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.

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.
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
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
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.
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 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.
Watch the video: Mauro Stemberger creates the rock pine
Something completely different: Mauro Stemberger creates the rock pine
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Bruno Proietti Tocca works on a native yew
Hiroki Miura guides you through the struggles of repotting pines, pruning and cutting their roots
How to create bonsai from cuttings: This time we are working with Giant itabi (Ficus thunbergii)
This years edition of the big bonsai show: The Trophy
The bonsai pot passion of Kiyoshi Koiwai
Todd Schlafer works on a Ponderosa pine
Restyling a famous tree into something new is difficult work and an artist must stake their reputation on it
Harry Harrington explains the progression of a Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus)
You can propagate and create bonsai from seed, cuttings and by grafting
Masahiko Kimura restores a very old juniper
Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris, is one of the most popular pine varieties and one of the most commonly styled tree.
Andrea Meriggioli shows you how to thin and prune the leaves of Acer palmatum
The Sanriku junipers: Father and Son Omachi work on yamadori trees
'The tree featured here is an eastern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis), which is native to Eastern Canada and much of the north-central and north-eastern United States'
Tatsuo Fukugawa works on a white pine taken from his garden
Pop star Shintaro Akiyama jumps into the deep when creating a rock planting in cooperation with Kunio Kobayashi and Osamu Fukudate of Shunkaen
Bruno Wijman sketches options for Giuseppe Ginnastica's pistachio
Defoliation is applied to promote back budding on trident maples
How to create rock plantings: A basic guide