A sweet, Dwarf Yaupon Holly
This work was from February or March of this year, 2024. It took me that long to figure out where the comma goes in the title. And which words to capitalize. Not really but an excuse is an excuse. So,...
View ArticleSchefflera for days
Well now, this tree is bigger than my head. Which is saying something, I got a big head. This is what they used to call, in the seasons of my youth, in bonsai, when I was green and learning the words...
View ArticleOmelette
I’ve been asked how I make an omelette.Here you go. Save the recipe To the young @bonsai_evan “Three eggs, beaten, but not like the stepson, just like the middle child. Then salt and pepper to taste....
View ArticleWhy do you do what you do, or, is it a Schefflera, or Heptapleurum?
What we used to call a “Shefflera aboricola” back when I grew up in bonsai, has now been renamed to the oddly hard to pronounce “Heptapleurum arboricola”. This time it was actual genetic testing that...
View ArticleMakin’ my way in the world today
The Orlando Japanese Festival, 2024. Held every year in Kissimmee Florida….. The Central Florida Bonsai Club, my club in Orlando, has been representing Florida Bonsai at this festival for several...
View ArticleIt’s a Hard Rock life, for m’trees, it’s a Hard Rock life, for me
Carry on my wayward sons, or trees….or something like that. Here I find myself in a hotel in Hollywood. Florida, not the hotel in California. Where you can’t never leave. I’m at the Seminole Hard Rock...
View ArticleHoly Toledo, this tree is outta this world
Hmmm. Cosmic Bonsai in the Great White North? I’m in Ohio, and I guess they like outer space a lot; it’s a fact that more U.S. astronauts have been from Ohio than any other state. John, from Toledo,...
View ArticleThe Cincinnati split
We have before us, up in the urban spires in the city of Cincinnatus, one willow leaf ficus. The tree, as is, would be good on most people’s benches. It has a biggish trunk, good branching and a full...
View ArticleWhat and Why, willow leaf revisit. It happened, but it’s in the past
Here’s a tree. Willow leaf fig. Yeah, the one everybody says they can’t decide on a name for. Nerifolia? Salicifolia? Wilowleafyanus? But they did, about ten years ago. “They” being botanists: it’s...
View ArticleSeven levels of a tree
Here’s a challenge. Julie Trigg has been developing this tree (Ficus microcarpa “green mound” or “green island” for many years. Her goal was to create seven levels, or pads, or clouds, on the tree, to...
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