Sweet tree, great pot. From Pedro J. Morales’s Wall Photos on facebook (for non-facebookers, here’s Pedro’s website). Pedro says that it’s a shohin size bonsai from his cousin Carlos C. Morales. The pot is Japanese. Glen Lord suggests that the tree is a type of Ixora.
You don’t have to live in the tropics…
… to grow tropical bonsai (but it helps). At this moment, we might as well be in the tropics here in northern Vermont. Last night it rained so hard that torrentially is an understatement, and today it’s nasty hot and muggy. Still, it’s nothing like the tropics, where tropical bonsai really grow, rather than just survive eight months indoors.
Summer Sales
Bonsai Today magazines: 60% off the price that shows on our website
Stainless Japanese bonsai shears and other stainless cutting tools have all been deeply discounted
Embroidered Bonsai T-shirts: an additional 10% off the price that shows on our website
Netsuke Japanese figurines: new astoundingly low prices
Kenzans (flower frogs): 25% off the price that shows on our website
100 gram Bonsai Aesthetics wire now 1.90 per roll
Hundreds of other items, almost all discounted
Also from Pedro’s facebook photos. All it says is: Display Ganador (winning display) VIVA PUERTO RICO!!!!!
This cascade is from Pedro’s website. My apologies for cutting off the base of the stand (it’s a long story).
Tropical style tokonoma. Also from Pedro’s wall photos. Tokonoma is a Japanese word that means ‘display alcove.’