Like most people, I'm a sucker for showy flowers (subtle flowers too, but that's for another time). On bonsai and everywhere else. In this case it's a very showy Azalea bonsai that belongs to Mark Fields. Often azaleas and flowering bonsai are designed to show off the flowers, and though you'd have to ask Mark to be sure, I suspect that was his intention.
I found the three trees shown here on Mark Field’s facebook feed. There are some other good ones that are definitely worth a click, but rather than show them all, we’ll just whet your appetite.
Mark’s business is Bonsai by Fields, part of which is Mark Field’s School of Bonsai (definitely worth a look if you live anywhere near Greenwood Indiana).
You could recognize this massive tree as a Trident maple from a mile away. And even though saying this it an exercise in stating the obvious, that's a very impressive nebari. Great taper too.
This is a very sweet Shimpaku as is, but I'll bet it would be even sweeter in a smaller show pot with some moss and the deadwood enhanced a little with lime sulfur. FYI and in just case you don't know this; trees you see in shows are often in pots that are really too small for growing. When the show is over, they go back into larger pots.
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