Summer
Second flush
Defoliation and leaf reduction involves the complete or partial removal of the new spring foliage once it has hardened off. It is a widely used...
30 September 2025
Summer
Slimming down
By removing branches to make smaller foliage pads, Harumi Ishii shows us how to improve a black pine (Pinus thunbergi) from an informal upright into a ...
2 July 2025
Shohin
How to Hakama
Ayumu Fukano shows you how to control the Japanese maple's abundant growth during the summer. The maple featured here boasts a powerful nebari and a thick...
25 June 2025
Summer
Too hot or too dry
Bonsai can be in trouble during the summer. Here's what you can do.
How to detect or deal with overheated trees and avoid any further damage. Using actual examples, we will show you what you can expect and what to do...
8 May 2025
Summer
Cool me down
Watering bonsai during the heat of the summer growing season...
29 February 2024
Summer
Air and light
Andrea Meriggioli shows you how to thin and prune the leaves of Acer palmatum
15 December 2022
Summer
Left twigs, or right?
Japanese maples with great ramified branches...
26 August 2022
Autumn
Red alert
A twin trunk becomes an elegant moyogi style.
26 May 2022
Summer
In the Palmatum of your hand
Leaf reduction helps to protect and to gain more ramification. One important technique to help deciduous trees during the heat…...
1 December 2021
Summer
Repot, or not?
When we acquire plants or young tree material, we plant them in pots to let them develop further to allow…...
16 September 2021
Summer
Growth never stops
Maintenance work on a mountain cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa) During summer you need to deal with the dead leaves formed inside…...
16 September 2021
Autumn
The last flush…
Harry Harrington sums up the tasks for late summer and early autumn July in the Northern Hemisphere sees the last…...
20 August 2020
Autumn
Increase the effectiveness of fertilisation
Why do we fertilise and with what? Where do we place fertiliser and what is the most effective NPK mix
23 March 2020
Summer
Pulling the final needle
Learn the basic technique of candle cutting by Master Nobuichi Urushibata Nobuichi Urushibata of Taisho-en, Japan, guides you through the…...
23 August 2019
Autumn
A solid regime…
Bonsai need water, air and sunlight in order to photosynthesis and grow. The combination of these three elements is enough…...
28 July 2019
