Author: Farrand

Acid lovers

A guide to the wild flowering shrub

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Split in three

Considering the front, planting angle and every different orientation of material is part of the deep fascination of transforming a bonsai.

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Spring

The first cut…

Pruning deciduous trees in the spring. A beginners' guide

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Masterclass

Will that kill it?

The ultimate root correction work of Masahiko Kimura

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Technique

Planted on a plastic tray?

Peter Warren continues with the second major stage of the maple he planted on a plastic tray.

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Technique

Just a plastic tray

Working with deciduous trees is always a long-term project which needs some clever thinking, too

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Articles

Purple rain

A visit to the garden of Amy Liang, the grande dame of Taiwan bonsai

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Technique

What’s happening here?

A different approach to air layering with a 'rough edge'

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Technique

cut in two?

Chiharu Imai deals with a dull bonsai and creates something special

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Masterclass

Out of the box

The pine called 'Okou no kyosho' is brought back into shape by Master Kunio Kobayashi

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Technique

The sleeping tree

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

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Step by Step

Less can be more

A lesson in how to cut more branches for better results

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Masterclass

Wired up?

Improving your wiring skills with Chiharu Imai

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Styling

Two Masters, one tree

Transformation of an Ezo Spruce by Urushibata and Fujikawa

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Spring

A step back to go forward

Maintaining and improving the branching of Japanese elm

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Kusamono

The tongue fern

Ferns as accent plants to exhibit with bonsai

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Profile

My ‘selfish’ dream

The bonsai passion of Jeremiah Lee

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Seed

Turbo grower

Harry Harrington's story of an oak grown from an acorn

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Masterclass

Man of the Mountains

Mauro Stemberger works on a yamadori pine

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Technique

Wisteria from scratch

How to create bonsai from cuttings, grafting and other methods . This time we work with Wisteria

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Styling

Can it be split?

Creating stunning bonsai from garden material

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Technique

In the blink of an eye…

The world of beech (Fagus) by master craftsman, Iemitsu Ooishi.

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Air layering

The bold cut approach

Growing new bonsai material by layering and a bold cut.

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Masterclass

The ‘Mugo’ team

The mugo pine is an extraordinary example of a yamadori, an impressive trunk with some natural shari and lots of compacted branches on top. A real challenge for Matt and Tyler

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Technique

POMEGRANATE

Pomegranate: The challenge is to create a finished tree starting from scratch

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Technique

The scent of a bonsai

Developing a giant gardenia into an orthodox informal upright over three years.

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Workshop

Home grown

Forest plantings always have great appeal, especially when they are planted on a slab.

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Grafting

Walking branches

When Andrea Meriggioli dived into the fascinating world of the Japanese maple, he learned all the techniques of how to prune, grow and maintain.

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Gallery

Top junipers

A gallery with some of the finest Japanese juniper bonsai

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Workshop

The big picture

Follow Martin Nielsen as he takes a simple tree to a bonsai with character It’s a quite an ordinary tree, a locally collected larch of around 70 cm in height, with a trunk thickness of...

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