It's a little surprising that there are so few good shots of bonsai in creative settings. Not that they don't exist, just that they don't exist in larger numbers. This one was borrowed from Peter Warren's Surayama, as were all the photos in this post.
We’re merging two themes from recent posts: Rosemary bonsai and Peter Warren’s bonsai. Only one Rosemary actually, but all the bonsai shown here are Peter’s.
This is not the first time we’ve featured Peter Warren’s bonsai and, as we are fond of saying, won’t be the last. Peter is an accomplish bonsai artist and teacher who is well-known in the professional bonsai world, but I’m not sure his fame has spread into the regular bonsai enthusiast crowd. Or maybe it’s just that he’s not all over facebook. Or that he is very well known in England and Europe, but not as well known in this hemisphere. Or maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about and maybe you’re wondering why you’ve read this far…
This photo is one of a series Peter calls Noelanders trees. (Noelanders refers to the Noelanders Trophy, a famous bonsai exhibition that is held in Belgium). He doesn't say what it is, but I'm going to go ahead and guess that it's a Norway spruce (Picea abies). Root-over-rock. In a splendid wavy pot and with a companion with red berries.
This Shimpaku with its delicate, fluid deadwood and its heavy crown is another from Peter's Noelanders trees. I'm guessing that the companion bonsai is root-over-rock Trident maple.
This powerful tree with its brilliant berries must be a Japanese winterberry (Ilex seratta). It's hard to tell what's going on with the companion. Like the previous two, this one is labeled Noelanders tree.
Did a little cropping to get a closer look.
Here's that Rosemary we were talking about. I'm not sure I've ever seen a pot quite like this one. I wonder where it came from.
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