Category: Technique

Pruning Prunus

Cultivating Prunus from winter into spring..

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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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Chirimen kazura

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

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All about roots

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

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Giant Itabi

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

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Together we’re strong

Making shohin bonsai with difficult trees...

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Between the buds

Using graft techniques to improve the quality of trees

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Hinoki from scratch

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

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Air and light

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

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Gardenia

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

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What happens inside?

Defoliation is applied to promote back budding on trident maples

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All about the leaves

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

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Rock school

How to create rock plantings: A basic guide

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Silvery bark

The challenge to grow bonsai from scratch: Betula

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Metasequoia

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

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Walk the wire

Learn professional techniques: wiring a juniper

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Forbidden fruit

The challenge to grow bonsai from scratch: Ficus

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Bjorn’s approach

Bjorn Bjorholm demonstrates scion grafting for foliage replacement of junipers.

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Amelanchier

How to create bonsai from cuttings; the Korean juneberry.

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Foil, the key to success

The technique of bending using aluminium foil.

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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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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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Just a plastic tray

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

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What’s happening here?

A different approach to air layering with a 'rough edge'

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cut in two?

Chiharu Imai deals with a dull bonsai and creates something special

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The sleeping tree

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

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Wisteria from scratch

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

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In the blink of an eye…

The world of beech (Fagus) by master craftsman, Iemitsu Ooishi.

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Pruned by bacteria?

Using beneficial bacteria for stronger, better ramified and disease-free bonsai.

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A ‘needle wrap’

Grafting is a very useful technique for conifers such as junipers and pines.

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