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Tree No: BT039
Species: Trident Maple (Acer Buergerianum)
Origin: Acquired from a club colleague in 2012
Category: Shohin
Style: Root over rock
Size: Height of the tree 22cm / 8.5"
Potter: unknown
Stand: unknown
History: Acquired around 2012 as an immature tree from a club colleague. I had been looking after the tree over the summer and my colleague decided to give up the hobby. By 2016 the root ball had been reduced to the extent that she could live happily within the current shallow oval pot I had ear marked. A basic canopy shape was established about the same time and continues to be developed each season (largely by clip and grow). The tree is intended to be displayed in both summer and winter images.
Date of photo taken: 14Jul21
Tree No: BT038
Species: Japanese white pine (pinus parviflora)
Origin: Japan (imported from Holland 2016)
Category: Shohin
Style: Semi cascade
Size: Height of the tree 19cm / 7.48"
Potter: unknown
Stand: unknown
History: Imported by the owner in 2016 from a commercial nursery in Holland as a basic informal upright. Restyled with a view to developing a semi cascade image and basic foliage dome established in 2016. Refining and detailed wiring have been repeated each year with the lowest foliage pad established in 2019. The 2021 new growth is just about to explode.
Date of photo taken: 13Jul21
Tree No: BT028
Species: Trident Maple (Acer palmatum)
Origin: UK
Category: Shohin
Style: Informal upright
Size: Height of the tree 22cm/8.5"
Potter: Chinese
Stand: Japanese
History: Purchased from Marcus Watts at the Shohin Bonsai Show, Failand, Somerset in March 2015. It was originally air layered and I have been trying to develop roots at the back of the tree by scuffing the bark and covering it in moss soaked in rooting hormone. This has been only partially successful.
Date of photo taken: 7Jun21
Tree No: BT023
Species: Japanese privet. (Ligustrum Variety ibota.)
Origin: Japan
Category: Shohin
Style: Informal upright
Size: Height of the tree 17.8cm / 7"
Potter: Japanese
Stand: Chinese
History: Obtained from Lee. V. Have owned the tree approximately three years. Flowered this year for the first time.
Date of photo taken: 16May21
Tree No: BT022
Species: Maple (Acer palmatum)
Origin: UK
Category: Shohin
Style: Informal
Size: Height of the tree 21cm / 8.27"
Potter: Erin pot
Stand: Ji-ita by Raul Calvo Villa
History: Created from garden seedlings in 2016
Date of photo taken: 15May21
Tree No: BT018
Species: Acer (Acer Palmatum 'Kashima')
Origin: UK
Category: Shohin
Style: Informal Upright
Size: Height of the tree 17cm / 7''
Potter: Bodiam Bonsai
Stand: Home-made, Oak slice
History: Instead of being field-grown into a larger tree, this little grafted maple was grown in a pond-pot to develop the root system for two years, before being potted up in 2015 into a donated round pot.