Pisa & Pescia

Yesterday's saturday was intended for a visit to Italy. The first destination of the day vas Pisa and it's famous leaning tower.


The second and main destination was a visit of Franchi bonsai center in Pesca. This weekent there were meny activities taking place: an exhibition, and a workshop and demonstration held by the famous Japaneese bonsai artist SHINJI SUZUKI.
There were even other Italian artists that took a look. Stamberger, Sagneri, Bonini ...

The sales offer.

The museum collection

The exhibition

Me, Shinji Suzuki and the workshop

Repotting

The wether is getting warmer, the snow is melting. The repotting time has come.

Shohin taxus - before & after

On the pics below you can see the development of a shohin yew from lastyear's summer when the shari was created, untill today when it was repotted.

Trident in new pot

Title says it all...

before

after