The Winter Silhouette that Baikoen Bonsai Club present annually for 54 years celebrates the leafless beauty deciduous trees. In this format of a show there is no hiding of crossed or faulty branching. It is appreciating bonsai at its simplest form: the trunk line and ramification.
Cork Bark Elm - Michael Roberts
Nagata Award - Al Nelson
Again this year we had the fortune of having Shirley Quan's cousin Garth professionally photograph each tree this year. Most of the photos are attributed to his work, thank you Garth! With out any other interruption the stars of the show.
Sycamore - Al Nelson
Tokonama Display - Sycamore - Al Nelson
Pomegranate - Jaime Chavarria
Chinese Elm - Frank Goya
Princess Persimmon - Kei Ikari
Pomegranate - Manuel Martinez
Japanese Flower Quince - Tom Lau
Crape Myrtle - Marybel Balendonk
Liquid Amber - Michael Roberts
Korean Hornbeam - Alex Marien
Chinese Hackberry - Marge Blasingame
Pomegranate - Carol Upston
Forsythia - Alex Marien
Twisted Pomegranate - Cork Bark Elm - Kathy Benson
Chinese Elm - Larry Ragle
Chinese Elm - Hank Faucet
Japanese Maple - Ed Clark
Shohin Display - Peter Macasieb
Twisted Pomegranate - Takuo Nakamura
American Elm - Ray Blasingame
Korean Hornbeam - Lindsay Shiba
Chinese Elm on Rock - Khan Komai
Japanese Maple - Dick Ryerson
Trident Maple - Jim Pierce
Live Oak - Joe Galgoul
Suiseki - Nina Ragle
Wisteria - Ken Teh
Cork Oak - Tom Vuong
Cork Bark Elm - Shirley Quan
Japanese Hornbeam - Jim Barrett
Ginkgo - Cheryl Manning