The new growth on some Spruce is often a brilliant yellow. Almost like yellow flowers. In this case the spruce is an Ezo (Picea jezoensis). This one resides at the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum (Saitama, Japan) as do the other trees in this post.
We’ve got a few themes running here; spring Satsuki flowers (last post), new spring growth and one of our favorites, the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum.
For a lot of people, Satsuki azaleas are all about the flowers, so it doesn't matter so much that you can't really see the trunk in this photo. You can however see just how massive it is and that this would be a noteworthy bonsai even without the flowers.
Another massive trunk on an altogether very impressive bonsai. It's a Japanese black pine with bright new buds acting as spring accents.
Another Satsuki in full flower. So much so that it's okay that the trunk is obscured.
A magnificent triple-trunked Trident maple full of fresh yellow-green spring leaves.
Raised-root trunks are not uncommon with Satsuki.