I traveled to Seattle, Washington last weekend to see the tree that was the subject of the last post–a common juniper named ‘CJ’. Eight bonsai artists from the Pacific Northwest Bonsai Clubs Association in Oregon were invited to show our trees from July 17th through August 5th. I’ll try to guide you through the trees as they appeared in the exhibit plus a few more from the permanent collection that were on display. I have to tell you that it was a typical cloudy day and the sun broke through as we were driving away from our visit 😦 Here are some images for you; be sure to click on the image if it appears cropped on the right:
A little crooked, but a shot of the entry to the collection
The show banner, just inside the entry
A nice ginkgo by Dean Burkhardt
A bunjin juniper by Bob Laws
This is one of Dennis Vojtilla’s trees; I’m not sure what it is, but I thought he said he was going to show a maple.
A Ponderosa pine from Randy Knight
Another offering from Dennis Vojtilla; again unsure what species this is.
A Shimpaku juniper by Lee Cheatle
A bunjin Scots pine from John Jaramillo
Lodgepole pine from Scott Elser, who took first place at the National Show earlier this summer in Rochester, New York
Here’s an overview shot to give you some perspective of the space given to each tree and display
My common juniper on the left paired with Diane Lund’s boxwood
My common juniper
My good friend Margie Kinoshita was along to get a shot of me and the tree 😉
An apple from Bob Laws. This is an air layer from a tree in his yard
Scott Elser’s Mountain hemlock; I believe this tree was also shown at the National Show in Rochester, New York in June
That was it for our aspect of the show, I hope you like what you see. It is such an honor to be included to show in an amazing setting for bonsai…it’s very quiet there and what I like best of all–admission is free!
And as promised, here are some shots of trees from the permanent collection. I’ll try my best to name the species when I can:
Margie admiring an atlas cedar…a big one!
Japanese white pine
A large Japanese beech. I notice most of my photos have a slant to them…better bring the tripod next time 😉
This guy comes in at just under two meters–a large Sierra juniper
A large Japanese black pine from Amy Liang
Massive Trident maple
A Procumbens juniper raft on a rock by John Naka
Eastern white cedar. Love the pot. Large tree
Coast live oak. Fantastic trunk with great movement and shari
Shimpaku forest
Coast redwood, Sequoiadendron sempervirens
Mountain hemlock. Great tree/pot combination
Vaughan Banting’s flat-top bald cypress complete with lichen dangling from its branches
A large yew on its own pedestal on the ground; nice hollow trunk with a twist
Large hemlock, maybe western. Very interesting hollow base trunk
That’s all I’ve got, I hope you enjoyed the tour!
Only just found your blog and I’ll add it to my favourites list. Don’t know how I missed it til now! Some great trees here, and I love CJ 🙂 I think the unknown one is nothofagus antarctica, leaf and bark look right for it.
I noticed someone mentioned the image clipping. As I also use wordpress can I suggest that when you post an image, never exceed 640 in width and they should all fit. This can be done in a post edit as well. Hope this helps
Ian [bonsai eejit]
Ian–thank you for your interest and the tip. I do recall there are options for image size and I may try that. If you click on any image, you will get the entire image, full screen, the way it is now. I just need to remind visitors of that at the very beginning of each post.
Great post and congrats on CJ. Dennis’ trees: first one has birchy leaves; second one is Nothofagus antarctica–Antarctic beech, native to Argentina and Chile. Other species of Nothofagus (“southern beeches”) are also native to Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea.
Dennis’ second tree is Nothofagus antarctica, a “southern beech” of the genus that extends across parts of New Zealand, Australia, New Guinea, and Argentina/Chile. N. antarctica is native to Argentina and Chile.
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Fantastic site. This is my first visit. I found you. Wonderful images of some of America’s best Bonsai, Pacific Rim. I’m glad I found your site!
Thank you Gary!
BTW, I think those bonsai by Dennis Vojtilla are a species of Hawthorn. I could be wrong.
Gar–it’s definitely an Antarctic beech as Al correctly identified…