Satsuki and Bonsai in My GardenRenewal January 15th, 2011 |
My memorial trees These are my memorial trees. I would like to show both sides of them, because they have very strange trunks and roots and it is difficult for me to decide their fronts. I dug them from the bank of a lane in my grandfather's field when I got married in 1972. Their heights were about 15 cm, their toots about 10 - 15 cm. Since then I have grown a lot of satsuki trees. Therefore they are my good friends which have seen the changes of the world with me. I assume that these trees are more than 70 years old, and that he had planted them before I was born in 1942, and that they sometimes had a lot of soil over them and often were cut so shortly in a year that they couldn't have thick trunks and roots. As I have grown them in the flower pots since then, I am very sorry to tell you that they are weak now and some of their branches died recently. I hope that they will continue to live while I am on the earth.
Thank heavens that we will be able to see these picuteres with my article on the monthly magazine Satsuki Kenkyu in several months. When the publisher announced to the readers that they could present the articles with photos on the page, whose title was "My Memorial Tree," I sent mine to the editor.
Sangosai (front) Height = 43 cm Width = 74 cm
Sangosai (back)
Kasugano (front) Height = 34 cm Width = 62 cm
Kasugano (back)
Osakazuki (front) Height = 37 cm Width = 64 cm
Osakazuki (back)
Kasugano (in flowers)
Osakazuki (in flowers)