In addition to the massive nebari and the lush soft green foliage contrasted with the soft creme pot, you might appreciate the near perfect photograph. It was taken by the omnipresent Joe Noga (all the photos in this post are his as are numerous other bonsai photos featured on this blog and elsewhere). As you can see, the tree is a Willow leaf ficus. No mention is made of the artist. The photo is from the 2016 Winter Silhouette Bonsai Expo gallery.
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Here's a great candidate for a winter silhouette. I won't bother to guess what it is
Larch are one of only a handful of deciduous conifers in the world. Most larch turn yellow in the fall, like this one, though I have seen reddish needles on at least one species. There are thirteen (give or take) larch species that form an almost continuous ring around the colder regions of the northern hemisphere (with breaks for the North Atlantic and Bering Sea). My guess is this one is a Tamarack (Larix laricina), a species native to parts of the Northeast U.S. and much of Canada
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Bougainvillea with its brilliant bracts and its well chosen stand that almost mirrors the contorted trunk
A close up of the lead tree's impressive nebari
Part of the rather spectacular venue
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