Not all of my pictures from this year's Mid-America Show came out poorly. (For which I'm thankful.) Here are pictures of some of the trees in the display, along with a brief comment on each one.
(If I don't name the owner or artist, it means I don't know the name(s). If you do know, please drop me a comment.)
First, this
Ficus microcarpa gets my personal award for "Tree I Would Most Have Wanted to Steal!" With that vast crown and the aerial roots, I can easily imagine it growing wild somewhere in the tropics.
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| Ficus microcarpa, upright banyan style. Dave Lowman, owner and artist. |
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This next picture was taken thru glass, which is the source of the blue reflection.
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| Chrysanthemum spp, semi-cascade. |
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| Pinus thunbergii, informal upright with bunjin variation. |
I don't know who owns or styled this Japanese black pine, but it's very well designed.
Next picture: this veldt fig definitely has unusual aboveground roots!
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| Ficus burtt-davyi, upright with neagari (exposed root.) |
There's an impression of strength in this willow-leaf fig.
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| Ficus salicaria, informal upright/twin trunk. |
This is a creative way to deal with a lopsided nebari!
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| Buxus spp, informal upright. |
This picture is not as good as I wish it were, but as a ponderosa pine enthusiast I can hardly omit it!
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| Pinus ponderosa, slanting with shari. |
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| Portulacaria afra (variegated,) full cascade. |
The color and texture of the pot harmonize
excellently well with this elephant bush.
Next, another picture taken thru glass. I think this sweet little shimpaku is an 'Itoigawa.' (There is still some debate about the nomenclature of shimpaku juniper.)
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| Juniperus chinensis var. 'Shimpaku,' semi-cascade. |
Ground-level view of a boxwood grove; I can imagine hobbits looking for mushrooms!
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| Buxus microphylla 'Kingsville,' grove planting. |
A very realistic windswept.
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| Juniperus spp., slanting windswept. |
Finally, I leave you with a bonsai that belongs to the Chicago Botanic Garden and is part of its permanent collection. It's a collected limber pine; the placard just says it's "hundreds of years old."
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| Pinus flexilis, formal upright. |
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Great pictures! I especially like the first one of the ficus banyan.
ReplyDeleteThanks! That tree was even better in person. (They all were.) I found Dave Lowman later and told him it was "worth stealing." He laughed, of course.
DeleteExcellent Pics !!! If you have a full view photo of the Kingsville box "grove", I'd certainly like to see it.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mills; glad you like them!
DeleteNo, I don't have a picture of the full boxwood grove, sorry. However, an article on the show will appear in the next issue of the American Bonsai Society "Journal," and I know a lot of pictures were taken for that. There may well be one of that grove.