You've probably never seen a Rosemary bonsai that looks quite like this one. To my eye the deadwood and the way the branching and foliage are styled is reminiscent of an old yamadori Shimpaku from Japan. This remarkable tree belongs to Peter Warren. It originally appeared on Peter's Saruyama blog (and then in a Bark post from last year). Below, there's another version of the same tree, also from Peter's blog.
We led off our last post with a Rosemary bonsai, so in an effort to keep going in that direction, I just spent about an hour online looking for other worthy Rosemarys. Turns out finding good ones is easier said than done; there just aren’t that many top-tier Rosemary bonsai out there. I did however manage to find three that I like (plus the one from last post makes four).
This Rosemary-on-a-slab bonsai is from Antoni Payeras’ Escuela de Bonsái (Bonsai School) gallery. I don't know if you'd call it great, but it is without doubt unique. We showed it here on Bark back in 2012.
Found this gnarly little fellow on Pinterest. No attribution. The intertwined deadwood and living vein remind me of the little field-grown Shimpaku (designed to mimic yamadori) that we've being seeing a lot lately.
Here's Peter Warren's tree from above (also from his blog). Presumably and earlier version. You might notice the single flower.