Category: Technique

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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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POMEGRANATE

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

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The scent of a bonsai

Developing a giant gardenia into an orthodox informal upright over three years.

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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…...

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Is this too right?

The challenge is to create a finished tree starting from scratch Here’s how to make bonsai with rare, interesting and promising species through the process of taking cuttings. The complete process, from selecting the material…...

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A wooden base?

A practical case study of trident maple by Andrea Meriggioli Andrea: I want to show you how correct timing and techniques may turn initially poor material into a good tree you can work on over…...

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Like Frankenstein?

Shigeo Ebihara’s unbelievable method of trunk shortening This operation on an old maple took more than four and a half years to complete. The tree has one major fault that is impossible to solve using…...

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Kengai

How to make a cascade-style bonsai A kengai or cascade is inspired by trees found in harsh mountainous conditions, growing on rocky cliffs. It is this which makes it one of the most dramatic and…...

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