Japanese black pine by Dan Robinson. Dan is known for his dramatically wild collected trees from the American northwest (and Canadian far west). Obviously this Black pine doesn’t fall into that category, though a bit of that wild look is still there. It received a WBFF Certificate of Merit.
We’ve been featuring new websites a lot lately so we might as well stay on theme. All the photos in this post are from the new North American Bonsai Federation (NABF) website. NABF is affiliated with the World Bonsai Friendship Federation (WBFF)..
One of the things the WBFF is known for is their annual Photo Contest (here’s the entry form for next year if you’d like to enter). All the photos shown here are past contest entries from North America, except one, last year’s Grand Prize winner from Japan.
I was just looking in vain for a Dave DeGroot tree to feature in a post we did last week on the new Pacific Rim website (I hope you’re not an English teacher). Now this elegant windswept beauty shows up. They don’t say the type tree, but given the exfoliating bark, I’m guessing it’s a Crape Myrtle.
The Grand Winner of the 2013 WBFF Saburo Kato Memorial Award. It’s a Shimpaku juniper that belongs to Naotoshi Takagi of Japan.
This profuse Bougainvillea belongs to Brian Donnelly from somewhere in Canada.
A seasonally appropriate Trident maple by Randy Clark that won a Certificate of Merit.
They call this Certificate of Merit winner by Bernard Gastrich a Canadian larch, but we know a Tamarack here in norther Vermont when we see one (no offense intended to our neighbors just across the border, they are free to call them whatever they like). If you look closely you can distinguish the well aged bark from the nearly identically colored and textured pot.
Another seasonally appropriate tree by Randy Clark. It’s the feature bonsai on the NABF homepage.