Akebia - the queen of the bonsai

Akebia - the queen of bonsai or a beautifully flourishing Japanese bonsai methuselah. It’s hard to write about the Akebias impartially as bonsai enthusiast. Especially if one loves the shohin size category and blooming bonsai to the point of admiration (more warped shohin fan certainly know why we write this). What can be done, we have to endure that such things come to our nursery from Japan ...

Putting humor aside, Akebia - and Akebia quinata in particular - is a special plant. It is popular for its small and dense inflorescence, also for its spectacular decorative fruit and pleasantly small foliage. It is well rooted, develops beautifully and grows big every year. Nevertheless, neither its branch system nor its trunk thickens rapidly, so an individual with a strong trunk has a very high theoretical value. For summer, it grows a lush canopy that moves with every little vibration of the winds. Its thin tendrils, which start like a long tendril, give the canopy a patterned look from time to time. It is so easy to love its presence in the garden that when the fruit, which can be considered a gracious gift, appears, the sight is natural - although it is not at all. In the last ten years, in no case have we seen Akebia of a similar caliber in Hungarian or international exhibitions, either in collection or on display. Now that the new Japanese material has arrived in our bonsai studio, we honestly admit to all of us who work in gardening that our jaws have fallen off our bonsai properly.

To tell the whole truth, this is not the end of the arrival of our Japanese bonsai trees because they land with us constantly and in several shifts. In any case, you can already see a lot of beautiful trees in the garden and they started gathering in the webshop too! ;)