Category Archives: Styling

Medi, but Most Def Not Mediocre

wayne | 04/22/2012

Five or six brilliant bonsai The first five trees in this post are from MediBonsai’s web gallery. The last one is from Germán Gómez’ facebook photos. MediBonsai belongs to Germán. Rather than bore you with my comments this time, we’ll just show you six brilliant bonsai (well, maybe just five are brilliant) and leave the [...]

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The Twist & Other Bonsai Eccentricities

wayne | 04/18/2012

Doing the twist. We’ve featured a few of these corkscrew types lately (all Shimpaku junipers), but this one takes the cake. Even though there’s something unnatural about many of these twisted bonsai, some work better than others and I’d put this one in that category. BTW: nature sometimes does twist trees in this manner, but [...]

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Weeky Wire: Dynamic Movement, Great Bonsai Events, Depth of Field

wayne | 04/16/2012

Dynamic movement. There’s something compelling about the shape and sense of movement expressed by this Carlos van der Vaart tree, even though the trunk’s somewhat uniform corkscrew effect gives me pause. I originally found this image on facebook, where the caption reads Carlos van der Vaart with Van Tuan Nguyen. It also appears in the [...]

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Tiny Bonsai

wayne | 04/13/2012

I won’t guess the species this time (crabapple?), I’m that not good at it anyway (if you don’t believe me, check out the last post). What I will guess is that these are fairly normal human fingers, which means this is a very small bonsai. This and the other two photos in this post are [...]

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Growing Better Roots & Trunks

wayne | 04/11/2012

In addition a one of the most perfectly developed crowns you’ll ever see, with its amazing profusion of tiny leaves; this Trident maple (I must’ve been drunk, any fool can see that this is a Zelkova) provides one of the best examples of trunk and surface root (nebari) development you’ll see anywhere. Neither are overstated; [...]

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Weekly Wire: Bonsai Surperstar, FREE Fertilizer, Making Uro, Spring!

wayne | 04/08/2012

Goyo-matsu (Japanese white pine) from the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum.   FREE FERTILIZER! We are giving away our favorite fertilizer over on Stone Lantern. Just for the fun of it (and to encourage you to place an order and to  feed your bonsai!)   Happy white Easter from Walter Pall. This morning Walter posted a [...]

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Eccentric Bonsai: Pushing Invisible Boundaries

wayne | 04/07/2012

Unusual, yes. Eccentric, somewhat. Sweet, definitely! The compressed quality (like a very large foot stepped on it) and the way the foliage sort of clings to the trunk, make for an unusual bonsai. Even the pot and the reddish brown ground cover are different. But aside from its more eccentric qualities, there’s that wonderful trunk. [...]

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A Levitated Bonsai Platform

wayne | 04/05/2012

After. A twin trunk Mountain hemlock that was collected, styled and placed on a very thin piece of plastic by Michael Hagedorn and friends. It’s been a while… …since we featured Michael Hagedorn (Crataegus Bonsai). This is partly because lately we’ve been focusing more on international bonsai than North American bonsai; and partly because if [...]

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Weekly Wire: Bodacious Bark, Bonsai Bliss, Viva Brasil & Slovakia Too

wayne | 04/03/2012

Bodacious bark. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen bark quite like this. Its uniquely patterned texture and color adds an abundance of character and age to this wonderful old live oak. Furthermore (and at the risk of excess word proliferation), have you noticed the pot? How much character it has (and how small it is [...]

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Back to the Source

wayne | 04/01/2012

Tokonoma with a large pine bonsai and scroll. From Kunio Kobayashi’s Shunkaen Bonsai Museum. Back to the Source I think it’s a good idea to check in on Japanese bonsai now and then. After all, it’s one of the two most important historical sources for bonsai (the other would be China) and still produces a [...]

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