Other Bonsai from Mr. Cheng Cheng Kung

Many of you know Mr. Cheng Cheng Kung for his work on junipers and pines, but he is also very good in designing and creating many other trees as well. First, Bougainvillea Glabra.

Another Taiwan Juniper.

A very famous Eleagnus Formosana. This tree has received many awards.

In Mr. Cheng's garden, he is not the only expert in bonsai. This tree has been trained by Cheng Cheng Kung's wife, Mrs. Chen Yueh Chu.

An overview of the shohin trees created by Mrs. Chen Yueh Chu. Among the trees, dwarf malpighia, premna, small leaf guava and hibiscus.

Another excellent Eleagnus Formosana. This tree was featured in the 2008 Taiwan Bonsai Creators Exhibition.

One of my favorite trees and species, Pemphis Acidula. Training and taking care of pemphis requires a lot of work. Also, they need salt water and won't tolerate cold temperatures.

A beautiful Hibiscus Tiliaceus. Trained from a collected tree and grafted with a better leaf quality tiliaceus.

An overview of the bonsai display. Note the small juniper on the left.

Close up of the Ten-Jin of the small juniper.

A very beautiful Premna serratifolia.

Morus Alba

simply stunning work - thank you so much for sharing it!

Kindest~
-d

Sonare Juniper or Juniperus Procumbens.

I hope these images serve as inspiration to all the forum members.

A huge pemphis acidula. This tree was used as a demo material in the 4th Asia Pacific Bonsai and Suiseki Exhibition in Taipei (Taibei). Mr. Chiu Miau Yu, one of Mr. Cheng's top students assisted him during the demo.

A little corner of the garden. This is a faucet constructed by Mr. Cheng. The key is shaped like a bird.

Simply awesome. Does Ten-Jin of the small juniper mean a dancing jin. It definetely seems to be dancing to me. Thanks for sharing.

Cosmos

ten-jin means (roughly) "weathered top of trunk" .. or a jinned apex. A jinned branch is an eda-jin.

Kindest~
-d

Dave,

Since i know you like small sized trees, i posted the images of Mrs. Cheng's trees for you to observe. Later on i will post some images of Indonesian Shohin and several pictures of very beautiful shohin trees from Mr. Lee, an expert bonsai grower in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Thanks for the rough translation of Ten Jin.

Kind regards,
Jose Luis

Jose Luis, thank you for posting the image of the shohin sized trees! Very wonderful indeed!

Kindest~
-d

Thank you Jose for showing these beautiful specimens. How may I obtain a Premnus?

Hiram

Jose Luis,

Boy, would I love to spend the day with my camera in that beautiful garden ! Thank you for giving us this tour.

Best Wishes,

Ed Trout

Thanks for posting these beautiful trees.
Jerry

G'day Jose Luis...

What a wonderful collection!!! Stunning!!!

Pat

Dave,

Since you like shohin so much, i will include several more images. First, a small pemphis acidula. A small Hai Fu Long (pemphis) of this size and quality is next to impossible to find.