8 BONSAI ON BOARD: BCI 2001 - IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO CRUISE
THE BLUE SEAS
A review of BCI's floating convention and the registration
form are included inside.
12 BEAUTIFUL FLOWERING TREES BEFORE LEAVES SPROUT
Many varieties are recommended for late winter to early spring
bonsai enjoyment by Susumu Nakamura.
16 THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWERING TREE OF CALLISTEMON VIMINALIS
The outstanding bright flower color of this tree contrasts
delightfully with its dark bark, and Mr. Chih-Hao Hsu gives important
lessons on this JAL 2000 Runner-Up Prize Winner.
20 PLUNGING PENJING!
David Fukumoto combines three concepts for this procumbens
juniper: exposed root, cascade and penjing.
22 SELECTING TREES FOR WATER-AND-LAND PENJING: MUSINGS
OF A MASTER
Quingquan "Brook" Zhao and Karin Albert provide
guidelines for successfully creating a water-and-land penjing.
26 HON BON BO FOR SMALLER GARDENS
Lit Phan and Lew Buller team up for this article on Vietnamese
landscapes.
3O OUR SHUSHE PENJING: A NEW ART FORM & OUR PHILOSOPHY
Robert Stevens, Rudy Nayoan and Jongky Sulistio use "suiseki"
with trees for this penjing art form.
32 TROPICAL PENJING
Nature and Budi Sulistyo composed this tropical landscape.
34 TOUCHSTONES OF SUISEKI APPRECIATION
"Suiseki art is certainly different from the simple collection
of stones with interesting shapes or patterns," Jean Michel
Guillaumond instructs.
37 THE WHITE SWAMP PAPERBARK
Derek Oakley writes about his Melaleuca parviflora,
which received the BCI President's Award this past spring.