Shohin On Parade

Uhhhhh!
Dammed!
Sorry! And thx. for the hint.

Always the same mistake!
It follows me since my time in school and still (I am 47 years old now) I get it not out of my brain .
ANGLE I mean ANGLE not ANGEL
(just to give you a short lesson in German: “Angel” is the German word for a fishing rod)


But all in all you are not unsatisfied with my work? Then it is OK for me!

VBR
Martin

OK. Because of this "ANGEL <-> ANGLE" mistake I surf the hard disk again to find some more pictures to show you some more of my Shohin.

What I found was a Shimpaku cascade and a...a... jepp, such a little....a...."Pfaffenhütchen"?? Maybe someone can help me. A nice tree with red fruit in autumn…..This one is just 8cm and got a very nice ramification.

M


Shimpaku cascade


More in detail


A “Pfaffenhütchen”


Here with a „Zollstock“ (a “ruler” as far as I know….but what did I really know? Nothing!)

Hello Martin. Great shohin. The second one looks like European Spindle (euonymous europaeus) or common Spindle.

will baddeley wrote:Hello Martin. Great shohin. The second one looks like European Spindle (euonymous europaeus) or common Spindle.

I agree, nice shohin Martin. And my Internet dictionary translated it to Spindle tree.

Spindle.... OK! In each case "euonymous "! Thanks for your quick help!
I think.......Spindle sounds much more easy then "pfaffenhütchen"!
M

Martin S wrote:....a...."Pfaffenhütchen"?? Maybe someone can help me.

Very easy :

Type "Pfaffenhütchen" in Vikipedia, you will get to the page about "Pfaffenhütchen", und then, in der left-hand menu, select "English", and you will have translations in many languages.

"Euonymus europaeus, known as spindle, and also as European spindle and common spindle" etc.

And yours is a wunderschön spindle, very good work selecting the branches and so on.

Thx. for the compliment Alan, but the spindle is since january in my collection. So the work was done by some other people. I just cut a few branches and repotted the tree in this, maybe three times smaller, pot (Pot form Jürgen Hilken, Germany). But hard root cutting don't mind this tree very much. I should make another picture because the leaves are (just in the moment!) very, very, very,.....(a few more "very"s) small. It looks so nice when you got it on your hand!

Alan, just a quick question: do you know Thierry? He ist a bonsai enthusiast from France and a very nice guy. Also his wife Beatrice works on Bonsai....

M

Time to up date.



And here are some transformations from my potentillas. It is allways before and after styling












Comments are welcome

Lovely little guys. The first one looks like Chinese privet to me.

Thx. Jim!
So you think my "Paffenhütchen" (see posts before) are for real a Chinese privet? Or is that the same? I'am approx. 25 years with bonsai, but I'am still a botanical doofy.....
M

Lovely trees Martin. Thank you for sharing them. Your "Paffenhütchen" looks more like a Euonymus to me. Likely its Euonymus europaeus. The flowers are telling.

Thank you again for sharing your shohin,
David B.

Thank you Rob, and you All for sharing yours beautiful Shohin, here in my Nerifolia, Suthin work on many yars ago

Hey Al, nice to hear from you. The shohin look great. I think you don't have enough and need a few more.


While I really like Willow Leaf Ficus (F. nerifolia ) I have been trying to add some species variety to my shohin collection. Here are few new (to me) species in work

The first is a Pink Trumpet Tree, tabeuia which has fairly large leaves but I am giving it a shot as a shohin. I can always show it defoliated. Pot by Dale Cochoy of Ohio.


The next is a Clerodenrum in work less than one year. I don't know the common name but I am curious to see if it will make flowers like the house plant types. Fast growing specimen came from Puerto Rico along with the Tabeuia. Generic Japanese pot.



Next are two Nea buxifolia. We call them simply Nea. The first was shown at the US National Exhibition this past spring in my shohin display.
Pot by Castle Pottery in Brooklyn NY. While Nea started in Puerto Rico as a bonsai, these two were actually started as cuttings by Jim Smith. I like the little one in that the trunk has some motion. Nea in the wild normally grow very straight.


The second Nea was entered in the Knowledge of Bonsai progressive styling competition last year. I never saw the results of the competition, but my tree has filled in rather well. The pot is by Dick Reyerson of California.

Great Martin, Alsoares and Rob.
This is bonsai! Dedicated work on the long road, whitout easy shortcuts. Thank you for the inspiration and some very good pieces there.

Best regards
Morten Albek

Hi Rob, Thank you yes I do think the Brazilian going Bananas. I do need a little more the last two Nea is a master piece congrat. I need you and Morten, to sign My Book. Thanks again Al

Rob,

Good job on youe neea trees. I belive it is better suited for shohin rather than big trees, which end up looking like telephone poles.

Tabebuia Heterophylla is ok for shohin. As the year pass, the leaves will reduce dramatically. Unfortunately, you will never achieve a manicured-compact look. When in flower, they are really pretty.

Your Clerodendron should flower, provided that you give it as much sun as you can. Also, they develop roots fairly fast and i suspect your tree might be root-bound. Usually, yellowing of the leaves is an indicator.

Again, thanks for starting this post. I belive it can go on forever!!!

Jose Luis

This my newest attempt.
Ash ( Fraxinus excelsior ). It is at "Morten's" limit of 20cm but i think i can contain it.



Pot is from Andy (Stone monkey) Pearson.

jrodriguez wrote:
Your Clerodendron should flower, provided that you give it as much sun as you can. Also, they develop roots fairly fast and i suspect your tree might be root-bound. Usually, yellowing of the leaves is an indicator.
Jose Luis

Hmm, the leaves didn't look yellow to me but I repotted it anyway today. Somewhat root bound but not stiffling.


Anyway I trimmed the roots and put it back in the same pot which is a bit big to encourage growth.


Hey, who doesn't love a parade. Here are a few more.

This is premma that I have grown from a cutting. The pot was made by a local pottery studio as commemorative pots for our BSF convention in 2004.


Next is a Elephant Bush, Portulaccari afra. I only recently started messing around with this species. It does have some bonsai merit though. Pot by Dick Reyerson of California.



Finally this is Home Depot special. It's a Silverberry Eleagnus with the smaller leaves that I bought it in March 2010 at a local Home Depot. It is coming along nicely although it seems to have slowed down in the super hot summer. The pot is a porcelain clay pot by Paul Kalich, of Jacksonville Florida.

Ahhh!
Great stuff boys! Thx. for sharing. So. Some of you are familar with Shutin. I be one of his biggest fans, but he don't know about this
M
PS.: have to surf my hard disk to see if I find some more.....

Martin S wrote:....
PS.: have to surf my hard disk to see if I find some more.....

DONE!
M
PS.: chin. Elm, since January 2007 "under construction", Pot "finest Tokoname Quality". I got a few more, but I couln't find the pictures.....

Martin S wrote:

Martin S wrote:....
PS.: have to surf my hard disk to see if I find some more.....

DONE!
M
PS.: chin. Elm, since January 2007 "under construction", Pot "finest Tokoname Quality". I got a few more, but I couln't find the pictures.....

That is sweet! What a bonsai. Would love to see a photo of it without leaves. Keep surfing.

Thx. Rob!
I got (as far as I remind) some "winter image" pictures....somewhere here on the disk.
M

And again a Shohin from my little collection.
This time it is a "jap. snowball". I think the name should be also common world wide. The best thing is, that it got really little leaves!
This one I got since 2008 and it was repotted approx. 4 weeks ago in this Peter Krebs Pot (I'am not sure if I have to explain, that Peter is one of Germanys most known Pot-Artists.). The colour is grey with some golden dots(?)

The pictures are from yesterday evening.

If(!) someone of you got also a jap. snowball, pls. be so kind and show me some pictures of the flowers and tell me a little bit about care and so on....

M

The tree:


The base


The pot

Great pics It really makes my day to see such talent and interest in shohin. If I can learn to snap a decent pic without it appearing to have been done so in a tornado, I'd love to share them.

Thanks everyone!

Martin S wrote:And again a Shohin from my little collection.
This time it is a "jap. snowball". I think the name should be also common world wide. The best thing is, that it got really little leaves!
This one I got since 2008 and it was repotted approx. 4 weeks ago in this Peter Krebs Pot (I'm not sure if I have to explain, that Peter is one of Germanys most known Pot-Artists.). The colour is grey with some golden dots(?)

The pictures are from yesterday evening.

If(!) someone of you got also a jap. snowball, pls. be so kind and show me some pictures of the flowers and tell me a little bit about care and so on....

M

The tree:
The pot

Martin,

Peter Kreb's pot suits the tree very well. Sorry I don't have one so I can't provide care instructions.


Here is a combo accent plant/shohin bonsai. It's a malphigia in flower. This cutting (actually 2 cuttings) is 7 years old but has always been in a small pot. The round pot with purplish and white glaze is by former Florida potter Gus Miller.




Close up of the Flower