This pine (looks like a Japanese white; Pinus parviflora) is from the 2011 Taikan-ten bonsai exhibition in Japan. The photo was borrowed from Empire Bonsai. You don’t see that many great multiple-trunk bonsai (here’s another one we posted recently) and I think this one qualifies. It’s hard to tell from this angle if all the trunks are sharing a single root-system. It could be a twin-trunk tree and a triple-trunk clump combined.
Upcoming events. It’s time to catch up on some upcoming bonsai events and some other loose ends. Which reminds me, if you’d like to promote an event, just put the details in the comments. If you do, there’s a chance we’ll feature it in future post.
My apologies if you sent us a notice and we still didn’t manage to get your event up. Please remind us again and we’ll put it up ASAP.
Jim Doyle of Nature’s Way Nursery will be at Prairie State April 4-6. They have other events listed as well in their unique reverse calendar.
A powerful old flowering tree riding around in a dirty pickup bed somewhere in Vietnam (you tell it’s Viet Nam by the Pho V… sign). The photo was taken by a Joe Schoech.
Michael Hagedorn’s Winter Seasonal Workshop is full, but the Spring, Summer and Fall still have openings. But don’t wait, they’ll fill up too.
The Columbus Bonsai Society’s 40th Annual Bonsai Show is coming up July 20-21. Forty straight years. That’s impressive. Someone is doing something right in Columbus. And speaking of being impressed, they’ve also been cranking out excellent newsletters for a long time.
A while back we featured a tree in a strikingly unusual bonsai pot. After looking around for a bit we stumbled upon Atelier Bonsai Element, the creator of some very distinctive bonsai pots. Though I couldn’t find the pot from our previous post, I believe we’ve found the source.
Here’s another one that is similar to the one we featured a few weeks ago.
Here’s something for those of you in the wilds of Western New York.
We don’t usually feature events that have already happened, but I like the photo. The event was Forty Years of Viewing Stones at the Huntington (Southern California). We found out about it on Capital Bonsai’s blog.
Hidden Gems from the Pacific Rim. For some excellent Rim Shots, check out this post from last month.
Bonsai right here in Vermont. I picked this photo off of Mill Brook Bonsai’s website. I think this is the first time we’ve featured anything from right here in Vermont (except some shots of field growing from my back yard). Mill Brook is just south of Burlington VT. I’ve only visited once (my feeble excuse is that it’s on the opposite side of our almost Texas-sized state), but was very much taken by the nursery and the friendly people I met there.