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Masterclass

The ‘Mugo’ team

The mugo pine is an extraordinary example of a yamadori, an impressive trunk with some natural shari and lots of compacted branches on top. A real challenge for Matt and Tyler


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14 January 2022
Technique

POMEGRANATE

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


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30 December 2021
Profile

The wild side

The bonsai passion of Marcial Yuste Blasco.

30 December 2021
Workshop

Home grown

Forest plantings always have great appeal, especially when they are planted on a slab.


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17 December 2021
Pots

Animated

Giang LS Nguyen learned about bonsai with a Zen monk and this had great influence on his ceramics.


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17 December 2021
Shohin

Winning touches

Morten Albek takes time to go through some of the shohin displays at the Nöelanders Trophy.


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17 December 2021
Grafting

Walking branches

When Andrea Meriggioli dived into the fascinating world of the Japanese maple, he learned all the techniques of how to prune, grow and maintain.


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10 December 2021
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 of the summer is leaf reduction, or defoliation. This protects the internal branches. Here we look at several techniques that can be used. Partial defoliation and shoot pruning to improve…...


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1 December 2021
Design Sketch

From the Rockies

Jan Culek sketches options for the spruce of Eric Schwartz This medium-sized spruce, with its rugged trunk, is a native of the Rocky Mountains of the United States and was lifted from there. Its normal habitat runs from northern New Mexico through Colorado and Utah to Wyoming, but today it…...


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1 December 2021