An Eccentric Bonsai with a Exceptionally Long Cascade 4/9/16

We found this exceptionally long cascading bonsai on the Bonsai South (Australia) website (the old link no longer works). I'll guess it's Ficus of some sort. The blank gap above the photo is intentional and has to do with how our posts appear on social media. The original photo is below. 

It’s time to dig way back into our archives. This one originally appeared in 2009,  our first year. It was part of a series of posts on eccentric bonsai and was titled Eccentric Bonsai #4: A Very Long Cascade. The trees and the photos belong to Bonsai South.

It’s not easy to keep the lower reaches healthy on such a long cascading branch. Especially on a tree that basically wants to grow upward. You’ll notice the untrained small branches at the very bottom. Letting those small sacrifice branches grow unimpeded helps draw energy down to the tip. If this tree was just watered and otherwise left alone, the tip of the cascade might die for lack of energy.

Another, not so eccentric Ficus from the Bonsai South gallery.

Without the gap.

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