This is a collection of images that someone put together. I recognized several trees, including at least one Kimura (The Magician), one Morten Albek (author of Shohin Bonsai), and one Wolfgang Putz. Overall the quality is very good, though a few fairly ordinary trees found their way in. Share
If you haven’t seen the Magician wielding a chainsaw, check this out. It’s from a 2007 bonsai convention at Mistral Bonsai in the Spanish province of Tarragona (I was there, but that’s another story). Kimura’s assistant is Salvatore Liporace, a well know Italian bonsai artist and author of several Bonsai Today articles. When Masahiko Kimura [...]
Okay. You can lower your eyebrow. All I did was type in ‘bonsai branching’ on Google. I’ve thought about taking the tatoo plunge, but, like most thoughts, it doesn’t go anywhere. How about you? Anyone got a bon-tat out there? BTW: to see more of the host… Share
This sweet little juniper… …came from this somewhat scraggly nursery stock. The artist is Simon Carr. The photo was originally submitted to artofbonsai.org and later appeared in Bonsai Today 103 in a Green Workshop article entitled Instant Bonsai. Share
The two bonsai in this post, including this remarkable Korean Yew (Taxus cuspidata), are from Weyerhaeuser’s Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection. The photos were sent to us by David De Groot, the collection’s curator. If you check two posts back, you’ll see that the collection is now closed to the public. Hopefully, it will reopen fairly [...]
The following bit of sobering hard times news is from Weyerhaeuser’s Website. Weyerhaeuser Announces Closure of Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection Federal Way, Wash. (March 4, 2009) — Weyerhaeuser Company announced today that it will indefinitely close to the public the Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection, located at its corporate headquarters in Federal Way, Washington, effective April [...]
This Burning Bush (Euonymus alatus compactus) is from Reiner Goebel’s bonsai gallery on his beautifully designed website. The tree started out as very ordinary looking nursery plant (see below) in 1998. BTW: if you want to set up your own back yard bonsai display and are looking for inspiration, take a look at Reiner’s back [...]
