One trend stood out clearly at this twelve months’s US National Bonsai Exhibition: the incidence of North American natives.
Despite their rising reputation over the last ten to fifteen years, natives accept as true with made up a moderately runt fragment of the bushes at the National Exhibition. Right here is seemingly since it takes time to prepare bonsai to an ample level before they’re going to also be supplied at excessive-level exhibitions.
This twelve months there was a correct diversity of natives on sign, so I desired to point of interest on one of the foremost highlights. Let’s start with thought to be one of my favorites, a Rocky Mountain juniper by Amy Blanton.
Rocky Mountain juniper
About a of you would possibly per chance per chance well acknowledge this tree from the 2015 Artisans Cup the attach it was awarded third tell. In the event you’re bright what it regarded fancy eight years prior to now, here’s a photograph from the Cup.
Rocky Mountain juniper
Right here’s one other Rocky Mountain juniper from Dan Turner. This tree gained the Bonsai West award for for Finest Evergreen Bonsai.
Rocky Mountain juniper
One native species I’d playing seeing extra of is Douglas fir. The relaxed foliage and craggy bark continuously jogs my memory of journeys to the mountains.
Douglas fir by Dan Turner
I also explore forward to seeing extra Jap white cedars. The foliage supports diverse approaches to pad building which implies we’ll explore specimens that relate very diverse interpretations of the species. Listed below are two approaches.
Jap white cedar by Suthin Sukosolvisit
Jap white cedar by Mike Roussel – Winner, Kennet Bonsai Award for finest bonsai from Canada
Ponderosa pines accept as true with long been a fixture amongst native North American species attributable to their sinuous trunk traces and dilapidated deadwood. Right here’s a specimen from John Ruth.
Ponderosa pine
Among native deciduous conifers, larch accept as true with gargantuan historical previous as bonsai, particularly in the Northeast. Right here’s a specimen supplied in the cascade vogue.
American larch by Brian Kelley
The leisure species we’ll explore at at the present time is Colorado blue handsome. The species has change into standard for its immediate, straight needles and dilapidated bark and deadwood.
The specimen below, by Karen Harkaway, gained the ABS North American Bonsai Award for finest North American species bonsai.
Colorado blue handsome – container by Erik Križovenský
One other Colorado Blue handsome, also in a container by Erik Križovenský, suggests an ideal larger tree rising in an commence panorama.
Colorado blue handsome by Thomas Ungrey
I hope you in reality liked this short tour of the US National Exhibition! In the event you’re attracted to seeing all of the bushes on sign at the exhibition, you are going to be ready to pre-picture the sign catalog from World Bonsai.
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