Atlas cedar with shadows at thePacific Bonsai MuseumWHOOPS Let's make that the National Bonsai Museum in Wash DC. From the John Naka collection. Photo by Jonas Dupuich (Bonsai Tonight).
By now most of you have been flooded with great photos from the Artisans Cup (with more to come). What you may not have seen are photos from Cup sponsored tours to the Pacific Bonsai Museum with its collection of famous bonsai in a lovely outdoor setting.
All the photos below (with the exception of the 5 styles) were taken by my childhood friend Michael Wells.
The photos of the tree and the plaques tell the whole story. All the trees at the Pacific Museum had similar plaques, though we didn't get photos of most of them.
We've featured this famous Chinese hackberry by Ben Oki before, though this photo gives us a different view.
This looks like a Northern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis). Sorry, no plaque; so we don't know who donated (or sold) it to the museum.
This'll give you some idea of the Museum's wonderful outdoor setting. The tree is a Sierra juniper that was recently purchased from Ryan Neil.
We showed a closeup of this multi-hued Trident forest the other day. Unfortunately, I don't remember who donated (or sold) it to the Museum.
Root-over-rock Trident maple with mushroom.
Dropped keys? This photo offers a peek into a piece of the tour and the museum's outdoor setting (I'm in this one, though that's just my shirt sticking out, not my belly). The large Trident maple bonsai, is one of the Museum's originals (plaque just below).
The 5 main bonsai styles from the Museum website.
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A fantastic set of trees, thanks for posting the photos! Just a heads up, the Atlas Cedar at the top of the post is from the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum in Washington DC.
https://www.bonsai-nbf.org/north-american-collection/
The eastern Cedar was from either Reiner Goebel or John Biel from Toronto
It could be from our Canadian friends, but it also smacks of Mr. Nick Lenz.
Not his pottery, but I can’t help noticing the styling.
If that trident maple is really the Domoto maple, that plaque cannot possibly be correct for that celebrated tree. Please see the Feb 20 entry in our Bonsai Book of Days project, http://www.phoenixbonsai.com/Days/DaysFebb.html.
The trident forest is #206.
Dat of Origin: 1970
Artist: John Planting
Bonsai Since: 1971
Source: Planting Collection, Menlo Park, CA
Remind me later, and I’ll email you a pic of the cards. It’s still on my big camera.
The White Cedar is #230. Goebel. Not Nick Lenz.
Though there is a great Nick Lenz right nearby. It’s a larch. I’ve got those cards, too. Nag me and I’ll send them to you, too.