Mr. Moriyama is prominent among Nagoya bonsai collectors for good reason. He has an outstanding collection and he is a great supporter of both local and regional bonsai events, his trees featuring in at least five of the exhibits I visited last fall. At home, these trees are crowded into a beautiful garden setting. If you pay close attention and look past the lush foliage, you can find some amazing bonsai here.
Red pine
Large white pine in a shallow round pot
Ficus
Red pine
Great red pine bark
I don’t know which is heaviest in the garden, but I know I’d want help moving the root over rock black pine below. The stone alone would require considerable effort to lift, let alone pot, tree and soil.
Root over rock black pine – one heavy tree!
Shimpaku
Shimpaku deadwood
Once trees are prepared for exhibit, they often make the rounds. The shimpaku below showed up at several events last fall, often as the biggest tree in the room at nearly four feet tall.
Shimpaku
Not all of the trees, however, were huge as both accent plants and some outstanding small and medium sized bonsai could be found nestled among the giants.
Black pine
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Mary C Miller says
Wow … a Ficus bonsai in a Japanese collection. Pleased and surprised at the same time. Isn’t that rare?
It looks like a F. nerifolia (aka Ficus salicaria) Some of your readers may be interested to know how it became a bonsai subject. The story is on this page: http://www.bonsaimary.com/Ficus-bonsai.html
Jose Luis says
I respectfully differ. I know this tree, originally from Taichung, Taiwan. It is a Ficus microcarpa. The top portion has been allowed to grow taller. Originally from Mr. Chang Yang Chin.
Graham says
WOW,
Perhaps the collective “we” can start the journey for a legacy of our own native trees that will…..over time…… turn into legends on this side of the pacific.
G