This colorful full bloom Bougainvillea bonsai has nothing to do with Tanuki (that's below). It belongs to Rick Jeffery and the photo was taken at the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival. It came to us via Bonsai Mary's newsletter.
Just two seemingly unrelated bonsai photos today. The common thread is Bonsai Mary (Mary Miller). Mary lives in Florida and writes mostly (but not exclusively) about tropical bonsai on her excellent blog. Mary also offers an equally excellent newsletter which you can sign up for on her blog.
This photo of Randy Clark's Juniper is from an article on Bonsai Mary about Tanuki bonsai (Phoenix grafts), that asks the question "Is it cheating." Rather than try to answer here, I'll encourage you to visit Mary's blog and see what she has say.
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