Bonsai with Koi. This shot is from Kunio Kobayashi's Shunkaen Bonsai Museum in Tokyo. The concrete display poles are made to look like tree trunks. All but one of the photos in this post are borrowed from Bonsai Empire.
Yesterday we featured Kunio Kobayashi’s bonsai, so why not keep going on the same track (more or less… just the first two photos are from his Shunkaen Bonsai Museum)? This post originally appeared in November, 2015.
This is the fifthteenth post in our long-standing Backyard Bonsai series. However, if memory serves, this is the first time that we’ve shown commercial gardens that happen to be in backyards.
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Here's another shot of the famous Shunkaen Bonsai Museum/Garden. Oscar of Bonsai Empire describes it this way: "The garden is quite spacious and this is the center patio; around it the masterpiece trees are displayed on poles made of wood. Most of these trees are pines."
A little tight, but you do what you can with limited space. It looks like a classic (non-commercial) backyard with trees displayed around the edge of the yard.
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Here's what Oscar wrote about this one: "One of the most beautiful Bonsai gardens in Japan, Taikan is located in Obuse. The trees in the photo catch the eye, as the background and ground are plain. The owner of the garden, Mr. Suzuki is known for his great skill displaying Bonsai. The trees are fixed to the poles, mostly to protect them from storms and heavy snowfall." I cropped this photo because I thought the rest was distracting. Here's your link to the original.
Here's a vertical display along a fence at the U.S. National Arboretum. The photo is by Aaron Karnofski.
Up against the wall! I borrowed this from Rosade Bonsai Studio website. We first showed it here on Bark in a 2010 post titled Backyard Bonsai #6: Un Patio Hermoso.
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