Asheville Bonsai Expo 2019

[Owen Reich]

Some photos from this year. Overall quality quite high. Someone else can photograph everything. These were my faves:

 

[Owen Reich]

Well some of my faves....
Here are the rest

 

[Nybonsai12]

Thanks for sharing. Very nice trees. I recognize a few trees from b-nutters representing, nice work fellas. I really like the last pine. Is it ponderosa?

 

[wireme]

Well some of my faves....
Here are the rest

Nice! Good stuff but where’s the elm?

 

[bwaynef]

I took pics of every tree (inside and out) on display. I'll try to get some posted up. Hate I didn't get to see/speak to you today @Owen Reich.

 

[Owen Reich]

Today was nuts. Prepped my demo tree and raced around.
One of the displays I recently prepared. Chinese Elm

 

[Owen Reich]

And the before.....

 

[JudyB]

Awesome elm! Some interesting and unusual displays, how did the mirror display come off in person? Hard to see it in a photo. The uplighted J. Maple also looked like a cool idea.

 

[penumbra]

Same as above, Elm is fantastic. What about the mirrors? In photos they are distracting. What was it like "live"?

 

[WNC Bonsai]

Awesome elm! Some interesting and unusual displays, how did the mirror display come off in person? Hard to see it in a photo. The uplighted J. Maple also looked like a cool idea.

It was a total distraction IMHO. The multiple images behond the trees made it very difficult to see the details. It was sort of like looking at a bonsai in front of a leafed out tree or bush.

 

[Adair M]

Same as above, Elm is fantastic. What about the mirrors? In photos they are distracting. What was it like "live"?

Totally distracting. Of course it won the awards for “Best Display”, because “innovative display” is what this show is all about. It’s NOT about the trees, it’s about “display”.

 

[WNC Bonsai]

For me the biggie was seeing more Hinoki bonsai in one place than I have ever seen before! They varied in quality with a coulpe stunning examples with obvious years of careful development. Here are some photos:

 

[Adair M]

For me the biggie was seeing more Hinoki bonsai in one place than I have ever seen before! They varied in quality with a coulpe stunning examples with obvious years of careful development. Here are some photos:

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For me, the best part was seeing old friends, making new ones, and hanging with other people nutty about bonsai!

 

[SouthernMaple]

Well some of my faves....
Here are the rest

There were some nice trees in the show but I would really like to see a pic of that Deshojo. Will you be wiring it up in Kannapolis?

 

[SouthernMaple]

Here are a few more

 

[Owen Reich]

There were some nice trees in the show but I would really like to see a pic of that Deshojo. Will you be wiring it up in Kannapolis?

You’re referring to the auction tree I won? That one is mine. Been hunting for one for years with some size . Small trees are cool. Small Japanese maples require minions.

 

[SouthernMaple]

You’re referring to the auction tree I won? That one is mine. Been hunting for one for years with some size . Small trees are cool. Small Japanese maples require minions.

well i have only been to 2 demonstrations so far, yours on Sunday(which I really enjoy your candor) and Tyler Sherrods back in September so auctioning off the tree after is common practice, I assume. I would still hope you could post a progression of the restyling of the Deshojo. If you are hunting for large JM's have you tried the growing grounds in cherryville? I know Mach5 has one on his site, I talked to the owner and he said he is done with bonsai and will be bulldozing his farm at the beginning of spring, I think he said he had 3000 trees for 350 a pop, he also has a bunch of 50+ yr old trees in pots, he is hard to get in touch with though.

 

[rockm]

well i have only been to 2 demonstrations so far, yours on Sunday(which I really enjoy your candor) and Tyler Sherrods back in September so auctioning off the tree after is common practice, I assume. I would still hope you could post a progression of the restyling of the Deshojo. If you are hunting for large JM's have you tried the growing grounds in cherryville? I know Mach5 has one on his site, I talked to the owner and he said he is done with bonsai and will be bulldozing his farm at the beginning of spring, I think he said he had 3000 trees for 350 a pop, he also has a bunch of 50+ yr old trees in pots, he is hard to get in touch with though.

WOW. The Growing Grounds is gonna be bulldozed?

 

[quietobserver]

well i have only been to 2 demonstrations so far, yours on Sunday(which I really enjoy your candor) and Tyler Sherrods back in September so auctioning off the tree after is common practice, I assume. I would still hope you could post a progression of the restyling of the Deshojo. If you are hunting for large JM's have you tried the growing grounds in cherryville? I know Mach5 has one on his site, I talked to the owner and he said he is done with bonsai and will be bulldozing his farm at the beginning of spring, I think he said he had 3000 trees for 350 a pop, he also has a bunch of 50+ yr old trees in pots, he is hard to get in touch with though.

wowsers that’s over $1MM worth of material without valuing the old stuff in pots. Hope there’s either a change in course or a proverbial ‘fire’ sale. Live and let live though

 

[Nybonsai12]

well i have only been to 2 demonstrations so far, yours on Sunday(which I really enjoy your candor) and Tyler Sherrods back in September so auctioning off the tree after is common practice, I assume. I would still hope you could post a progression of the restyling of the Deshojo. If you are hunting for large JM's have you tried the growing grounds in cherryville? I know Mach5 has one on his site, I talked to the owner and he said he is done with bonsai and will be bulldozing his farm at the beginning of spring, I think he said he had 3000 trees for 350 a pop, he also has a bunch of 50+ yr old trees in pots, he is hard to get in touch with though.

did he give a reason as to why he is "done with bonsai"?
at $350 a pop it would be worth it for anybody close by to check out the trees in person....