Tree Tuesday - Ladoga Bonsai

in #treetuesday5 years ago (edited)

An ordinary shot, but I have a cool story connected with this little juniper, quite memorable for me (though it has got no happy ending).

I have dig out this sapling, when I travelled to Ladoga skerries back in August 2018, at one of the islands, and - long story short - brought it back to my apartment at St.Petersburg, where it stayed just for a week and traveled to my countryside house. I have made a couple of alpine hills there, which has moss, heather, succulents and stones. Juniper surely would fit well there. On a Ladoga island, on a huge lifeless stratum of stone, it looked so lonely that I feel sorry for him and feel I should "save" it. So I saved it, the seedling rooted, began to grow... but this summer it turned out that it did not survive the winter.

People who are in the know, shared some know-how recently: for coniferous saplings, it is necessary to take into account the directions of the world, and plant it - orienting it just as it grew, with the north side to the north, etc. ; they state this greatly increases its chances to take root and grow in a new place.

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Taken with Canon 5d, Tamron 60mm macro | all rights reserved

Anyway, the same week, when a migrant lived in my house, I acquired a Tamron 60mm macro lens, and the picture you see was one of my very first test shots. Thats why it is so valuable to me - it was my first acquaintance with macro photography, my first result.

ps
This year, we dug up at Ladoga a wild sapling of home-made currant, at some abandoned Finnish farm - it looked splendid. I hope it will like my land... But this is a topic for a separate post.


Вот вам небольшая история про саженец можжевельника, который я выкопал на одном из островов в Ладожских шхерах в августе 2018 года. (Но предупреждаю, эта история без хеппи-энда). С неделю переселенец прожил в моей городской квартире, а потом уехал на дачу. На даче у меня устроена парочка альпийских горок, на которых растет мох, вереск, суккуленты и камни - идея в том, чтобы экосистема воспроизводилась сама, без усилий с моей стороны. Можжевельник отлично бы туда вписался. На Ладоге на огромной безжизненной толще камня, он выглядел так, что хотелось его пожалеть и "спасти". Я его спас, саженец принялся... ну а этим летом выяснилось, что зимы он не пережил.

Знающие люди поделились со мной хитрым ноу-хау: для хвойных саженцев обязательно надо учитывать стороны света, и сажать - ориентируя его точно так же, как он рос, северной стороной на север, и т.д. - это намного повышает его шансы укорениться и расти на новом месте... Так или иначе, но в ту же неделю, когда переселенец жил у меня дома, я приобрел макро-объектив Тамрон 60мм, и снимок который вы видите, был одним из первых тестовых снимков, и этим он мне тоже дорог - моё первое знакомство с макрофотографией, мой первый результат.

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а в этой поездке на Ладогу мы выкопали на брошенном финском хуторе одичавший саженец когда-то домашней смородины - выглядит роскошно! буду надеться что наша земля ему понравится. Но это уже тема для отдельного поста.


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Next time put a coat to the poor thing during winter!! :D

we did it! we coated our irises, and the juniper, as well. (the coat was made of spruce branches) @blacklux...

Cover the little tree too!!

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