Pictures will follow obviously.
Fraxinus No.2 "Jan"
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