Spring
When and how to repot
Finding out for yourself the best time to repot deciduous trees isn't easy. Our smart guide to varieties and their cultivars gives you the answers you need.
11 December 2025
Report
Touched by the sun
The second edition of the Pacific Bonsai Expo in California The Pacific Bonsai Expo is a regional bonsai event held
19 February 2025
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
Basic skills
The soil mix
Fertiliser and soil have a close relationship, but this fact has long been ignored ...
14 July 2024
Technique
Have no fear
Dealing with wounds after branch removal...
10 July 2024
Styling
All those branches…
A basic guide on the branches to remove and which to use
30 May 2024
Shohin
Back in shape
Thinning out congested branches...
23 May 2024
Shohin
Neat and tidy
How detail work will improve your shohin bonsai...
7 February 2024
Autumn
After leaf drop
A beginners' guide to pruning deciduous trees after leaf drop.
1 February 2024
Styling
Make a forest look natural
The late bonsai Master Takeo Katsumata left behind a great number of works that exhibit his trademark natural scenes. He had a unique obsession...
6 July 2023
Step by Step
Hokidachi – How to make a broomstyle
Jerome Kellerhals guides you step by step through the styles of bonsai.
3 May 2023
Case History
So Immature
Harry Harrington explains the progression of a Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus)
8 February 2023
Step by Step
Bonsai in disguise
Under the guidance of Hiroki Miura, the Japanese popstar, Ayaka Yamamoto, creates the impression of a willow bonsai by using a different species.
8 December 2022
Case History
Out of the box
Harry Harrington works on a very bulky elm that has no tapering. By carving the trunk the problem is solved.
12 September 2022
Step by Step
A solid foundation
The creation of branches on deciduous trees does not happen overnight, it is a long-term process ...
1 September 2022
Shohin
Would you dare?
Chojubai, the dwarf variety of the Japanese quince, is cut in half.
29 July 2022
Technique
Amelanchier
How to create bonsai from cuttings; the Korean juneberry.
9 June 2022
Care
The Rock eater
Maintaining and improving a rock-grown Japanese maple.
19 May 2022
Case History
Dead or alive?
A mind boggling creation,
18 May 2022
Seed
Turbo grower
Harry Harrington's story of an oak grown from an acorn
24 February 2022
Technique
In the blink of an eye…
The world of beech (Fagus) by master craftsman, Iemitsu Ooishi.
11 February 2022
Technique
Pruned by bacteria?
Using beneficial bacteria for stronger, better ramified and disease-free bonsai.
28 January 2022
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...
1 December 2021
Propagating
A good omen
It is a deciduous tree of the Fagaceae family and grows naturally in the mountains of various parts of Japan,...
1 October 2021
Autumn
Talking trees
What can autumn in deciduous trees tell you about the health of your bonsai? ‘The hidden life of trees’, a...
20 May 2021
Profile
A better me
The bonsai passion of Guido Pozzoli Almost like the Karate Kid, Guido came in contact with bonsai through his ju-jitsu...
18 May 2021
Profile
From father to son
The bonsai passion of Lukás Sirotný It was Lukás Sirotný’s father who taught him the basic bonsai skills. While still...
26 March 2021
Styling
On the scrapheap?
Harry Harrington recovers a crab apple (Malus sylvestris) raft bonsai with a new design. I think many of us, as...
11 March 2021
