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The U.S. National Bonsai Foundation Has a Wonderful New Website, Featuring Some of the Most Outstanding Bonsai in the World
3 years ago Nebby 0
Source: Bonsai Bark Blog. The perfect blend of greens and reds highlights an altogether perfect tree. It’s a Japanese maple (Acer palmatum) that has been in training since 1906. It was donated to the U.S. National Bonsai Museum by Ryutaro Azuma in 1978 The National Bonsai Foundation and has a wonderful new website that features the U.S. National Bonsai & Read More
A Bonsai in an Unusual Setting (& Others)
3 years ago Nebby 0
Source: Bonsai Bark Blog. It’s a little surprising that there are so few good shots of bonsai in creative settings. This one was borrowed from Peter Warren’s Surayama, as were all the photos in this post. Still catching up form vacation, so for expediency’s sake we’ll plunder our archives. This one is from June 2015. It was Read More
When Can We Claim Deciduous Work As Our Own?
3 years ago Nebby 0
Source: Crataegus Bonsai Blog. ‘Whose work is it?’ is a question often asked by those who go to bonsai shows. Both conifer and deciduous bonsai will have answers to that question, but how that computation is made differs significantly. It is maybe easiest to understand how deciduous work is different by contrasting it with that Read More
Bento Bank
3 years ago Nebby 0
Source: BonTsai Blog. I’ve been thinking a lot recently. What does bonsai mean to me and what am I doing in Japan? Tempted by an elusive apprenticeship and a deep passion driving me forward I took the jump and now I’m here. A relatively spacious, but run down riverside apartment in Osaka prefecture. Of a Read More
A Muscular Monster, Before and After
3 years ago Nebby 0
Source: Bonsai Bark Blog. I found this Picea abies (Norway spruce, aka European spruce) before and after at Mandala Bonsai Ilona. Though it would be great to know just how large this tree is, nothing more than just the type tree and before and after is offered on the timeline This magnificent, muscular monster (sorry!) is Read More
Cotoneaster needs a trim!
3 years ago Nebby 0
Source: Watto Bonsai Blog. Yesterday was the monthly meeting of the local bonsai society and I took along a cotoneaster that was in desperate need of a trim. I had deliberately let this grow to allow the tree to gain some strength but the time had come. The before trim look. An hour or so Read More
Magnificent Old Larch Bonsai, Before & After
3 years ago Nebby 0
Source: Bonsai Bark Blog. The Guardian of Laments is Giacomo Pappalardo’s name for this magnificent old European larch (Larix decidua) Another before and after and it’s a good one. I have a soft spot for larches, though ours are Tamaracks (Larix laricina) and this one is a European larch (Larix decidua). Not the same tree, Read More
PREPAIRING MY BIG LARCH “THE ELEPHANT” FOR THE “TROPHY” 2019 IN BELGIUM.
3 years ago Nebby 0
Source: Hans van Meer Bonsai Blog. Hi everybody, last weeks in between 2 short frost periods, I worked on my “Elephant” Yamadori larch in preparation for the “Trophy 2019” in Belgium. First of all, I reworked the too lush and bright green moss that originates from my last trip to Slovenia this year. In Summer Read More