A Scent of Spring

I like it when azaleas show some leaves when they bloom. Sometimes you see them completely covered with flowers, which can seem a little unnatural. This magnificent Nyohozan Satsuki Azalea belongs to Melvyn Goldstein. Its height is only 10 inches (25cm). It, along with nearly two hundred of North America’s other greatest bonsai, can be found in the 2nd U.S. National Bonsai Exhibition Album (out of print – Albums 3 & 4 are still available). We’re not out of the winter woods yet here in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, but there is a slight scent of spring in the breeze. Still, … Continue reading A Scent of Spring

Finally! A Very Good Start

Shimpaku juniper by Suthin Sukosolvisit. I’ve been waiting for years for Suthin Sukosolvisit to update his website and finally the wait has paid off. Well, sort of… Suthin’s classy looking new site is a very good start, but only two of Suthin’s world-class bonsai are featured so far (the two shown here). I’m hoping we don’t have to wait much longer to enjoy more of Suthin’s magnificent trees. Just in case you don’t know who Suthin (pronounced Su tin, BTW) is, well… in no uncertain terms, he is one of the world’s foremost Shohin bonsai artists (and a foremost bonsai … Continue reading Finally! A Very Good Start

Some of the Very Best Bonsai in the World

The trees are exquisite and so is the book.192 pages of some of the best bonsai in the world. This book, along with the first one and all the others to come, will surely become collector’s items. We can lay that notion to rest For a long time many of us wondered if North American bonsai was falling behind the rest of the world. Now we can lay that notion to rest. It turns out that what we were lacking was something the Japanese have had for a long time (the Europeans have had theirs for a while too); a … Continue reading Some of the Very Best Bonsai in the World