by Lucy | Mar 25, 2017 | General |
Beautiful in spring and summer, amazing in Autumn! This specimen was grown out in the garden for a decade before being styled into a bonsai forest. It stunned me in its first fall — colors of brilliant scarlet! Spring growth is reddish as the tiny tri-lobed...
by Lucy | Mar 25, 2017 | General |
Sublime Spring Color on a rare cultivar! “Shindeshojo” is one of the rare Japanese Maples that leafs out scarlet in the Spring, holding its spring color into summer, then turning green till Fall, with fresh crimson returning as frost touches the leaves in...
by Lucy | Mar 24, 2017 | General |
The joy of spring for a bonsai artist! “Kamagata” has some of the subtlest color changes of all the palmatum maples, as the leaves shimmer in the early spring light. This tree is about fifteen years old, and has been styled to give emphasis to the delicacy...
by Lucy | Mar 24, 2017 | General |
Lorapetalum has year-round interest–great flowers, great foliage, evergreen habit. Lorapetalum is gaining a foothold in our gardens due to its sensational spring “halo” of pink or crimson tendrils suspended above the foliage of this structural and...
by Lucy | Mar 24, 2017 | General |
Winter-blooming white Camellia is s stunner! “Setsugekka” is the quintessential Camellia, with its winter flowers of soft glossy white petals surrounding stamens of gold, giving sustained elegance with its longlasting bloom time. This one is presented in...
by Lucy | Feb 3, 2017 | General |
Our website is ready! This website represents a dream come true for me, a dream of starting a bonsai nursery. After several years as a hobbyist, I launched Bonsai Akira in Portland, Oregon, in the summer of 2015. “Akira” means “clarity”, and,...
by Lucy | Nov 11, 2016 | General |
A beautiful expression of my vision of bonsai as an art form Just came across an article on bonsai as an indigenous art form representing a region-specific expression of the relationship between artist and nature. This exactly dovetails with my own view that bonsai...
by Lucy | Sep 27, 2016 | General |
Bonsai Akira has a website! Welcome to Bonsai Akira! This website represents a dream come true for me, a dream of conveying my passion and respect for the art of bonsai to the online community. I hope to incorporate photos of my work, and some timeline blogs about the...
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