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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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12 May 2022

Just a plastic tray

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


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14 April 2022

Purple rain

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


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8 April 2022

cut in two?

Chiharu Imai deals with a dull bonsai and creates something special


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31 March 2022

Out of the box

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


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25 March 2022

The sleeping tree

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


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18 March 2022

Wired up?

Improving your wiring skills with Chiharu Imai


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11 March 2022

Wisteria from scratch

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


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16 February 2022

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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14 January 2022

POMEGRANATE

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


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30 December 2021

Home grown

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


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17 December 2021

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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10 December 2021

Top junipers

A gallery with some of the finest Japanese juniper bonsai

26 November 2021

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 about 5 cm. It is a tree with many possibilities, but with, perhaps, even bigger…...


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26 November 2021

A corky type

The challenge is to create bonsai from scratch 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 completion. This time we work with cuttings of the Nishikimatsu,…...


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26 November 2021