BradBjorn posing with an impressive (Stewartia?) bonsai. From an article in Architectural Digest titled "Meet the Brad Pitt of Bonsai."
Still looking after my grand kids (and enjoying this fog-shrouded City by the Bay while they’re in school), so to save time and trouble we’ll borrow from our archives. This one appeared last December.
We don’t usually feature photos of people. I almost always find people in bonsai photos distracting. Rather than ‘look at me with my beautiful bonsai,’ I prefer ‘look at this beautiful bonsai.’
However, occasionally photos of people with trees work. In this case, because the article is about Bjorn Bjorholm, “the tall, blond, all-American,” a couple photos of Bjorn with bonsai are appropriate and necessary. Otherwise how would you know?
The article in question, ‘Meet the Brad Pitt of Bonsai‘ appears in the October, 2014 issue of Architectural Digest, one of the one percent’s most prestigious and beautiful magazines.
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Japanese white pine are among Bjorn's favorites. All the photos in this post are from the Architectural Digest article or a slide show that accompanies the article. The little icons in this and other photos appear in all the slide show photos.
Here’s a great excerpt from the article that anyone who has ever really messed something up (I guess that covers us all) can relate to: “Today Bjorholm is fluent in Japanese, “though some days are better than others.” And, he admits, when it comes to his life’s work, mistakes have been made, the most dreadful being when he accidentally snapped off a picturesque and highly important deadwood branch on a bonsai that had taken his employer years to perfect. “My heart sank because I knew he was going to tell me to go home,” Bjorholm says. Instead Fujikawa, his face a furious red, simply turned and walked away and refused to talk to his American apprentice for weeks.”
This powerful old yew looks familiar.
Too bad about those little icons, but still, this is an undeniably super cascade in a perfect pot.
Before and after
Brad Pitt, bonsai artist.
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