Martin Cheung submitted this photo. He writes that “it was taken in Tokyo, Japan in 2008. It’s a black pine grown in the garden with an informal upright style. The diameter of the truck is about 18 inches and the tree is more than 6 feet tall.” Only two more days Don’t wait any longer if you want to submit a photo to our $100 Bonsai Photo Art Contest.
Here’s the mystery tree two years later (2006). The owner/artist is Jay McDonald of Marin County (that beautiful place at the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge). We lifted this image from the Bonsai Society of San Francisco. And the winner is… The contest winner is Lawrence LeClaire. Lawrence teaches beginner’s bonsai classes and is the editor of BSSF’s newsletter, Fog City Bonsai, so he had a bit of an inside track on this tree, and apparently on reading my mind as well. From formal to informal It’s still the same tree two years later, though it’s in a … Continue reading Mystery Tree Contest Winner