2006 Fall Bonsai Show (and Sale)

     Saturday and Sunday, September 23 & 24, 2006, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
     Worner Student Center, Colorado College, 902 N. Cascade Ave.

Part of the overall display.  All these photos are courtesy of Cliff Broyles.

    
This was our fourth annual show at this venue.

     Fifty-four compositions were displayed courtesy of eleven members.  The trees included the following:
Boxwood and a boxwood forest, Dwarf Alberta spruce and a 3-tree spruce and a spruce forest, Red cedar forest, Japanese white pine, Dawrf schefflera, Bristlecone pine, Green mound juniper (3), Rhododendron, Limber pine, Australian bush cherry, Ponderosa pine (6, including one informal upright 175 yr old and in training for a year which due to a long root hangs at the edge of its pot, and one 150 yr old specimen in training for 5 yrs), Narrow-leaf fig, Bougainvillea, Dwarf garden juniper (2), Jade forest, Green Japanese maple, Japanese maple forest (in fall color above right of center, see also 2005 show), Scots pine (2), Buttonwood (2), English yew, Japanese black pine (2), Spruce, Live oak, Fukien tea, English ivy, Japanese red pine, Blue spruce, accessory plants (3), Aspen, Ficus (2), Chinese weeping elm, shohin European olive, plus the trees below.

The "grand old man," an estimated 400 yr old Colorado blue spruce collected within the past two years in the Tarryall Mountains to the northwest of Colorado Springs.  It was dug up surprisingly easily -- which balanced the 3 hours which were needed to carry this 3-man tree down from its long-term perch. A large informal upright, it has a 4" diameter lichen-patched trunk and measures 24"H x 36"W x 36"D.

Lace-leaf Japanese maple.	Grape.

Douglas fir saikei	Exposed-root cascade Chinese 'Catlin' elm.
Banyan with aerial roots.	3-tree American larch composition.
Japanese black pine.	Aspens.

A 250 yr old and 6 yr in training Rocky Mtn. juniper 2'H with naturally bleached jin and shari.

2005 Show Pictures

2007 Show Pictures

2008 Show Pictures

                          © 2006  Pikes Peak Bonsai Society