Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris, is one of the most popular pine varieties and one of the most commonly styled tree.

Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris, is one of the most popular pine varieties and one of the most commonly styled tree.
The Sanriku junipers: Father and Son Omachi work on yamadori trees
'The tree featured here is an eastern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis), which is native to Eastern Canada and much of the north-central and north-eastern United States'
Mauro Stemberger styles a massive Scots pine with a loop shaped trunk
Bjorn Bjorholm works on a juniper with hidden qualities
Learn professional techniques: wiring a juniper
Chojubai, the dwarf variety of the Japanese quince, is cut in half.
A yezo spruce styled by François Jeker and Jean-Paul Polmans.
Ken Fujiwara works on a massive black pine
Maintaining and improving a rock-grown Japanese maple.
The arakawa maple is one of the most popular trees in the bonsai world. Andrea Meriggioli shows why.
The ultimate root correction work of Masahiko Kimura
The pine called 'Okou no kyosho' is brought back into shape by Master Kunio Kobayashi
A lesson in how to cut more branches for better results
Creating stunning bonsai from garden material
According to Todd, Douglas firs are one of the most unpredictable trees he has worked with.
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
Follow Martin Nielsen as he takes a simple tree to a bonsai with character It’s a quite an ordinary tree, a locally collected larch of around 70 cm in height, with a trunk thickness of…...
Manuel Germade re-styles an Itoigawa juniper This very compact juniper, grafted with Itoigawa foliage, has grown out of proportion. The shape of the trunk with its deadwood is very attractive. The main task for Manuel…...
Massimo Bandera wants to work unhindered by convention For Massimo Bandera bonsai is very much an art form. The bonsai artist should be free from conventions and rules. In the process of creating an extraordinary…...
Masahiko Kimura rearranges the foliage around a dancing shari Exploring the artistic sensitivity of Mr Kimura, we take a look at the material he will work on. The transformation is not tremendously dramatic, however the…...
François Jeker styles a venerable 500-year-old Buxus ‘When about to style an impressive old Buxus like this, you are so intimidated that you approach it with trembling hands . . . Over the years, though,…...
Alexsandre Escudero works on a tiny Itoigawa juniper An average juniper can be changed into something interesting, you just need to have a vision and opt for doing something different to make it less regular…....
Jörg Derlien’s all too familiar struggle to find the right pot fit for his larch The larch depicted here, a Larix decidua, was acquired in 2009 and obtained from the Alpine region of Wallis in…...
Jan Culek copes with a tree that is almost impossible to style The pine Jan has chosen to work on (Pinus sylvestris) hasn’t the most ideal branch setting and trunk shape. It is a clump…...
Instead of compacting and downsizing, David Soto opens and unfolds cramped branches We are used to seeing how branches and trunks are bent to bring the green areas closer to the interior, compress them and…...
A very bushy juniper for Mauro Stemberger to style It was January 2020 when I arrived at the small city of Marostica at the foot of the Italian Alps for a demo with Mauro Stemberger…....
Andrei Bessonov’s final work as an apprentice to Master Kimura After six years of apprenticeship under Mr Kimura, this is the ‘final test’ for Andrei, with a tree that was obtained specifically for this purpose…....