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Deciduous bonsai at the Pacific Bonsai Expo

December 5, 2022 by Jonas Dupuich

Back in March, when the submissions started coming in, Eric Schrader and I were thrilled by the quality of the deciduous bonsai.

Deciduous trees, a group of species that includes maples, elms, and hornbeams, among others, are often under-represented in bonsai exhibits, particularly on the West Coast. They are particularly great trees for fall exhibits as they can be shown with leaves in fall color, without leaves in winter silhouette, and for some species, with fruit!

For today’s post, I’ve included an assortment of highlights from the deciduous bonsai on display at the Expo. I’ve included the average scores from the judging panel.

As you’ll see, many of the scores were close. The trees were judged on a scale of 1-5 and the averages here range from 3.1 to 4.1. (The scores used for determining awards were normalized – you can learn more the judging process here).

Images courtesy Julian Tsai unless otherwise noted.

Winter hazel

Winter hazel by Andrew Robson – winner, Best Deciduous Award sponsored by PT Bonsai
(Average score: 4.1) Photo courtesy Aki Yamakawa

Washington hawthorn

Washington hawthorn by Dennis Vojtilla
(Average score: 4.1)

Japanese maple

Japanese maple by Andrew Robson
(Average Score: 4.0)

Corkbark elm

Corkbark elm by Ryan Neil
(Average score: 3.9)

Winterberry

Winterberry by Andrew Robson
(Average score: 3.8)

Ginkgo

Ginkgo
(Average score: 3.6)

Zelkova

Zelkova by Howard Griesler
(Average score: 3.6)

Kashima Japanese maple

Kashima Japanese maple
(Average score: 3.5)

European beech

European beech by Jonas Dupuich
(Average score: 3.5)

Korean hornbeam

Korean hornbeam by Patrice Morrow
(Average score: 3.1)

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Comments

  1. Charlie Mosse says

    December 6, 2022 at 9:16 am

    Can’t wait to receive my commerative albumm. Images posted by others so far have been terrific. The trees and displays….beautiful. Could not be there but heard you guys nailed it!!
    Congratulations on such a great expo!!

    • Jonas Dupuich says

      December 7, 2022 at 9:09 pm

      Thanks, Charlie!

  2. Edd Kuehn says

    December 8, 2022 at 10:22 am

    Thanks Jonas great images of a great inaugural event you guys all did a bang up job. Looking forward to sometime including viewing stones ?

    • Jonas Dupuich says

      December 8, 2022 at 11:45 am

      Thanks, Edd! Good question about including viewing stones. We’re not set up for it now, but we might be able to do something down the road. Thanks for the suggestion!

  3. Vance hanna says

    December 12, 2022 at 2:02 pm

    Stunning trees!
    Yet in several instances the appearance of the foliage mass in reference to the container seems oversized in a proportional sense.
    To a better degree I find the golden section missing and overly large canopies.
    Not to say it is disruptive yet appearing discordant in the architectural sense of better design.

    Overall I do appreciate your discussion.

    • Jonas Dupuich says

      December 17, 2022 at 11:18 am

      Thanks, Vance! That’s exactly the kind of discussion that’s fun to have at exhibits. I look forward to more comments like this as we do future events. Thanks!

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