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Buddleja saligna (False Olive)

Tobie Kleynhans, South Africa

This Buddleja saligna was collected from a farm in the Wilderness district, South Africa during October 2002. It was my fourth year of doing bonsai and most trees in our vicinity were seriously considered for collection. We managed to collect the tree with plenty of fine feeder roots and within a month after collection the tree was sprouting all over.
 

Wrightia religiosa - Water Jasmine

Water Jasmine, Wrightia religiosa
Carlos A. Morales Collection 

In the year 2001, I started a water jasmine from a cutting. I was intrigued if I could make a bonsai from it. I cultivated it from pot to pot until reaching a 15 gallon nursery pot. Since my knowledge of bonsai at that moment was primitive, I just let it grow without any styling. When the trunk got thicker I started to style it.

 Buttonwood, Conocarpus erectus

Mangle, Conocarpus erectus

Enrique Castaño Collection

Buttonwood, Conocarpus erectus
designed by Enrique Castaño
Slanting style
45 cm/17.7 inches
Container; Japanese

 

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Ficus Hispida

Mrs. Mangala Rao | India

designed by Mrs. Mangala Rao

Informal upright
80 cm/
Container; Mr. B.R.Pandit studio potter

 

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Ficus Retusa

Mrs. Mangala Rao | India

designed by Mrs. Mangala Rao

Exposed roots over wall
60 cm/
Container; self made wall built with ceramic tiles on self made stone slab 

 

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Premna obtusifolia

Min Hsuan Lo, BCI Director, Taiwan

Common name Headache Tree, False Elder
designed by Min Hsuan Lo, BCI Director, Taiwan
Slanting style
84 cm/ 33 inches
Container; Japanese

 

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Hinoki Cypress, Chamaecyparis obtusa

David DeGroot Collection

“My Hinoki (I call it Walk like an Egyptian) got a new pot recently. The first two right-angle bends were in the tree (but hidden) when I got it from the nursery. When I discovered them I knew I couldn’t fix them, so I decided to go with the flow.”

 

Kunzia ambrose

Kunzea Ambigua, Wind shadow

Ambrose Canning | Australia

Kunzea is a genus of plants in the family Myrtaceae and the species ambiqua is a native plant only found in South-East Australian cool coastal areas. The genus name honours German naturalist Gustav Kunze, while the specific species name ambiqua is derived from the Latin adjective ambiguous meaning 'doubtful' or 'uncertain'. 

Kunzea ambigua is commonly known as "White cloud" or "White kunzea", it is a tall shrub up to three metres in height, with small, crowded and aromatic leaves, and abundant white flowers. Native animals are said to be often found sleeping under Kunzea plants, where they seek relief from ticks and other parasites - hence its other popular name of "tick bush". An essential oil is derived from the terminal branches of Kunzea ambigua. 

 

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Ficus pedunculosa

A song of  spring!

Min Hsuan Lo, BCI Director, Taiwan


Designed by Min Hsuan Lo, BCI Director, Taiwan
Style: Slanting style
Height: 92 cm/36 inches
Container: Japanese

 

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Merto

Sebastiano Villante | Italy

Designed by Sebastiano Villante

Style: PROSTATO
Height: 68 cm
Container: POT TOKONAME JAPAN

 

 Ficus Tsiela

Ficus Tsiela

Shankar Chanda Collection

designed by Shankar Chanda, India
Twin trunk
60 cm

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Bantigue Tree (#1)

Pemphis Acidula

Susan Lee | Philippines

Designed by Nabe Millares

Style: Informal Upright
Height: 73 cm/
Container: Zisha pot made by Master Gong Linmin

 

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Bantigue Tree (#3)

Pemphis Acidula | Bantigue

Susan Lee | Philippines

Designed by Bernabe Millares

Style: informal Upright
Height: 110
Container: Zisha Pot made by Master Gong Lin Min

   

 

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Bantigue Tree (#3)

Pemphis Acidula | Bantigue

Susan Lee | Philippines

Designed by Bernabe Millares

Style: informal Upright
Height: 110
Container: Zisha Pot made by Master Gong Lin Min

   

 

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Bantigue Tree (#2)

Pemphis Acidula

Susan Lee | Philippines

Designed by Bernabe Millares

Style: Semi-Cascade
Height: 76cm/
Container: Teracotta

   

 

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Tamarindus Indica

Mrs. Mangala Rao | India

designed by Mrs. Mangala Rao

Formal Upright
62 cm/
Container; Mr.B.R.Pandit studio pottery ,Mumbai ,India

 

 The Blanton Collection : Eagle's Landing, Juniperus scopulorum

Eagle's Landing, Juniperus scopulorum

The Blanton Collection, USA

Designed by Ryan Neil

Eagle’s Landing is estimated to be 450 years old and its origin is Rocky Mountains, species Juniperus scopulorum. It has been in training for 4 years and the container is Modern Chinese. It measures 31 inches tall by 34 inches wide. Mike Blanton owned, loved, and cared for this Rocky Mountain Juniper until he passed away in 2013. He showed it one time in 2012 at the Nashville Bonsai Society’s Regional Show. This picture was made at that show.

 

Japanese Wisteria

Japanese Wisteria, Wisteria floribunda

Tobie Kleynhans Collection, South Africa

 

This Wisteria  was purchased from a bonsai nursery in 2002. The tree was in quite a sorry state, but as this was the only Wisteria for sale at the time and I had to take whatever was on offer.

It was planted at an angle as a semi cascade in a small garden center pot.
The tree was flowering at the time and the impressive purple flowers and interesting nebari concluded the deal.
Photographed in Spring 2015.

 

 Tree of the Month September 2015

Gingko biloba

Danilo Scursatone Collection

Designed by Danilo Scursatone, Italy
Bonsai Style: Chokkan
Height: 60
Container: Yzing

This Ginkgo biloba was grown in an open field. While it was growing there, the plant was pruned and shaped to become a bonsai. When it reached maturity it was transplanted in a bonsai pot in a formal upright style with its shape refined like a “flame” according to the natural behavior of the tree. The photograph shows the ginko in autumn, its leaf color suggestive of the season.

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Wisteria chinensis (Glicine)

Danilo Scursatone | Italy

The Wisteria bonsai was obtained many years ago by a layering. Over the years it has been refined following the typical style of this essence.

Styling by Danilo Scursatone