Cherries in the landscape are beautiful, but almost no-one has flowering cherry as bonsai. You do see other members of the Prunus genus, including P. mume, (Japanese Flowering Apricot/Plum) and Wild Plum, but I almost never see cherries or peaches. I have a few growing in the field across the way.

Leaves are pretty darn big - maybe that's why?

Regards,

Matt.

Wonderful pictures, Jose.

The University of Washington, where I work, has a quadrangle full of gorgeous and very old flowering cherries:



(Photo by Ken Yasuhara)

They're just incredible in the springtime. It's almost like the cherry blossom festival in Tokyo. Someday I hope to have some prunus bonsai that recapture the feeling that one gets looking at these old cherries in bloom.

OMC, you need to talk to Rip, he's the Ume king in our neck of the woods. Maybe he has something for sell you could use. Last time he sold some to the local nursery they were fairly large trunks.

No kidding? Thanks for the tip, Al - I haven't been able to find a source of even half-decent prunus material.

So I'm growing my own from seedlings, which takes forever! But I don't want to wait quite that long.

Rip - you got anything? Send me a PM message...

-Old Mister

Just a thought - I'm sitting here reading over this thread and gorging myself on chocolate-covered cherries that my wife brought me from Michigan. I want one of whatever tree they grew on!

A chocolate-covered cherry tree would probably even make up for those quashed Rio fantasties so cruelly stolen from us in that other thread.

-Old Mister

PINUS HALEPENISI - Upside down - Near Jerusalem (Israel).

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JUNIPERUS DRUPACEA - On the Hermon mountain (Israel).

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Well as every one should know I am a nut for roots and nebari so I went out into the neighborhood and took photos of a couple of tree that I had seen. Don't be suprised that these trees have no tops as all I am interested in is roots. This first tree is J-Black pine.

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This is one of my favorites it is a cedar with triple trunk and fabulas roots I took two shots front and back. First the front.

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Now the back.

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