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| Water lilies in the pond |
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| Roses by the driveway |
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| Reflection |
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| Iris by the pond |
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| Koi blowing bubbles |
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| Bonsai by the entrance |
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| Entrance |
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| Japanese style: niche for bonsai in the home |
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| Azalea bonsai in bloom |
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| Chinese style: Scholar's study--where Chinese keep bonsai at home |
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| Chinese--naturally occurring stone embedded with flower-shaped crystal |
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| Japanese--naturally occurring multicolored stone embedded with flower-shaped crystals |
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| Azalea bonsai with pet |
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| Japanese black pine bonsai |
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| This one was named "Windswept" |
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| Various uses & containers |
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| This bonsai is training along driftwood |
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| Baby quince? Bonsai do bear fruit! |
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| Trident maple |
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| Some kind of blue berries in a plant outside the bonsai house |
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| Pine tree outside the bonsai house |
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| Window inside looking out |
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| Linda standing in the gate |
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| Japanese red maple seeds. |
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| This bonsai is a tableau...note the group chatting under the trees |
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| Many bonsai are trained around rocks |
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| Here's the gang in the garden |
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| Man fishing in the tableau |
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| Here's everybody in the tableau |
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| Trident maple training over a rock |
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| Another Japanese black pine |
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| And yet another Japanese black pine |
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| Trident maples in a landscape arrangement |
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| Big Sego palm inside |
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| My favorite...This is one of the "pets"--a little strawberry plant with wee berries! |
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| Display of various festival entries from local artists |
Great pictures! I love the details you see. I took a couple of pictures of that pine tree outside the Chinese pavillion too. I looked it up in my tree book and I think it's a Chinese Pine (Pinus tabuliformis). That was a fun morning!
ReplyDeleteYou always know so much....i'm looking forward to seeing your photos, too! It was fun, indeed. But but but....wasn't that a Korean pine? There was a Korean something there.
DeleteHmmm...my tree book says the Korean pine has clusters of 5 needles. The Chinese has clusters of 2 and sometimes 3 needles, which is what the one we were looking at had. The flowers and the cones on that tree look like the ones for the Chinese pine, but who knows -- it was a pretty tree!
DeleteFascinating! Bonsai is lovely. Wonder how difficult it would be if I tried to create a bonsai tree? "...in training..." -- I like that expression -- applies to my age, too.
ReplyDeleteUnique blog look you have!
Joared: the "unique blog look" is entirely involuntary. It has been visited upon me since this past Friday morning when I completed my last crossword. snif. there must be some way to control this, but who knows how at this point? not me.
Deletethere must be bonsai clubs where you live! check out http://absbonsai.org/bonsai-club-directory/regional-bonsai-orgs
my friend martha's husband has belonged to a bonsai club in ann arbor for years and is quite accomplished. what i love are the platforms the bonsai are trained upon--ceramic and wood and stone. gorgeous.
Oh my goodness, these little trees are fascinating. I'd love to see that exhibition in person! I think you'd have to have a lot of patience to be a bonsai grower, I don't think I could wait 105 years to see the results!
ReplyDeleteYour blog has a new look.... confused me for a few minutes 'till I figured out what to do.
Shammy....well, come visit. The bonsai houses at the National Arboretum are open year-round. There's another big bonsai festival coming up fairly soon....i'll find out the dates. i think you can buy bonsai at these festivals, but not sure.
ReplyDeletea bonsai artist needs to be patient? yes, I suppose, but also tender and ruthless both.
Shammy...p.s. here's the arboretum's upcoming schedule....many bonsai events coming up
ReplyDeletehttp://www.usna.usda.gov/Education/events.html
When I see bonsai, I am reminded of the slides that Dad had of his time in Okinawa. I haven't seen those slides since I was a kid in school . . .but I do remember them. It was the first time I had seen things like a Zen garden, bonsai and things from a world completely different to mine. Lovely photos! I love the one of the koi blowing bubbles!
ReplyDeletepeggy: he was in japan, honey. maybe okinawa on a side trip, but he was stationed in kyoto.
ReplyDeleteLovely, what a treat. Thank you.
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Cat: Thank YOU!! it's such a fabulous place....
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