This Rocky mountain juniper is from a post titled Juniper Live Veins and How They Move… on Michael Hagedorn's Crataegus Bonsai.
I got a little busy after the Artisans Cup and the transition into the Holiday Season and forgot to visit Michael Hagedorn’s Crataegus Bonsai for a few weeks. Until this morning that is. And now I remember why I keep coming back.
Since my last visit Michael has posted The Difference Between Plant Hardiness and Chilling… Seasonal Care for Cold Weather… and the post featured here, Juniper Live Veins and How They Move… Other stuff too, with lots of photos of people, bonsai, people interacting with bonsai and each other, snow sculptures and more (you might want to go see for yourself).
Not to overstate my case, but when it comes to deep knowledge of bonsai and the writing skills to illuminate the knowledge, there is no one I know quite like Michael.
Don’t believe me (that’s rhetorical, of course you do)? Visit Crataegus now and for the rest you bonsai life and learn the answers to questions you never knew to ask.
The whole tree...
... and another close up.
Michael’s observations about the tree above are a perfect compliment to our famous Juniper book (now back in print)
and then there’s
Michael’s Post-Dated – The Schooling of an Irreverent Bonsai Monk
still the best bonsai read around
