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Technique

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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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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Split in two

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


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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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Trachelospermum asiaticum

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

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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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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All about the leaves

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


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Metasequoia

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


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Amelanchier

How to create bonsai from cuttings; the Korean juneberry.


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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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Just a plastic tray

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


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