{"id":12879,"date":"2011-09-23T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=12879"},"modified":"2011-09-16T17:14:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T21:14:11","slug":"morning-eye-candy-chinese-juniper-bonsai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/09\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-chinese-juniper-bonsai\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Chinese Juniper Bonsai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><em>Juniperus chinensis<\/em> &#8216;Shimpaku&#8217;<\/em>. Approximately 20-5o years old, and 18 years in training in the Fukingushi Style (windswept). This beautiful bonsai is exhibited by Saeko Oshiro and Oscar Sanchez.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/chinese-juniper.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"12880\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/09\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-chinese-juniper-bonsai\/attachment\/chinese-juniper\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/chinese-juniper.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1021,680\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1316169141&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.01&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Chinese juniper Juniperus chinensis \u2018Shimpaku\u2019\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/chinese-juniper-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/chinese-juniper.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12880\" title=\"Chinese juniper Juniperus chinensis \u2018Shimpaku\u2019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/chinese-juniper.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese juniper Juniperus chinensis \u2018Shimpaku\u2019\" width=\"580\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Chinese Juniper<em> Juniperus chinensis<\/em> &#8216;Shimpaku&#8217; (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)<\/p>\n<p><!--more Head below to learn more about how to see this beautiful bonsai. --><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/fall-flowers-japan\/\"><em>Fall Flowers of Japan<\/em><\/a> is on view at the Garden through October 30. And while the show in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory is beautiful and serene, it&#8217;s not the only showcase of the Japanese gardening arts on the grounds. At <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/shop\/\">Shop in the Garden<\/a> you can marvel at six utterly beautiful bonsai masterpieces on loan from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shantibithi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shanti Bithi Nursery<\/a>. And while these trees are best seen in person, we thought we would take the time to showcase them for those who cannot make it to the Bronx this fall!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Fukingushi Style Juniperus chinensis bonsai is on display through October 30 at Shop in the Garden at The New York Botanical Garden as part of Fall Flowers of Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":12880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[146],"tags":[451,4693,1777,38,1776,921,4648],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/chinese-juniper.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-3lJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12896,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12879\/revisions\/12896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}