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Grafting a trident maple

At Taisho-En you can learn various advanced techniques. Here Nobuichi Urushibata gives us an example with trident maple..


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9 November 2023

Informal approach with Ligustrum

How to create bonsai from cuttings, grafting and other methods using interesting and unusual species. This time we are working with privet, Ligustrum.


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10 August 2023

Split in two

Yoshihiko Moriyama's transformation of a juniper by using an electric saw


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8 June 2023

Reverse taper

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


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20 April 2023

Trachelospermum asiaticum

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

31 March 2023

All about roots

Hiroki Miura guides you through the struggles of repotting pines, pruning and cutting their roots


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9 March 2023

Giant Itabi

How to create bonsai from cuttings: This time we are working with Giant itabi (Ficus thunbergii)


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1 March 2023

Air and light

Andrea Meriggioli shows you how to thin and prune the leaves of Acer palmatum


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15 December 2022

Gardenia

You can propagate and create bonsai from seed, cuttings and by grafting


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4 November 2022

All about the leaves

Harry Harrington shows how to improve ramification in deciduous trees by partial defoliation...


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27 October 2022

Metasequoia

The challenge is to create a finished tree starting from scratch.


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16 September 2022

Amelanchier

How to create bonsai from cuttings; the Korean juneberry.


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9 June 2022

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