Japanese shohin bonsai association auction

[Jow]

I was just reading a blog http://samedge.wordpress.com/2010/11/11 ... n-auction/ and came across this year’s Japanese shohin bonsai association auction.

There is a (badly) translated version HERE

Interesting things on offer, especially some of the pots. There are quite a few Tokufuji pots which i am sure will fetch high prices. There are also some very nice trees amongst them as well.

Its interesting to see whats on offer every year.

Enjoy.

[craigw60]

Hi Jow, I wish we could just head down to our local nursery and pick up trees of that quality
Craigw

[Mojo Moyogi]

Thanks Joe, I'm always up for a bit of Shohin eye candy and those pots are sublime. I think that I recognise a couple of those trees.

My question is: could we in Australia produce Shohin trees comparable to those?

Obviously Goyomatsu is probably out of the question, but other species? Would Black Pines at that level be out of reach to us? Shimpaku?

I tend to think that we could, given time and application of uncompromising technique, with a design plan from the very beginning. Of course we would need to want to go the extra mile, trees like that are not 5 year projects, you can't just go to your local nursery and buy trunks like that and hang a set of branches on them (not yet anyway), in this country you would need to be building Shohin like this from scratch.

Cheers,
Mojo

[Mojo Moyogi]

Hi Craig,
you're Still craigw60 I see . Oh well

Cheers,
Mojo