35 years in the life of a Japanese White pine. Pretty cool.
Category: Throwback Thursday!
TBT: IBA Fall Show, 1997
What: Iowa Bonsai Association Fall Show
When: 10/5/1997
Where: Des Moines Botanical Center
From right, back row:
American Elm, Chinese Elm, mulberry, serissa Forest, chinese elm, corkbark Chinese elm (mine), bougainvillea (mine), ficus nerifolia (helmet)
From right, front row:
Ilex crenata, serissa (mine), preserved penjing, ficus nerifolia (mine):
From right: my Corkbark Chinese Elm, green island ficus, my bougainvillea, ficus nerifolia.
That Chinese elm on the right? Here is a grandson to that tree; a cutting from a cutting, nearly 20 years later. Nice base.
TDT: Zelkova, 2002
What: zelkova chopped
When: 2005/2014
Where: IA to AL
2002:
Chopped in 2006:
2014:
Nebari Bonsai 