A Steady Stream of Good Bonsai to Choose From… 8/26/13

A little ‘after’ effect from a David Benavente ‘before and after’ on facebook. My only comment is that we don’t normally feature lead trees with an unfinished ‘wrapped in rafia’ look, but this little tree is so sweet, so why not?

I just spent approximately 3 hours trying to decide on a post for today. Facebook, blogs, websites the whole e-catastrophe. Given that there’s a steady stream of good bonsai to choose from, sooner or later you have to surrender and just pick something. In this case, it’s David Benavente. He’s an old favorite and one of the very best.

 

A little challenge (don’t scroll down!). Any ideas about what to do with this one?

 

Another of David’s before and after series. Interesting how a simple (well, not so simple for most of us) reshaping of the crown has such a profound effect on the rest of the tree.

 

Here’s the tree above with its ‘before’ included. As you can see, some serious bending was in order.

 

Bunjin Scots pine. David’s answer to the challenge (above).