A Japanese Box

[Dave54]

Hi guys,
Just trimmed a nice liitle Japanese Box and thought I'd share the photo for discussion.
Grown from seedling in 1998, always in a bonsai pot and is planted in an antique Chinese Zisha pot.
Not a big tree but one I like as it was pretty well the first mini I designed from scratch
cheers
Dave

[Chris Di Nola]

Nice tree Dave

Great over all balance & very nice pot, in my opinion the Japanese Buxus is not used to its potential in bonsai, with it being so easy to get mature stock.

Anyways

Cheers
Skip

Good Mates, Good Times, Good Bonsai.

[Grant Bowie]

Nice tree Dave

Great over all balance & very nice pot, in my opinion the Japanese Buxus is not used to its potential in bonsai, with it being so easy to get mature stock.

Anyways

Cheers
Skip

Good Mates, Good Times, Good Bonsai.

Spot on Skip, it is definately underused.

[Marc]

hey Dave54, i tend to go for the Solo myself, quenches a MANS thrist!!

oh, btw, nice tree. working on a box myself, hard to find a specimen out of the ground with a single trunk, more often than not they grow a twin or tripple or more trunk when gorwn in a hedge, i find anyways.

yet to see a tree of yours i don't like.

[Chris Di Nola]

Hi All

Hey Marc, below is my solution to multi trunks.

Buxus has nice wood to carve.

Cheers
Skip

[Marc]

very nice... yours?

[Chris Di Nola]

Yep 1 of my faves

Cheers
Skip

[ketutg]

Nice trees! You can tell it's an australian forum when a can of kirks is next to a tree
i have a little japanese box myself. i'm working on the branch structure and ramification.
thanks for sharing guys

[Dave54]

Hi Guys,
Thanks for the nice comments about the trees.
Marc I would use Solo if I could afford it.
Buxus are great in as much as they pad up beautifully and are pretty well pest and disease free. Hardy too!!
I have used the multiple trunks to advantage, selling a triple trunk recently to a good mate which was a really nice tree.
cheers
Dave

[daiviet_nguyen]

Hi Dave,

Elegant is the word that pops into my mind when I view this box bonsai.

I understand that box has some sort of whitish flowers and reddish berries.

Does this one flower and bear fruit Dave? If so, I would be fantastic to see
it in flower.

Best regards.

[Dave54]

Hi D-N
Yes it does get the flowers and berries. Unlike other varieties that need to get long and straggly to exhibit same, the buxus displays on its tight and compact foliage.
Glad you like the tree.
I really like small trees if:-
1) They are syled in the traditional style as against little plants just stuck into a small pot and
2) If they have really fat little bases like some of the Fig photos that I have posted, which accentuates the image of a big tree in nature reduced to a small pot
cheers
Dave