Bay Island Bonsai’s 17th annual exhibit featured small, kifu, and medium-sized bonsai. The larger trees got a break this year. Here, then, are the largest trees on display – the medium-sized bonsai. Black pine White pine Shimpaku grafted on Sierra juniper displayed with Boston Ivy Shimpaku grafted on Sierra juniper – great character Shimpaku saikei Dwarf Sawara cypress […]
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Not too big, not too small – Kifu bonsai at BIB exhibit
Kifu bonsai don’t get a lot of attention. They are the trees that are a bit larger than shohin, but shorter than the medium sized bonsai. They are generally between 8 and 12 inches tall. The increased size allows for a bit more character and complexity than shohin trees, but they still work on a […]
Shohin bonsai at BIB’s 17th annual exhibit
The focus of this year’s Bay Island Bonsai exhibit was on smaller trees – shohin, kifu and chuhin, or medium-sized bonsai. This meant a couple of things for members: there would be no lifting of heavy trees (easy), but we’d need far more trees than normal to fill the exhibit hall (tricky). Altogether, BIB members […]
Show trees and accents
For this year’s Bay Island Bonsai exhibit, I displayed six trees and four accents. Two of the accents were created for past exhibits while the other (smaller) two came together just before the show. The trees, on the other hand, have all been in my collection for some time. Two of the pines are the same […]
Refining a Sierra juniper
Ned Lycett was one of the happy exhibitors at the inaugural Artisans Cup held in Portland, Oregon, last month. The tree he displayed was a Sierra juniper he collected in 2006. Here is the tree as presented at the Cup. Sierra juniper by Ned Lycett aka Deadwood Bonsai This month, Ned got to work on […]