Author: Farrand

Styling

See it from a different angle

Creating the moyogi style from a field-grown satsuki with Masaki Yoshii

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Technique

Forbidden fruit

The challenge to grow bonsai from scratch: Ficus

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Styling

Just drop it

Creating a literati red pine by focusing on the dropping branch

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Masterclass

Is this a bonsai?

Ken Fujiwara works on a massive black pine

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Styling

The garden yamadori

Ralf Beckers shows us there is beauty hidden in the chaos of branches

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Propagating

Hawthorn from cuttings

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

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Kusamono

The beauty of moss

It is a topic often overlooked, but here we look at the moss of Japan

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Autumn

Autumn is the new spring

Harry Harrington on collecting deciduous trees in autumn

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Pots

Straight and fine

Kai Sperling just makes pots. As he says himself, he's a potter for bonsai

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Technique

Bjorn’s approach

Bjorn Bjorholm demonstrates scion grafting for foliage replacement of junipers.

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Workshop

Tied to the Grid

Peter Uden's favourite style is the Yose Ue, forest planting.

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Spring

Acid lovers

A guide to the wild flowering shrub

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Technique

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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