Yesterday, I met up with Mom and Dad and my brother and sister-in-law to wander the Rhododendron Species Garden in Federal Way, WA. It turned out that there was a bonsai festival going on in the outer courtyard that separates the rhodie garden from the bonsai museum.
Here are photos from the bonsai festival. My understanding is that all of these are owned by members of the Puget Sound Bonsai Association.I’m just including (almost?) everything, since I don’t know what will tickle whose fancy!The information is from the tags associated with the trees.
36 years as a bonsai
66 estimated tree age
Other: stand created by Dan Robinson and Anothony Feilback
20 years as a bonsai
50+ estimated tree age
Other: Urban Yamadori
6 years as a bonsai
unknown tree age
Other: Grown by Boon Manakitvisit, styled at 2016 Convention, Pot by Vicky Chamberlain
Picea Jezoensis
unknown years as a bonsai
20-60 estimated tree age
21 years as a bonsai with current owner
unknown tree age
Other: Import from China
Pinus ponderosa var scopulorum
1 year as a bonsai
unknown tree age
Other: Collected by Randy Knight, Japanese pot
Tsuga Mertensiana
15 years as a bonsai
unknown tree age
Other: Collected in Vancouver BC by Anton Nijhuis
Malus Floribunda
5 years as a bonsai
Air layered in 2015
Other: Exclusively pruned since air layered
Rhododendron Indicum – no – Tsuki
28 years as a bonsai
30 estimated tree age
Other: Imported from Japan, Japanese Pot
I would have loved to see this in bloom!
Tsuga mertensiana
5 years as a bonsai
unknown tree age
Other: Purchased from Anton Nijhuis at 2016 PNBC Convention, Pot by Jan Rentenaar
Larix Kaempferi
13 years as a bonsai
20 estimated tree age
Other: Field Grown at Telperion Farms
50 years as a bonsai
60 estimated tree age
Other: Acquired at PSBA convention 2005. While carving out several large scars, discovered stones lodged inside of trunk. Chinese pot.
10 years as a bonsai
unknown tree age
Other: Japanese Pot (Yamaaki)
20 years as a bonsai
40+ estimated tree age
Other: Japanese Pot (Yamaaki)
24 years as a bonsai
30 estimated tree age
Other: Styled from upright tree
I missed the tag on this one! It’s a flowering quince, but I don’t have the details….
unknown years as a bonsai
75 estimated tree age
Other: Japanese Tokonome pot
6 years as a bonsai
25 estimated tree age
They also had some mame bonsai trees (miniature bonsai trees):
Trident Maple – Acer Buergerianum
45-57 years as a bonsai
unknown tree age
Other: Tokonome pot
It turns out that there is an additional category of bonsai: tiny arrangements of perennials. Here is a sampling of my favorites:
The Pacific Bonsai Museum in Federal Way has some really lovely trees that live there year-round. We didn’t go in yesterday, because there were a lot of people, and there were rhodies to see. But the museum has some truly amazing bonsai trees. I’ll try to post a little tour some other day….