Basic skills
Back budding
How to stimulate back budding Deciduous trees In general, the problem that you notice is the absence of buds on
16 August 2024
Propagating
Giant Itabi
How to create bonsai from cuttings: This time we are working with Giant itabi (Ficus thunbergii)
1 March 2023
Summer
Air and light
Andrea Meriggioli shows you how to thin and prune the leaves of Acer palmatum
15 December 2022
Technique
What happens inside?
Defoliation is applied to promote back budding on trident maples
27 October 2022
Technique
All about the leaves
Harry Harrington shows how to improve ramification in deciduous trees by partial defoliation...
27 October 2022
Summer
Left twigs, or right?
Japanese maples with great ramified branches...
26 August 2022
Masterclass
Is this a bonsai?
Ken Fujiwara works on a massive black pine
14 July 2022
Styling
First steps
Pinus Nigra - From raw material to bonsai in 7 years.
5 July 2022
Technique
Just a plastic tray
Working with deciduous trees is always a long-term project which needs some clever thinking, too
14 April 2022
Technique
Pruned by bacteria?
Using beneficial bacteria for stronger, better ramified and disease-free bonsai.
28 January 2022
Technique
A wooden base?
A practical case study of trident maple by Andrea Meriggioli Andrea: I want to show you how correct timing and…...
15 October 2021
Workshop
Upside down
From moyogi to kengai, Martin Nielsen can’t wait to try I got this tree some years ago from one of…...
16 July 2021
Shohin
Think ahead
Get the most from your trees by making corrections for the future. Harumi Ishii (Ueharu-en) specialises in shohin of which…...
15 January 2021
Styling
Anti-clockwise
Harry Harrington reworks a Japanese yew with superb fluting. An elegant 88 cm Japanese yew (Taxus cuspidata) was bought to…...
23 October 2020
