This Satsuki azalea's trunk reminds me of some of Antoni Gaudi's sculptural architecture that graces the great city of Barcelona. Though in truth, the tree resides in Boon Manakitivipart's impressive bonsai collection in the great city of Alameda, California (birthplace of yours truly, btw).
The last week of April and first week of May are peak digging and transplanting season around here, so to save some time, it’s back to our archives. This one is from October, 2010 (with some revisions today).
Boon Manakitivipart is one of North America’s most influential bonsai artists and teachers. Several of his students have become important artists and teachers in their own right, and countless trees of Boon’s and his students’ have appeared on this blog, in magazines and books and elsewhere on the web.
All of the photos in this posts (except the very last one) are from a workshop that Boon hosted. It’s my impression that all of these trees were worked on by Boon’s students.
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From chuhin to shohin. I have a soft spot for stubby little trees. Especially ones with reams of character like this European olive that was originally a stump dug from Boon's garden.
Another short, sweet and muscular little tree. This one is a Coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia).Our Spring Bonsai Soil
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Is this a Shimpaku grafted onto a California juniper? Whatever it is, there's an abundance of power, movement and grace. There's another photo (also from Boon's workshop) of Janet Roth working on this tree that says, Janet is working on her show tree for Jan 2014 show.
This is the same Sierra juniper that appeared on the cover of Bonsai Today issue 108 (our famous last issue). The first branch has been shortened, and there's more foliage peeking out to the left of the trunk, but otherwise, it hasn't changed very much.
The photo that was used for the cover of Bonsai Today issue 108.
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