Technique
Complex, but fascinating (2)
A guide to black pine candle cutting, bud thinning...
20 October 2025
Step by Step
Neither one, nor the other
Sometimes you have to make decisions very early on, so that things are going in the right direction. A characterless, one-in-a-dozen hinoki can be...
11 September 2025
Shohin
How to Hakama
Ayumu Fukano shows you how to control the Japanese maple's abundant growth during the summer. The maple featured here boasts a powerful nebari and a thick...
25 June 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
Seed
Sowing the seeds… Oak
The challenge is to create a finished tree starting from zero...
2 May 2024
Styling
Puzzling it out
Dennis Fuchs works on a scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) from Spain...
18 March 2024
Propagating
Hinoki from scratch
You can propagate and create bonsai from seed, cuttings and by grafting
19 January 2023
Propagating
Metasequoia
The challenge is to create a finished tree starting from scratch.
16 September 2022
Care
The Rock eater
Maintaining and improving a rock-grown Japanese maple.
19 May 2022
Technique
In the blink of an eye…
The world of beech (Fagus) by master craftsman, Iemitsu Ooishi.
11 February 2022
Technique
POMEGRANATE
Pomegranate: The challenge is to create a finished tree starting from scratch
30 December 2021
Shohin
Prickly situation
Jean-Philippe Hoareau (JP) works with the prickly juniper The needle juniper or Juniperus rigida, is a far more rugged tree…...
19 November 2021
Technique
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…...
29 October 2021
Shohin
Fine and fiddly
Yukio Hirose guides you through the defoliation and wiring of maples and elms Yukio Hirose: ‘First I will introduce this…...
2 July 2021
Spring
Little to do
During the growing season there is always something to do, even if the bonsai are of a small size. With…...
30 October 2020
Tree guide
Pyrus pyrifolia
How to create bonsai from cuttings, grafting and other methods with interesting and unusual species. With the help of illustrations…...
24 July 2020
Tree guide
Picea glehnii
How to create a twin trunk style tree with a ‘Yatsubusa’ ezo spruce, Picea glehnii ‘Yatsubusa’. In this series we
3 January 2020
Step by Step
Popstar bonsai
Branch development on an elm Inspired by a colourful autumn, we look at how to develop branches on deciduous trees…...
13 December 2019
Propagating
Purple rain
The challenge is to create a finished tree starting from scratch In this series we look at creating bonsai from…...
16 August 2019
Spring
Easy elm
Japanese elm is ideal for bonsai and easy to grow Being a rapid and very vigorous grower makes it possible…...
28 June 2019
Propagating
The many virtues of larch bonsai
Larix is a genus of around 10 species of deciduous coniferous trees from forested areas of the Northern hemisphere. They…...
5 June 2019
Masterclass
Nature guide
Inspired by nature, Kenichi Abe shows us how to work on a pine. Styling a pine into a bonsai is…...
3 May 2019
Styling
RAW…and too many branches
Solving the problems on a satsuki azalea Osamu Fukudate’s (Shunkaen Bonsai Museum) first entry into the Sakkafu-ten received the Satsuki…...
15 March 2019
Step by Step
Celtis sinensis forest
The challenge is to create a finished tree starting from scratch In this series we look at creating bonsai from…...
8 February 2019
