The black background provides a perfect contrast to the sheer beauty of the white flowers. This spectacular Hawthorn bonsai belongs to Hans Van Meer. He doesn't say what the the variety is but the flower looks like a Common hawthorn* (Crataegus monogyna). The pot is by Brian Albright.
We’ve been featuring flowering bonsai lately so thought we’d keep going in that direction. It’s the right time of year and our facebook likes tend to explode whenever we put flowers up (facebook likes and click-through-rate are related).
Of course the trick is to find worthy bonsai that happen to be in bloom. Otherwise, we’d just be pandering to the our human fascination with flowers. Not that that’s a bad thing, just that this is a bonsai blog and we pride ourselves in featuring the Crème de la Bonsai, or at least some close approximations.
Both of the bonsai featured here are from the bonsai blog of Hans Van Meer.
Another Hawthorn by Hans. Same species. This time the pot is by Dan Barton.
Wikipedia says these are Common hawthorn flowers, which pretty much cinches that the trees above are in fact Crataegus monogyna.
*Common Hawthorn is often referred to as English hawthorn.