Spring Shoots
This was taken on Washington Island, Door County, WI, near the end of May, 2008. This was in a relatively heavily forested area on the highest hill on the island. I really like the contrast. Also, this reminds me of one of our summer projects. We are growing some trees from seeds found in the neighborhood with the intention of doing some bonsai. We have a couple different kinds of maple trees, a few elms, one conifer (came up almost by accident), and a bunch of cottonwoods (many of which planted themselves). The young shoots look similar to our young elm trees.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:57 am
I thought you had to have some sort of pygmy or dwarf trees to do bonsai?
August 4th, 2008 at 11:41 am
No, not necessarily. I’ve seen where people even trained ordinarily huge trees like giant sequoias and baobabs to be little bonsai trees! A dwarf strain can make things easier, though.
August 6th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
What a fun little hobby that must be! Look out, Beetlejuice.