This little gem looks like it might be a mini Mandarin orange tree. Or maybe a Kumquat. No name or attribution is provided

I like small bonsai. Especially when they are photographed handheld to provide some scale. Unfortunately, the business fb site where I got these photos didn’t provide any information on varieties or artists/owners. Perhaps to impart the impression that the trees belong to them. One  photo of a Haruyosi tree even had their name on it. A definite no no (see below).

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Impressive! For just a moment, you might think this is a large juniper. At least until you see the fingers. The background looks like the walls at David Benavente's bonsai garden, though a quick trip through David's site didn't turn this tree up

I know this brilliant quince is a Haruyosi (here's your evidence). Worse than not making any effort to identify or attribute is putting your name on something that doesn't belong to you, which is exactly what was done (I cropped it out)

Another Haruyosi. This time a juniper. It would have been so easy to find the source and attribute

We originally showed this rather spectacular little Shimpaku juniper a little over two years ago. It's not unusual to see a photo of someone holding a small bonsai in one hand. However, you almost never see a photo with two hands. This two handed approach gives the feeling that the tree is being offered. This photo is from Japan Shohin Bonsai, though I found it this time on the above mentioned site that shall remain unnamed

Trident maple root-over-rock by Wolfgang Putz.

Staying in the backyard one more day.  This one is our first backyard bonsai post from 2009 (over 3,000 posts ago), with a few changes today

Today it’s Wolfgang Putz’ backyard. It turns out Wolfgang is a bonsai professional, so his backyard is really a bonsai nursery. Since this original backyard post, our focus has been mostly non-professional backyards.

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This ariel shot shows part of Wolfgang Putz's back yard bonsai display. Clearly this is a labor of love.

This photo and the proceeding one are just two of several great shots of Wolfgang's remarkable backyard bonsai display.

Today it's Harmut Muenchebach's spectacular front yard. Yesterday it was the back

This bonsai garden is so exceptionally beautiful that I’d feel remiss not showing you the other side. This post originally appear here in May of last year

We were going to move on from yesterday’s post until I stumbled upon the photos shown here. Now our picture of Hartmut Muenchenbach’s magical Bavarian bonsai garden is a little closer to complete. Though the photos here are by Walter Pall and Jennifer Price (just like yesterday’s), we found them at a place called Bonsai Mag

The happy bonsai/landscape artist in his rather amazing front yard

When I first saw the photos above and the ones from yesterday, it was the landscaping that caught me. It was clear that Harmut's bonsai collection was impressive, but to my eye his bonsai graced his landscapes. Now, after seeing more photos and taking a closer look, it's obvious that Harmut is in possession of an very large and significant bonsai collection and though it's true that his bonsai grace his landscapes, it's equally true that his landscapes serve to present his bonsai...

... and ultimately, the two are one... a masterful work of horticultural art

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Harmut Muenchebach's brilliant Bavarian backyard bonsai garden. It wouldn't be hard to indulge in a little envy here, but better to just enjoy.

Let’s keep going with perhaps the most enchantng Backyard Bonsai Gardens we’ve seen yet. It belongs to Hartmut Muenchenbach of Bavaria. I found the photos on  Walter Pall’s timeline titled Jennifer Price at Hartmut Muenchenbach’s. We originally featured it just over a year ago.

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Impressive tree in an impressive garden

A closer look at the tree's details

A strong tree and a great rock make for an impressive cliff planting. BTW, that's a lot of tree growing off that rock and a lot of weight to that side (notice how the soil runs almost all the way down the cascading trunk). It looks like the pot is fastened to the platform

Walter (left), Jennifer and Harmut

A little closer for facial recognition

Harmut Muenchebach's brilliant Bavarian backyard bonsai garden. It wouldn't be hard to indulge in a little envy here, but better to just enjoy.

Let’s keep going with perhaps the most enchantng Backyard Bonsai Gardens we’ve seen yet. It belongs to Hartmut Muenchenbach of Bavaria. I found the photos on  Walter Pall’s timeline titled Jennifer Price at Hartmut Muenchenbach’s. We originally featured it just over a year ago. –

Impressive tree in an impressive garden

A closer look at the tree's details

A strong tree and a great rock make for an impressive cliff planting. BTW, that's a lot of tree growing off that rock and a lot of weight to that side (notice how the soil runs almost all the way down the cascading trunk). It looks like the pot is fastened to the platform

Walter (left), Jennifer and Harmut

A little closer for facial recognition

I like it when people offer a peek into their inner worlds. It's a generous act. This one belongs to Zdenek Svoboda. Zdenek lives in  Skalica Slovakia, a place that's a mystery to me

Picking up our Backyard Bonsai series with a visit to Zdenek Svoboda in Slovakia (via his timeline on fb). There are plenty more great photos where these came from. If my count is correct, this is our 17th backyard display. Our first was Wolfgang Putz’ yard, in May, 2009

By the way, if you have a bonsai display in your backyard, we’d love to see it

Zdenek has some impressive bonsai sprinkled around his yard. We can tell it's a pine, but no variety is given

Another view

Ficus benjimina

You can see a piece of the house in this one. Including the glassed in nook with a good view of the yard

Looks like a clump style Japanese white pine

On more view. There are more on Zdenek's timeline

The artist at work

This flowering Privet belongs to Harry Harrington (as does the wristwatch). I took the liberty to crop the original photo (see below) for a closer view

Our talented and prolific friend Harry Harrington is at it again. Here’s his caption for the tree shown here (from his fb timeline)…
“I think this is quite a rare occurrence, one of my Privet (Ligustrum ovalifolium) bonsai not only flowering, but in scale with the tree itself! Collected in 2009 from a hedge growing in West London, this has always been one of my favourite Privet.
Height 14″/34cm, 5″/12.5cm trunk diameter. Pot by Victor Harris of Erin Pottery. A progression series for this tree, going back to 2009, can be seen on my website”

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A bright spot

White of white

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The original shot provides a bit more scale. That's Harry's arm, artfully  adorned

This is what it looked like freshly dug back in 2009. Impressive eh?

Same tree, different angle. From a post we did in April of last year

Stupendous is a good start in the search for words to describe this old full cascade Pemphis acidula by Budi Sulistyo. Ahh, to live in the tropics where stuff like this grows everywhere (well, not exactly like this, but still...). I first saw it in facebook in an album entitled My bonsai by Budi. By the way, Budi lives in Indonesia

I’d venture that we’ve seen as many astounding Pemphis acidula as almost any other bonsai variety. Especially if we’re talking tropicals. Yesterday we featured three (along with some other tropical wonders), which got me thinking. Why not take a journey back to our original Bonsai Bark Pemphis? So here it is, from April, 2010. It was titled, Budi’s Stupendous Bonsai. The closeups below were added today

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Two closer looks at the details. Apologies for the fuzz

A fruiting tree from Budi's album. I don't know what it is, but I like it

Budi with his monster

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