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Masterclass

Untie the slip knot

The charm of this rather small juniper is the clutter of branches at the base,' Ryan says. 'The long branch on the right with its foliage pad is like a big...

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8 October 2025
Basic skills

University of Wiring

Many will have experience of wiring branch tips and creating foliage pads, but when it comes to manipulating and bending heavier branches, most of us lose confidence...

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16 June 2025
Basic skills

Wiring

This is a technique that’s impossible
to avoid. You are kidding yourself
if you believe that you can create a bonsai
by pruning alone…

8 August 2024
Step by Step

The most popular Juniper

It's almost needless to say that junipers are the most popular material for bonsai. They can withstand lots of work done in a short period of time....

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27 October 2023
Masterclass

At your own risk

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, a transformation to celebrate his graduation

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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.

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28 April 2023
Styling

An offer one can’t refuse

'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'

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1 December 2022
Technique

Split in three

Considering the front, planting angle and every different orientation of material is part of the deep fascination of transforming a bonsai.

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12 May 2022
Styling

This one?

Jörg Derlien’s all too familiar struggle to find the right pot fit for his larch The larch depicted here, a…...

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20 August 2021
Styling

All-American pine

Bjorn Bjorholm works on a pine grown from seed Bjorn gives an initial styling to a more than 50-year-old pine,…...

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12 August 2021
Workshop

Just too long

Jan Culek copes with a tree that is almost impossible to style The pine Jan has chosen to work on…...

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23 July 2021
Profile

Post-apocalyptic

The fascinating bonsai world of Laurent Darrieux. Laurent Darrieux has practised bonsai for more than three decades. His work speaks…...

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22 April 2021
Case History

I have no clue…

When he acquired a Buxus, David Quintana had not a clue where to start More than twenty years have passed…...

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25 March 2021

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