Night shot out the back door of a humble bonsai artist's ordinary house on an ordinary street, somewhere in the Pacific Northwest.
There are lots of good bonsai blogs these days. I’ve got three or four favorites, but there’s one that keeps bringing me back. The photos are plentiful and very good (even exciting), with shots of some of the best bonsai in North America (and people having entirely too much fun). These alone are worth the price of admission (there isn’t a price, but if there were…). But it’s the writing and the value of the content that really gets me (insight, subtlety, humor; you name what you’d like to see in bonsai blog).
Figured it out yet? Here’s a hint.
Not a bonsai, but a perfect Iris in a bonsai pot. Typical of a humble bonsai artist.
A very tall Hemlock clump (7 feet 4 inches tall - 224 cm). Here's some of that writing I mentioned... "This is all one tree, a natural, root-connected clump. For inspiration on how to handle this styling, I thought of the trees in that curious and expressive mountain zone just below the small and stunted krummholz zone, where the trees still have some height and make up small forest groups. The bottom branches of the trees in this zone often have environmental stability, while the apexes are sometimes windblown. So this tree was suggestively treated that way. This clump continues an exploration of our Northwestern forests in bonsai, the first being another Hemlock group designed some time back."
Another hint
Itiogawa shimpaku grafted onto a needle juniper
I don't know either of these courteous gentlemen. But I'll guess that the photo was taken in a famous rose garden somewhere in the Pacific Northwest.
A juniper and something you probably don't know about living veins.
Another hint
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Who else? I knew by the second sentence and I fully agree. If I had to choose a favorite it would be his vine maple that was in The Artisan’s Cup which Farrand Bloch called “a real piece of art.”
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