Published by Brian VF
I have been studying bonsai since 1994, in an ever-increasing obsessive fashion. In our last 5 years prior to moving from Iowa to Alabama pursuing a career in the foodservice industry, my bonsai collection was limited to a few varieties that could survive brutal winters outside, or winters under dim light in the dank basement of our humble duplex...my wife puts up with a lot. Including the trailer hitch I put on our brown 1983 Chrysler New Yorker to pull a U-Haul full of trees to Nashville for a 3-month stop along the career path that led us to Alabama. 12 years later, we no longer have the New Yorker; and not a single one of those trees remain on my bench, having given the last holdout to a new club member this summer. I prefer collecting native trees and buying the classical species used in Japan, feeding organic, and reading everything I can get my hands on.
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Nebari Bonsai 
I miss my dear friend, Box Wood.
Hi Brian, Nice tree! I remember seeing two boxwoods similar to yours at Dasu Bonsai in Ames, IA back around 1999. Were these collected at the same time?
Could be. We were given permission to dig up a couple dozen back in 1997-98 down in DSM, and I know Dave was there, pulling them out of the ground wholesale with a log chain. It was a good score; a long-defunct municipal nursery that was being leveled for highway expansion.
I can see why you miss that tree!
Last tree looks like one of the trees from he movie avatar. Wow!! Gorgeous.