In the winter 2017, I took a couple of pictures of my trees in dormancy. If you have your own personal bonsai collection, it’s always nice to have a picture timeline of a given tree. You don’t always realize just how much progress your trees make with time. So I always try to take pictures of each tree at least twice a year. Since I am still at the beginning of my bonsai adventure (being 29), I don’t have a big build up of pictures to show progressions, but this will come eventually.

Acer palmatum shishigashira/Shishigashira Japanese maple

Ulmus parvifolia suberosa/Cork bark Chinese elm

Acer palmatum select/Japanese maple select

Random trees

Pinus parviflora hagoromo/Japanese five needle pine hagoromo

Acer palmatum/Japanese maple

Acer palmatum kashima/Kashima Japanese maple

Taxus cuspidata/Japanese yew

Juniperus chinensis itoigawa/Itoigawa Chinese Juniper

Juniperus chinensis shimpaku/Shimpaku Chinese Juniper

Just next to it on the left, you can see a Chamaecyparis obtusa chirimen, a hinoki cypress that looks a lot like the sekka hinoki.