This Tsukomo cypress-on-a-half-shell* is being offered for sale by Suthin Sukosolvisit. Before I read the variety I thought for sure it was a Hinoki cypress (same genus, Chamaecyparis, but different species), but I'll defer to Suthin's keen eye.
Our old friend Suthin (Suthin Bonsai Studio) has been putting up new trees for sale on a regular basis for the last few months. These aren’t just bonsai from your everyday bonsai company either. Each one is from Suthin’s personal collection, and when an artist offers something from their personal collection, it’s usually among their very best.
Speaking of his best, Suthin’s trees show up in all four U.S. National Bonsai Exhibition Albums, often as prize winners (to my eye all his trees are prize winners).
We’ve been featuring Suthin’s new offerings for a while now and will continue for as long as he keeps putting them up.
We don’t usually mix adds for our products (bonsai books in this case) into the middle of a post, but in this case, where each book relates to a particular tree, I thought we’d give it a try (complaints, praise or whatever are always welcome in the comments).
Sweet shohin. Before I look, I'll guess it's a Willow leaf ficus (I know, way too easy).
Speaking of small trees There are a wealth of Shohin bonsai in this book
Looks like this Trident maple swallowed most of its rock.
This could be your hand holding this very cool little Black pine
Speaking of Japanese black pines….
...here's our famous Pine book
Japanese maple of course. Not bad and neither is the pot.
Bonsai with Japanese Maples. Even though that's a Trident maple on the cover, it's about Japanese maples (mostly).
*I don’t think it’s really a shell, but you have to admit…