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Say hi if you see me. I'm wearing a grey shirt with a blue logo.
Shoot! I was on that tour! Where is that bonsainut shirt when you need it?Some of the behind-the-scenes bonsai maintenance areas at the Huntington...
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Mike in front of the "we're going to need a bigger pot" pot.
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Smallest azalea I have ever seen...
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Shoot! I was on that tour! Where is that bonsainut shirt when you need it?
Those look like San Gabriel Nursery trees. I go to their nursery all the time--used to go at least twice a month when I had more time.Walked away with all these for 19$! Couldnt be happier!View attachment 133672 View attachment 133674
Day 2 Bonsai-a-thon:
Observer turned volunteer turned pseudo-demonstrator. Stopped by in the morning to check out the demos and ended up helping out Bob work on a tree. I applied raffia, wire (to the best of my ability), and cleaned up branching with the expectation that Mr. Pressler would be styling the tree. He ended up giving it to me in the end! Its a nice kishu grafted onto prostrata root stock. Good potential as a semi-cascade but I'm thinking windswept possibly. I'll figure it out after some time. I had a really good time meeting more people in the bonsai community. I met Helen Barrett (Jim Barrett's wife) and talked to her for a good bit. Everyone was very friendly and I had a great time. Many thank to Bob for letting me work on the tree, not to mention taking it home
Bob was working on the bottlebrush while I finished applying raffia.
I did not have the chance to take nicer photos of the tree, maybe @bonsaibp has some nicer shots of the tree and the event. Hope I was able to meet some other nutters. For now I'll feed the tree, keep it in good health, and on my next free weekend I'll think about styling options since wire and raffia is already fully applied.
Why in the hell does everyone have a picture of Colin? I think he is making a hi-level deal on his phone with a proxy bidder on a tree yet to be disclosed.
The Fraser caught staring in the background
The most photographed guy at the show
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