A place to share photo's and discuss your small bonsai or photo's from the shows and other club members trees you appreciate. Share your projects too! Trees don't have to be show ready to offer great discussion and inspiration.
To get us started here are a couple of my photo's from last years show and a small Engelmann spruce that I styled this winter.
Les Siroky's display with evening back-lighting through the shoji screen:
Display by the Colorado Bonsai Project crew:
Engelmann spruce collected by Steve Varland on a trip we took together a few years a go:
A few recent photo's
Left to right: Limber pine (Pinus flexilis), Rocky Mountain juniper (Juniperus scopulorum), Sub Alpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa). There's also a common juniper hiding in the back right, and an engelmann peeking out of the left.
Rocky again:
Sub Alpine:
Black Hills Spruce. Picea glauca 'densata'
Sumac. Tiger eye
Ginkgo
Detail shots of my shohin Limber pine. Pinus Flexilis
Detail shots of Steve's shohin Engelmann Spruce. Picea Engelmannii
Just attempting to revive this thread... ;)
Here's a bedroom display with the same two trees I used in my shohin display for last years virtual show.
One of my shohin tridents. Actually this one is my 5 year old son's tree. In my care until he wants to take over.
Shohin Japanese maple 'arakawa', and a small Ginkgo. Maybe not technically shohin by height and length but it's definitely in a shohin sized container. Literati/widswept shohin...? ;)
Acer palmatum 'arakawa' and Ginkgo biloba
Here are Steve and I's displays from the 51st virtual display. I'm sure you all saw them in the gallery but I figured I may as well add them to this post. I'm still hoping to see you all add more trees! ;)
Limber pine/ Pinus flexilis and Subalpine fir/ Abies lasiocarpa
Engelmann spruce/ Picea engelmannii and Lodgepole pine/ Pinus contorta latifolia
Here's an up to date photo of Steve's shohin Engelmann spruce after potting this spring, and showing off the lush spring growth. ( Picea Engelmannii
I have a couple of his as well. great potter!
Chuck Iker made the pot. He is a good potter, one of my favorites in fact. He makes small to middle size pots. https://www.ikerbonsaipots.com/
Nice tree.
I love that pot Mike! Who made it?
Here's one I haven't shown yet. This is my niece's black hills spruce that I care for (and originally styled).
Here is a tiny miniture Blue Spruce (I think) grafted by Jerry Morris. This is a two finger tree right at the moment. I think I am going to look for a lace rock to plant it on. I have had it for a number of years, just styled it about a week ago. Should get better from here. 4-5" tall?
Here is a new photo of the oak. How do you like the pot?
Here is a new photo, new branches everywhere.
Actually the leaves are really small/tiny for an oak. There are new leaves sprouting all over the tree, hopefully they will remain small/tiny. My other gray oaks have leaves around 4 times larger then this little guy.
Great tree Mike, let us know if you plan to reduce the leaf size! I always find that challenging with deciduous shohin sized trees...
No I did not collect it, it came from Cho's Bonsai. At one time they were on your website. http://www.chobonsaiyamadori.com/yamadori/deciduous
Cool Oak @Mike Horine ! Did you collect this one?
Yes it is a Shohin oak, 7" tall x 8" wide. It has budded out now and the ramification is going to quadruple as there are new branches forming everywhere on it. It even has a couple of oak flowers on it.
That's a shohin oak? It looks huge!
Gray Oaks – Quercus Grisea Bonsai just starting to bud out. Colorado native.