The Biggest Challenge with the Smallest Trees

I won’t guess the species this time (crabapple?), I’m not good at it anyway. What I will guess is that these are fairly normal human fingers, which means this is a very small bonsai. This and two other photos in this post are from Eric Sin’s facebook page. Last two days of vacation. Rather than actually work at putting together a new post, we’ll dive back into our archives. This one appeared just over three years ago (Tiny Bonsai). We’ve done some essential editing, enlarged the photos and added one tree. The biggest challenge with the smallest trees Mini bonsai … Continue reading The Biggest Challenge with the Smallest Trees

Tiny Bonsai

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 from Eric Sin’s facebook page. The biggest challenge with the smallest trees Mini bonsai provide challenges that you don’t find with larger trees. Basically, it’s about showing something that’s compelling with a very limited number of branches to work with (you can almost always forget … Continue reading Tiny Bonsai