My Ficus Is Eating Its Pot 4/30/15

Sketch of a Podocarpus. This drawing is from Adam's Art and Bonsai Blog as are the other drawings and the photos in this post.

This morning I stumbled up a blog called Adam’s Art and Bonsai Blog. It’s by Adam Lavigne and the focus is primarily growing tropical and sub-tropical bonsai in Florida (Adam tends to range over a variety of related and unrelated stuff but he always comes back to bonsai).

I’m surprised it took me so long to discovered Adam’s Art and Bonsai. It has been around since December 2011 and Adam has posted regularly and extensively. We’ve nabbed a few drawings and photos and a little text just to whet your appetite. You can visit Adam’s blog for a whole lot more.

 

A rugged little Japanese black pine. Even though they're temperate zone trees, black pines do okay in sub-tropical climates. Adam's caption: "Louise Leister’s nice shohin jbp."

 

Another of Adam's sketches. We've tried to encourage our readers to improve their bonsai by learning to sketch designs and have featured plenty of examples here on Bark, but it's been a while. You don't have to be an artist; even primitive sketches can help you see the potential in a tree.

 

"Deadwood. Aussie pine." Carved by Mary Madison (see caption on on Buttonwood below).

 

From a how-to post about air-layering titled "Some tricks I've learned about air-layering."

 

Adam's caption says: "A fat chuhin size crepe myrtle from Doug’s. The front is all deadwood. Here in Florida it would have rotted by now." I'm not sure who Doug is or where he lives. Crepe myrtles are zone 7 trees, so you might think someplace like eastern North Carolina.

 

 The advantage and disadvantage of living in a hot wet climate. It's from a post titled "My ficus is eating its pot."

 

This one says "Mary's Buttonwood." That would be Mary Madison the Buttonwood Queen (Mary Miller is another famous Mary in Florida and the author of Bonsai Mary, an excellent bonsai blog).