Tag: pruning

Shohin

Little, but wild

Bringing out the best from material with many faults...

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Technique

Metasequoia

The challenge is to create a finished tree starting from scratch.

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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.

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Technique

Walk the wire

Learn professional techniques: wiring a juniper

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Summer

Left twigs, or right?

Japanese maples with great ramified branches...

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Styling

See it from a different angle

Creating the moyogi style from a field-grown satsuki with Masaki Yoshii

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Technique

Forbidden fruit

The challenge to grow bonsai from scratch: Ficus

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Styling

Just drop it

Creating a literati red pine by focusing on the dropping branch

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Shohin

Talking about the front . . .

Be inspired by Yukio as he makes the most out of material. This time we focus on Yew and Hinoki.

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Styling

The garden yamadori

Ralf Beckers shows us there is beauty hidden in the chaos of branches

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Free

Pinus Nigra

Austrian pines make great bonsai; their rugged bark and dark green needles give them a special character.

Propagating

Hawthorn from cuttings

Hawthorn: The challenge is to create a finished tree starting from scratch

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Autumn

Autumn is the new spring

Harry Harrington on collecting deciduous trees in autumn

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Technique

Amelanchier

How to create bonsai from cuttings; the Korean juneberry.

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Masterclass

Wake up, Sleeping dragon

Mario Komsta works on a yamadori pine, Pinus sylvestris.

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Spring

Red alert

A twin trunk becomes an elegant moyogi style.

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Care

The Rock eater

Maintaining and improving a rock-grown Japanese maple.

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Spring

Acid lovers

A guide to the wild flowering shrub

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Spring

The first cut…

Pruning deciduous trees in the spring. A beginners' guide

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Masterclass

Will that kill it?

The ultimate root correction work of Masahiko Kimura

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Technique

Planted on a plastic tray?

Peter Warren continues with the second major stage of the maple he planted on a plastic tray.

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Design Sketch

Looking for simplicity

François Jeker takes a look at Jos Sprengers' Buxus.

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Care

40 questions about Satsuki answered

Janine Droste has a passion for Satsuki bonsai. Here she gives clear
answers to 40 questions on the subject.

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Masterclass

Out of the box

The pine called 'Okou no kyosho' is brought back into shape by Master Kunio Kobayashi

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Technique

The sleeping tree

How to create bonsai from cuttings, grafting and other methods using interesting and unusual species.

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Masterclass

Wired up?

Improving your wiring skills with Chiharu Imai

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Spring

A step back to go forward

Maintaining and improving the branching of Japanese elm

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Kusamono

The tongue fern

Ferns as accent plants to exhibit with bonsai

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Seed

Turbo grower

Harry Harrington's story of an oak grown from an acorn

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Masterclass

Man of the Mountains

Mauro Stemberger works on a yamadori pine

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