Bonsai San #5

Bonsai San #5
Here is an impression of the annual spring Shunga-ten, held in Osaka, Japan in the Hanahaku-kinen Park and organised by the Shohin Bonsai Association..
Andrea Meriggioli shows you how to thin and prune the leaves of Acer palmatum
Pop star Shintaro Akiyama jumps into the deep when creating a rock planting in cooperation with Kunio Kobayashi and Osamu Fukudate of Shunkaen
Defoliation is applied to promote back budding on trident maples
A (very) young artist creates unconventional pots that are seriously cool.
Juniperus, Taxus, Acer,...
Picea, Forsythia, carpinus….
Use dull material to make impressive bonsai helped by grafting techniques. Here we show you how easy it can be. Pyracantha is in the Rosaceae family in the subset that contains Crataegus. It provides bright…...
A video of The ArcoBonsai show.
Chojubai, the dwarf variety of the Japanese quince, is cut in half.
Be inspired by Yukio as he makes the most out of material. This time we focus on Yew and Hinoki.
Celebrating 40 years as the best shohin pot maker.
The charm of the very, very small . . .
A visit to the garden of Amy Liang, the grande dame of Taiwan bonsai
A lesson in how to cut more branches for better results
Contemporary shohin bonsai pot exhibition...
Growing new bonsai material by layering and a bold cut.
It was a journey of more than 15 years that began with simple native garden material and resulted in a stunning small-sized bonsai. Morten Albek guides us through the many stages of the tree.
Morten Albek takes time to go through some of the shohin displays at the Nöelanders Trophy.
The challenge is to create bonsai from scratch How to create bonsai from cuttings, grafting and other methods using interesting and unusual species. With the help of illustrations we will see how to take a…...
Jean-Philippe Hoareau (JP) works with the prickly juniper The needle juniper or Juniperus rigida, is a far more rugged tree than the Chinese ‘shimpaku’. Its deadwood is spikier and so is its foliage, too. You…...
The bonsai passion of Jörg Derlien Styling and care for the tree should fit together like a hand in a glove, according to Jörg Derlien I bought a few seeds and pots, but this went […]
Getting rid of faults and improving good characteristics Hiroki Miura works on a Chinese quince. It’s too heavy at the top, so that it is not entirely suitable for becoming an interesting shohin. It has,…...
A selection of the Bonsai from the WBC in Saitama, Japan. And a selection of Mauro Stemberger's best bonsai.
The bonsai passion of Torben Brenfeldt His first encounter with bonsai was not very positive, but Torben Brenfeldt was determined to master the art — in particular the art of shohin. What was your professional…...
The meaning and thought behind the display of shohin, or Seki-kazari Morten Albek takes time to go through some of the shohin displays from the World Bonsai Convention in Japan, held in spring of 2017…....
Alexsandre Escudero works on a tiny Itoigawa juniper An average juniper can be changed into something interesting, you just need to have a vision and opt for doing something different to make it less regular…....
Enjoy the colorful Bonsai in autumn