On a recent visit to the Golden State Bonsai Federation’s Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt, a number of trees with scars caught my attention. The first is a Coast oak collected from Carmel with extraordinarily small leaves. The scar has completely healed over and how adds interest to the already gnarly trunk. Coast live oak […]
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Winter at GSBF Collection North
I was in the neighborhood Sunday for the BABA show and couldn’t resist a visit to the Golden State Bonsai Federation’s Collection North. Tim and large California juniper Japanese flowering quince – Chaenomeles speciosa cv. ‘Cardinalis’ Black pine Turtleback bark Trident maple Ume blossoms Daimyo oak California juniper California juniper