japanese yew | Parviflora Bonsaï

Hi! Last week I showed you a few trees from my bonsai garden. Since I have around 80 trees in total, here’s a few more.

On this table I put my conifer shohin. Below, you can see a Japanese yew on the left, a Japanese black pine var. Kotobuki in the middle, and an Itoigawa juniper on the right. I know, the itoigawa doesn’t look like one. I went to hard on it this spring, and now it has a lot of juvenile foliage on it.

Same picture here, but moved 1 bonsai to the left. On the left you can see a future semi-cascade Japanese black pine shohin. The project was originally started in a workshop with Yves Létourneau from bonsai enr. The project was to make a shohin black pine within 6 years. I am currently in the 4th year. I don’t think the tree will be finished in 2 years, but it’s going well now.

Below is an American Larch that was my first collected tree many years ago. It is not an outstanding tree, but I like the simplicity of it and how it is possible to do something decent with very simple material.

This one is a kiyohime Japanese maple. It has a nice trunk diameter with a nice nebari, but that’s all there is to it at the moment. I want to grow it higher and to improve its ramification, to get that tiny leaf size that we see so often on Kiyohime japanese maples.

This is a shimpaku shohin I started as a cuttings 3-4 years ago. It grew rapidly, and now I got a nice little tree with a lot of movement in it. I like this tree enough that I started many juniper cuttings this year and I plan to grow them as shohin.

Here you can see a hinoki cypress, chamaecyparis obtusa nana. I’m slowly building the ramification on this one. I will put it in a pot soon. I will eventually show the progression of this nice little tree.

This tree was sold to me as a zuisho Japanese white pine, but I think it might be a kokonoe. The branches are well placed, and now I got to improve the ramification, especially in the crown.

And finally here is my air layered Sharp’s pygmy all leafed out. Thanks for reading, see you next week, as I will start posting photos of my visit in Japan!

In the winter 2017, I took a couple of pictures of my trees in dormancy. If you have your own personal bonsai collection, it’s always nice to have a picture timeline of a given tree. You don’t always realize just how much progress your trees make with time. So I always try to take pictures of each tree at least twice a year. Since I am still at the beginning of my bonsai adventure (being 29), I don’t have a big build up of pictures to show progressions, but this will come eventually.