Technique
Starting over…
How to improve a small maple by drastic pruning...
22 April 2026
Technique
Fruitful bonsai
Bonsai with flowers and fruits have something extra
10 December 2025
Shohin
Back to the roots
Accentuating the character in an exposed root pine.
30 October 2024
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
Basic skills
Pruning
When the branches of the trees are badly positioned or when they have ugly forms, there is just one remedy …
8 August 2024
Technique
Reverse taper
Miura Hiroki (from Miura Baijyu-En nursery) is a specialist in shohin bonsai. Here he shows how to improve trees with reverse tapering trunks by using air-layering techniques
20 April 2023
Case History
The hollow tree
Field elm yamadori bonsai developed in 4 years.
23 March 2023
Case History
So Immature
Harry Harrington explains the progression of a Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus)
8 February 2023
Step by Step
The graceful fir
The graceful fir is an excellent choice for bonsai.
6 January 2023
Technique
All about the leaves
Harry Harrington shows how to improve ramification in deciduous trees by partial defoliation...
27 October 2022
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.
12 September 2022
Step by Step
A solid foundation
The creation of branches on deciduous trees does not happen overnight, it is a long-term process ...
1 September 2022
Summer
Left twigs, or right?
Japanese maples with great ramified branches...
26 August 2022
Masterclass
Wake up, Sleeping dragon
Mario Komsta works on a yamadori pine, Pinus sylvestris.
3 June 2022
Autumn
Red alert
A twin trunk becomes an elegant moyogi style.
26 May 2022
Care
The Rock eater
Maintaining and improving a rock-grown Japanese maple.
19 May 2022
Workshop
The rough type
The arakawa maple is one of the most popular trees in the bonsai world. Andrea Meriggioli shows why.
29 April 2022
Spring
Beginners’ guide to repotting
Early spring is the start of the repotting season. See our guide for what to do and when to do it.
22 April 2022
Technique
Just a plastic tray
Working with deciduous trees is always a long-term project which needs some clever thinking, too
14 April 2022
Design Sketch
Looking for simplicity
François Jeker takes a look at Jos Sprengers' Buxus.
8 April 2022
Technique
What’s happening here?
A different approach to air layering with a 'rough edge'
7 April 2022
Profile
My ‘selfish’ dream
The bonsai passion of Jeremiah Lee
25 February 2022
Technique
In the blink of an eye…
The world of beech (Fagus) by master craftsman, Iemitsu Ooishi.
11 February 2022
Technique
Pruned by bacteria?
Using beneficial bacteria for stronger, better ramified and disease-free bonsai.
28 January 2022
Styling
Jack & John
British artist, John Milton, works on a white pine in Japan.
7 January 2022
Technique
POMEGRANATE
Pomegranate: The challenge is to create a finished tree starting from scratch
30 December 2021
Technique
The scent of a bonsai
Developing a giant gardenia into an orthodox informal upright over three years.
23 December 2021
Summer
In the Palmatum of your hand
Leaf reduction helps to protect and to gain more ramification. One important technique to help deciduous trees during the heat…...
1 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
