Bonsai in an Unusual Setting, a Wavy Drum Pot & Others 1/18/17

It's a little surprising that there are so few good shots of bonsai in creative settings. This one was borrowed from Peter Warren's Surayama, as were all the photos in this post.

Spent most of the day trying to catch up the books. Not that much fun, but even less fun if you let things get too far out of control. Anyway, I didn’t leave enough time to put together a new post, so we’ll plunder our archives. This one is from June 2015. It was titled ‘Surayama – Shimpaku, Spruce & Several Others.‘

Continued below…

This photo is from a series Peter calls Noelanders trees. (Noelanders refers to the Noelanders Trophy Exhibit). He doesn't say what it is, but I'll guess that it's a Norway spruce (Picea abies) root-over-rock. You might notice the very cool wavy drum pot.

Peter Warren is an accomplish bonsai artist and teacher who is well-known in England and Europe, but not as well known in this hemisphere. Though thanks to his visit to the 2016 U.S. National Bonsai Exhibition and modern digital miracles, I suspect this is rapidly changing.

This Shimpaku juniper  with its fluid deadwood and heavy crown is another from Peter's Noelanders trees. I'm guessing that the companion is a root-over-rock Trident maple.

 

This powerful tree with brilliant berries must be a Japanese winterberry (Ilex seratta). It's hard to tell what's going on with the companion. Like the previous two, this one is labeled Noelanders tree.

 

A closer look.

 

Here's that Rosemary we were talking about. I'm not sure I've ever seen a pot quite like this one. I wonder where it came from.

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