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Thanks for sharing the images Grant, i bet you are suffering a little from bonsai/penjing overload!

How did the Demo's go?

Joe.

Grant Bowie wrote:

Tony Bebb wrote:Good on you Grant.

I'm still sorting my 1200 shots. That Pine garden was one of my favourites. Did you get shots of the toilet

Tony

No, did you?

The best toilet in the world

Jow wrote:Thanks for sharing the images Grant, i bet you are suffering a little from bonsai/penjing overload!

How did the Demo's go?

Joe.

good, Getting there soon. Still lots to process.

grant

Tiger Hill, an old water town with a public display of bonsai and Suiseki.

Sorry, Landscape penjing.

The next visit was to a bonsai show I think in Suzhou.

Lots of very big trees again but the most interesting to me was the use of Chinese elms. Many had huge, completely hollow trunks and had been grown on for many years so that the thin parts of the trunk left had rounded out and looked like big roots.(2nd tree for instance)
After that it was off to another private collection. The trees here were once again humungously big but were very rough. Recent worked showed that they were being Japanified or Bosaified rather than older penjing style. The wiring was intensive, efforts to force backbudding and lots of grafting. The grafting was also to compact the trees but some native Junipers were being completely grafted over to shimpaku. This was the only place I saw where shimpaku(as we know it) was being used. The native jiuniper is lighter in color and coarser.
Huge Podocarps as well, as evidenced by the one at the entry. This collection was only started in 2004 and was in the grounds of a metal stamping factory and home of the owner.

OK,

The final set of images of shows, exhibitions or private collections.

The last set are from Jintan where the convention was held. A new public bonsai display was opened in the first day in a purpose built outside location and other trees were brought from all around china for another display inside the display venues.

The trees inside were fabulous as it was a show of many good artists. Excuse the lighting as it was not great and there were so many people it was hard to get good shots sometimes. The outside permanent display was less exciting and less refined and less interesting.

All through China I saw a lot of what I now call "Yummidori", lots of trees that you would love to collect and work on.

some nice trees there Grant, were they all mainly large in size?

Thankyou kindly for those pictures Grant, they are great!
Those landscapes are amazing

Hopefully this post should get people thinking as im a fan of large trees i really think you can get more out of them im not saying monsters but 80-120cm range ive got a few an love working them. Yeah a bugga to move or re-pot but with a few family or club members it wouldn't be to hard my brother got an olive an is not into bonsai but him an his wife going to use it as a garden feature. Many will say it takes forever to get a big tree to be good but i dont think so yeah you may not have the ramification or the appearance of age like these trees but you will get the basic structure to build on in 1-2 yrs i know i do

Olivecrazy wrote:Hopefully this post should get people thinking as im a fan of large trees i really think you can get more out of them im not saying monsters but 80-120cm range ive got a few an love working them. Yeah a bugga to move or re-pot but with a few family or club members it wouldn't be to hard my brother got an olive an is not into bonsai but him an his wife going to use it as a garden feature. Many will say it takes forever to get a big tree to be good but i dont think so yeah you may not have the ramification or the appearance of age like these trees but you will get the basic structure to build on in 1-2 yrs i know i do

1-2yrs to grow some monster trunk to start refining!?!?!?! where do you live & what species are you working with because I have been working on some of my monsters for over 20yrs & still developing the trunks & nowhere near ready to start refining....