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Bonsai Focus 2020-6
Bonsai Focus 2020-6
November/December

The last Giant
Taking a mega juniper from raw material to masterpiece bonsai
Mr Hirokatsu Iura and his son Takashi Iura took quite a risk in creating a marvellous juniper of amazing proportions.

The roof of the world
A suiseki, or viewing stone, often seems to resemble a mountain range in miniature. Its similarity to a rocky cliff or a distant mountain view is amazing.

Is it real?
Bonsai has the magical power to transport us to another world and Patrick Bergsma’s Landscape-Sculptures do just that — but are they real?

Just Clip and grow?
Hawthorn, or Crataegus, is a great subject for bonsai. Easy growing and very forgiving when mistakes are made. It will send out multiple new shoots, giving you plenty of opportunity to grow new branches.

Into the core…
A pine slowly starts to die off, so what is happening here?

Don’t follow the others
François Gau is the winner of our 'New Innovative' prize (awarded at the European Bonsai San show, Saulieu, France). He is very creative and has an amazing collection of native bonsai.

Playing around?
Sabina juniper bunjin rock planting with a playful nature...

Ikadabuki
How to create bonsai from cuttings, grafting and other methods using interesting and unusual species. With the help of illustrations we will see how to take a piece of material through to its completion. This time we are working with crab apple, Malus zumi

At your own risk
Italian, Alessandro Bonardo, now 24, has been an apprentice under Mr Kimura for 6 years and in May 2022, it was formally announced that he had graduated. Within the garden he is affectionately known as Aless. Mr Kimura prepared a tree, an unusually shaped Miyajima white pine for this demo, a transformation to celebrate his graduation

Hokidachi – How to make a broomstyle
Jerome Kellerhals guides you step by step through the styles of bonsai.

Pruning Prunus
Cultivating Prunus from winter into spring..

Master of shari
The bonsai passion of Will Baddeley.

Taming the wild
It is really easy to create a magnificent bonsai if you start from raw material with great potential. There are those trees that at first glance already have the right look. You only have to use the appropriate techniques to make that tree into a high-level bonsai.

A real Washitsu
Designing and building Japanese interiors and furniture is not an easy task.

Reverse taper
Miura Hiroki (from Miura Baijyu-En nursery) is a specialist in shohin bonsai. Here he shows how to improve trees with reverse tapering trunks by using air-layering techniques

The key branch
The material used here is a Satsuki. It is a twin trunk and there are two apicies, but without a clear and obvious overall direction. The first thing to do will be to determine the front of the tree and work from there.

The crazy rock
Watch the video: Mauro Stemberger creates the rock pine

The crazy rock
Something completely different: Mauro Stemberger creates the rock pine

Noelanders Trophy XIX
Noelanders Trophy XIX

Bonsai Focus 2023-3
Bonsai Focus 2023-3
May/June

Indulge yourself in the world of bonsai
The Trophy is back: Europe’s largest bonsai event made a smashing re-entry after Covid

A streetcar to bonsai
Pacific Bonsai Expo holds its inaugural show.,

Spring 2023 Gallery
Spring 2023 Gallery

Chirimen kazura
How to create bonsai from cuttings, grafting and other methods using interesting and unusual species...

Seeds from Fuji-san
Massimo Bandera's passion for Japanese beech.

Bonsai Focus 2021-1
Bonsai Focus 2021-1
January/February

The hollow tree
Field elm yamadori bonsai developed in 4 years.

A beautiful lesson
The bonsai passion of Pierre-Yves Lidec

Is this all?
Hiroki Miura works on a Chinese juniper
At first glance, the featured juniper has great looks; however, Hiroki Miura shows us that when we take a closer look, the tree is really a bit dull . . .