This is one of those azaleas that would look good even without the flowers. Speaking of the flowers, I suspect the photo has been shopped a bit as the color is a little too bright. You can find this and the other four photos shown here (along with a couple dozen others) at the Akademia Bonsai web gallery.
We’ve been featuring a lot of color lately, especially Satsuki azaleas in bloom and the response has been very positive, so here are a couple more azaleas for your enjoyment and some fall color as well (apologies for those of you who don’t want to think about fall just yet).
All the bonsai shown here are from Academy Bonsai in Warsaw Poland (Akademia Bonsai – Centrum Bonsai Wroclaw). Unfortunately, the individual trees don’t have captions (there is also the language issue, though Free Translation does offer Polish), so we’re still left to guess about the variety and the artist, though thanks to a little detective work, we know that at least three of the trees in the gallery are by Wlodzimierz Pietraszko (one is below).
Another azalea. It's probably a safe guess is that both this one and the one above are Satsuki azaleas, but I can't be sure about the Satsuki part, as there are no captions.
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Fall color rather than spring this time. I'm going to guess hornbeam.
Nice tree and an easy guess; a Japanese maple in fall color (with unusual lighting).
Not so colorful, but a distinctive and interesting tree (a snake about to strike?). It's the one by Wlodzimierz Pietraszko that we promised you. It's a juniper of some sort in the Literati style, though the crown is a little robust for Literati.
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Just in case you are one of the two people who might be interested… Due to a problem at the factory, we just received our early spring wire shipment a week ago. Our mid-spring order is still on the ocean. So here we are with a ton of bonsai wire and the spring season is over. This is our loss and your gain.