Shibui - Autumn 2025

[Shibui]

It has been a long, dry, warm end to our growing season down here. Still no significant rain and nights staying quite warm. I thought w might even miss out on deciduous colour this season but a couple of cooler nights this week seem to have finally triggered some autumn colour in the bonsai garden.

Japanese maples


Trident maples:
Medium size

Shohin and mame


Ginkgo


Parrotia

 

[Bonsai Nut]

Thank you for sharing... but perhaps this beautiful post belongs in the general forum, and not the Tea House?

 

[Shibui]

Thank you for sharing... but perhaps this beautiful post belongs in the general forum, and not the Tea House?

Thanks for the pointer and moving the thread to a more appropriate category. When I searched the forum categories I couldn't find any I thought fitted. Obviously I missed general discussion when I first looked.
In the end, does it matter which subheading a thread is filed under? Maybe others search differently to me?

 

[Paradox]

Thanks for the pointer and moving the thread to a more appropriate category. When I searched the forum categories I couldn't find any I thought fitted. Obviously I missed general discussion when I first looked.
In the end, does it matter which subheading a thread is filed under? Maybe others search differently to me?

The teahouse is generally for off topic posts unrelated to bonsai.
This does belong in the general discussion forum imo

 

[MGTT]

Pics 7&8, wow! Very nice looking trees.

The coloring of the Gingko is amazing, and a beautiful contrast to the color of the pot.

 

[Shibui]

Some more Autumn colour. Some a little past their best today.




I think this would be my oldest Japanese maple. Styled well before I realised that JM do not normally grow as informal upright trees so this is a case of a tree styled to look like a 'bonsai' rather than a bonsai styled to look like a real tree.

It is also grafted. Can you spot the graft?
Display stand made by Shibui from Australian hardwoods.

 

[Cajunrider]

I am having a cup of tea and enjoying your trees.
Thank you!

 

[UncleTrout]

Wow your trees are beautiful!

 

[Shibui]

Autumn is progressing as normal. Deciduous colours fading and the leaves falling.
Bare branches means time to trim what was hidden under those leaves all Summer.
Tridents usually the first to get naked so those are the trees I've been trimming this week.
These photos after removing long shoots and any reduction I considered appropriate.

Most of my original trident bonsai have more or less vertical trunks so, a few years ago, I set out to develop a tree with a more dynamic trunk line. Ramification is getting there now.


Smaller tridents:




Dead wood is not often a feature in deciduous species but this hollow trunk was just too good to scrap


Smaller tridents