Pinus

Styling

How to slim down a trunk

Trunk bending a white pine literati

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27 September 2023

Case History

Revisiting famous bonsai creations

Articles have long been a way of recording the dramatic transformation of trees, showcasing the skills of professionals and giving an insight into the process of bonsai creation ...

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26 September 2023

Fundamentals

The choice

How to choose a plant suitable for creating a Bonsai.

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19 September 2023

Seed

A smoking gun?

How-to guide for growing pines from seed...

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13 August 2023

Shohin

Are they twins?

Miura Hiroki (from Miura Baijyu-En nursery) is a specialist in shohin bonsai. Here he improves a double trunk pine that has a hidden quality.

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10 August 2023

Report

Is this the future of bonsai?

A new art exhibition at the Pacific Bonsai Museum shows a non-traditional display of bonsai. Titled 'Avant-garden'...

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2 August 2023

Profile

The soul of the mugo

The Bonsai Passion of Ruben Ciezar Villanueva...

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21 July 2023

Technique

Can a pine have Too many buds?

Two black pines with some issues: too many buds and uneven Distribution of strength. Can candle cutting solve the problems?

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12 July 2023

Gallery

The Showa Kinen Memorial Park Tokyo

The Showa Kinen Memorial Park Tokyo; You'll discover great bonsai there, too...

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29 June 2023

Step by Step

Options for a Pinus sylvestris

The Scots pine is a very popular pine variety to work with. It's a vigorous grower and is tolerant to bending and wiring...

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22 June 2023

Tree guide

Pinus sylvestris

In the wild, a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) matures naturally into the same style as a bonsai literati with branches spreading horizontally below its flattened apex.

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22 June 2023

Spring

Into the core…

A pine slowly starts to die off, so what is happening here?

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19 May 2023

Profile

Don’t follow the others

François Gau is the winner of our 'New Innovative' prize (awarded at the European Bonsai San show, Saulieu, France). He is very creative and has an amazing collection of native bonsai.

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18 May 2023

Masterclass

Italian, Alessandro Bonardo, now 24, has been an apprentice under Mr Kimura for 6 years and in May 2022, it was formally announced that he had graduated. Within the garden he is affectionately known as Aless. Mr Kimura prepared a tree, an unusually shaped Miyajima white pine for this demo,

3 May 2023

Styling

Taming the wild

It is really easy to create a magnificent bonsai if you start from raw material with great potential. There are those trees that at first glance already have the right look. You only have to use the appropriate techniques to make that tree into a high-level bonsai.