This old triple trunk Japanese white pine resides at the Omiya Bonsai Art Musem in Saitama Japan.
Busy weekend, so we’ll dip back into our archives. This one is from January 2014.
First a confession. The title of this post ‘Bonsai Meets Pop Music’ has little if anything to do with the bonsai shown here. However, if you scroll down, you’ll see that it wasn’t made up out of thin air, and if you read Japanese, some light may be shed.
All the trees shown here are from the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum, which houses one of the best bonsai collections anywhere. Here’s their website and here they are on facebook.
Crabapple. There nothing quite like viewing deciduous trees in the winter when the entire structure down to the tiniest detail is revealed. And then there's the fruit, which adds color just when we need it the most.
If you can ignore the background noise for just a minute, you'll see one of the finest and most powerful Chinese quince (Karin) in the world. In all its naked splendor and with just one fruit.
This elegant Japanese Maple is named Musashigaoka. Turns out several of the trees at the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum have names.
Now you know where the title comes from.
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