Tag: root pruning

Spring

Into the core…

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

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Step by Step

Easy does it

Maple, winter hazel and hawthorn are all very easy to grow.

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Technique

All about roots

Hiroki Miura guides you through the struggles of repotting pines, pruning and cutting their roots

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Masterclass

Time for change

Restyling a famous tree into something new is difficult work and an artist must stake their reputation on it

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Technique

Hinoki from scratch

You can propagate and create bonsai from seed, cuttings and by grafting

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Spring

When and how to repot

Finding out for yourself the best time to repot deciduous trees isn't easy. Our smart guide to varieties and their cultivars gives you the answers you need.

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Technique

Gardenia

You can propagate and create bonsai from seed, cuttings and by grafting

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Step by Step

The not so difficult tree

Satsuki azalea has a chip on its shoulder, saying 'oh, how difficult'.

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Technique

Forbidden fruit

The challenge to grow bonsai from scratch: Ficus

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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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Shohin

MINI BONSAI

The charm of the very, very small . . .

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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

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.

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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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Technique

Just a plastic tray

Working with deciduous trees is always a long-term project which needs some clever thinking, too

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Technique

What’s happening here?

A different approach to air layering with a 'rough edge'

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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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Styling

Two Masters, one tree

Transformation of an Ezo Spruce by Urushibata and Fujikawa

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Air layering

The bold cut approach

Growing new bonsai material by layering and a bold cut.

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Technique

The scent of a bonsai

Developing a giant gardenia into an orthodox informal upright over three years.

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Summer

Repot, or not?

When we acquire plants or young tree material, we plant them in pots to let them develop further to allow them to adjust to growing conditions at home. But what do we do when we…...

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Workshop

One became two

Martin Nielsen divides a Japanese maple into two new trees Martin describes his work with a Japanese maple where one tree becomes two. It’s a tree with a fine nebari grown from a seed in…...

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Shohin

Turbo grower

The virtues of the fast-growing Potentilla

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Autumn

Talking trees

What can autumn in deciduous trees tell you about the health of your bonsai? ‘The hidden life of trees’, a book by Peter Wohlleben, has transformed our views of the way trees work. For Harry…...

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Styling

Get rid of undesirable features

Masayuki Fujikawa transforms boring material into a semi cascade Masayuki Fujikawa: ‘The tree shown here is too big to be considered a chuhin, but the idea is not to make it a chuhin for the…...

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Step by Step

Cold and warm

Using rocks to create a landscape, or as an alternative to a pot. With the guidance of shohin expert, Hiroki Miura (Miura Baijyu-en, Osaka) the Japanese popstar, Ayaka Yamamoto, learns how to create a rock…...

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Technique

Bonsai celebrity

How to create foliage pads on the so popular five needle pine, work on its roots and watering It’s needless to say that five needle pine (Pinus parviflora) is a very popular species for bonsai…....

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