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Visit to Daiju-en

September 27, 2011 by Jonas Dupuich

Boon Manakitivipart’s trip to Japan this past winter included a visit to Daiju-en – one of the more amazing pine gardens in Japan. The garden is managed, today, by Tohru Suzuki. Here are some of the stand-out trees.

Daiju-en

Daiju-en (Bob King photo)

Black pine

Kuromatsu

Goyomatsu

Goyomatsu

Shimpaku

Shimpaku

Kuromatsu

Kuromatsu – “Fudo” (Bob King photo)

Goyomatsu

Goyomatsu (Bob King photo)

Kuromatsu

Kuromatsu (Bob King photo)

Goyomatsu

Goyomatsu (Bob King photo)

Kuromatsu

Kuromatsu (Bob King photo)

Tosho

Tosho (Bob King photo)

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  1. Janet Roth says

    September 27, 2011 at 8:00 am

    Jonas, You’re one generation off. It’s managed Tohru, Toshinori’s son. (Toshinori passed away a few years ago.) Gotta watch out for that early-morning blogging!

    • xwires says

      September 27, 2011 at 9:09 am

      Ha – thanks Janet!

  2. LeeBee says

    September 28, 2011 at 8:11 am

    What treatment makes the shimpaku look “mostly dead”?

  3. xwires says

    September 28, 2011 at 8:36 am

    Hi LeeBee – shimpaku take on a brown cast when it gets really cold. The tree will green up again when it warms up in spring.

  4. LeeBee says

    September 28, 2011 at 8:48 am

    Thank you. We don’t get that in Alabama

  5. mc says

    September 29, 2011 at 12:10 am

    very nice collection, thanks for sharing the photos. 🙂

  6. Owen Wightman says

    October 4, 2011 at 12:30 pm

    I think the Shimpaku’s dead too. I bury some of mine here in Northern NJ for the winter and they never turn that brown – even when its zero degrees F outside. I think someone’s live vein is no longer live. It can happen to anyone (even the best of artists).

    • xwires says

      October 4, 2011 at 1:52 pm

      I’ll have to have someone check up on this juniper next time they visit Daiju-en.

      When I visited Japan, I saw many, junipers that were quite brown. Needle junipers often discolor the same way in winter. In the second to last photo, you can see a famous needle juniper behind the black pine that turns brown every winter (see a better photo here: http://bonsaitonight.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/daiju_en-3-of-8.jpg). Several of the trees in Shinji Suzuki’s garden looked the same: http://bonsaitonight.com/2011/09/09/shinji-suzukis-bonsai-garden/. Dead foliage is often a brighter, more golden brown – a color I’ve seen on many broken branches and a number of unfortunate trees.

  7. xwires says

    November 1, 2011 at 5:34 am

    Update: the brown shimpaku is alive and well at Daiju-en. I didn’t realize how big the tree is – almost 3′ tall! I’ll try to get a photo in the next few weeks.

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