Colorado spruce from Ryan Neil's Bonsai Mirai. This one is more about the bark than deadwood. Normally bark that covers deadwood is stripped to reveal the deadwood, but in this case it makes sense to just leave it. While we're at it, we would be remiss not to mention the fantastic pot. You might notice how the trunk almost completely fills it side to side. Such relatively small pots are usually for show and not year round growing.
Today we’re featuring three remarkable trees from Bonsai Mirai that we’ve never shown before. Yesterday we featured three remarkable Bonsai Mirai trees from our archives.
Ryan usually provides great close-ups and this one is no exception.
Though the other two trees shown here are more about other features, in the case of this Rocky mountain juniper, it's dazzling deadwood again (see yesterday's post). Another unique pot too, though much larger in relation to the tree than the one above.
I think it's safe to say that all four trunks (five?) in this clump style Ponderosa pine share one root system. But then most people would just admire the wild and wonderful qualities of a tree like this before they started speculating about the roots.
Another great close up. Now you can almost see the roots. Is the pot really a wood slab?
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