Milwaukee Bonsai Society

Please note that this site in mbs is intended to work in Navigator 4.x. I say this not to denigrate that browser, but instead to spare you any frustration you might otherwise feel. This site exists to explore the cutting edge of HTML+CSS design, and Navigator 4.x is, at four years and counting, just too old to keep up with most things that will be done here. Again, there's nothing wrong with Navigator 4.x, but you probably don't want to use it in this area. Consider it a friendly warning.

Milwaukee Bonsai Society Gallery of Trees

Featured Bonsai pictures in this gallery belong to our members. The Milwaukee Bonsai Society, Inc. (MBS) has several levels of capabilities. Our members range from exciting new talented novice to black thumb gardeners. From experience artist involved for the social enjoyment to published, schooled and teaching pratitioners. Creating bonsai is the most fascinating art and our members are eager to help you. We have classes and activities for every level. Fun seekers to dramatic artists.

Yew

White Cedar

Hinoki Cypress

C. obtusa, an evergreen conifer with flat, fan-shaped branches, pea-size cones, and scalelike leaves edged with blue on the undersides. Prized in Japan, rare to find in the US, reaches 50 to 75 feet in height with a spread of 10 to 20 feet, has attractive, shredding, reddish-brown bark which peels off in long narrow strips.

The tree before...

The tree after about 5 hours of wiring and branch repositioning. Sometime the process is incredibly slow and subtle!

Ezo Spruce

Hokkaido, an island in the northernmost region of Japan. There, amid the snow-shrouded mountains of the high country, the Ezo spruce grows. Endowed with superior acoustical properties - a fortunate byproduct of the lofty altitude and extreme climate - the Ezo spruce is both rare and revered.

Due to the long winters, the growing season was extremely short. Since the tree must open its buds, become active and achieve its entire growth in the four or five month humid period from the beginning of June to the end of September, it has dwarfed shapes suitable for bonsai.

The tree in March 2005

The tree in April 2006

Copyright

The obligatory pseudo-legalese: The various works, images, and text found on this site are copyright Milwaukee Bonsai Society unless otherwise noted.