Michael Hagedorn A few photos with captions of our repotting adventures in 2023… A partial soil replacement of a hemlock, with the beginning of a muck wall to hold the soil in. The wall was up to the top when finished. It’s easier to repot large clumps and forests on slabs while leaving them on the slab and just partially reworking the root mass. With … Continue reading Repotting Closeups 2023
Michael Hagedorn This tree has been in a box to develop branching and nebari. We pruned at the same time we repotted this tree. Pruning back at repotting is possible with deciduous and less recommended with conifer (this story is spooled out in Bonsai Heresy). A Stewartia in a box. This tree grew with vigor, and, as tends to happen, the branches then begin to lose … Continue reading Stewartia Pruning Decisions
Originally posted on Hermanus Bird Club:
The Njalo Njalo (in Xhosa meaning ‘and so on’) Safari Resort hosted our latest birding excursion. The party of twenty-three enthusiasts were accommodated in chalets and a house, some seven kilometres from Touws River.? This somewhat sad and seemingly forgotten little town is set on the fringes of the Klein Karoo, basically a valley sandwiched between the Langeberg and… Continue reading Birding Excursion to the Tankwa Karoo.
Originally posted on Something Over Tea:
Autumn is a lovely time of the year when the days still tend to be warm and sunny, while a chill begins to creep in at night. The garden is still green and although most birds have already raised their families, I still find the odd eggshell below trees. They might be older than I think and blown there… Continue reading AUTUMN GARDEN VIEWS
Originally posted on Something Over Tea:
Today has been darkly overcast and dull with a very light shower clearing the air a short while ago. Having already looked at various hues of green on St. Patrick’s Day (interestingly the dead snake elicited the most responses!), as I walked around my garden this afternoon I was reminded of the various shapes of leaves we get in… Continue reading GREEN LEAVES
Originally posted on Something Over Tea:
We have had enough of green so it is time to move on to a brighter colour: pink. As Christina Rossetti says so elegantly What is pink? a rose is pink By a fountain’s brink. What is red? a poppy’s red In its barley bed … There will be no roses for you today – mine died off during… Continue reading THE COLOUR PINK
Originally posted on Something Over Tea:
I have said that dirt roads often lead towards an adventure of sorts. Open spaces also provide similar opportunities for finding interesting things to look at or experience. I will start with the clanking noise heard across the road from my home, where I spent a while watching the ineffectual ‘clearing’ of invasive prickly pears growing in-between indigenous Cape… Continue reading OPEN SPACES
Originally posted on Something Over Tea:
It is no coincidence that the path and roads I am about to show you are not paved in any way. To me, winding paths and dirt roads are synonymous with adventure. The path below is one of many paths that hug the coastline at Tsitsikamma and, although mostly used by visitors for day trips, I have also followed… Continue reading ROADS AND PATHWAYS
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