Trident maple at the 2013 Taikan-ten Exhibition. There's a lot going on with the tree; three major trunks and a baby one sticking out the back, a large mounding nebari and a whole lot of movement. I particularly like the trunk on the right that emerges from the base of the nebari (the base of the base). I borrowed the photo from Bjorn Bjorholm. The color seems a bit off, but you still get the drift.
It’s a busy time when catching up seems even less likely than usual. One solution is to delve back into our archives. This one is from two years ago. It was titled “Who Doesn’t Love Good Multi-Trunk Bonsai with Their Morning Coffee?“
I started this post thinking we’d show a few Taikan-ten Exhibition trees from the last few years. A sort of mini-history lesson. But that proved too ambitious for a Sunday morning (it was Sunday then), so I settled on three Taikan-ten trees with multiple trunks. Much easier and why not, they’re great trees and who doesn’t love good multi-trunk bonsai with their morning coffee?
I'm not sure what this is (Ezo spruce?) but I am sure that it's a great tree. I wonder if Michael Hagedorn was inspired by this tree when he started working on his now famous Ezo spruce. The photo is from the 2011 Taikan-ten gallery at Empire Bonsai.
This one looks like a Japanese white pine (Pinus parviflora). It's from the 2011 Taikan-ten bonsai exhibition. The photo was also borrowed from Bonsai Empire. It’s hard to tell from this angle if all the trunks are sharing a single root-system. It could be a twin-trunk tree and a triple-trunk clump combined.
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