Tag: Shohin

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

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Indulge yourself in the world of bonsai

The Trophy is back: Europe’s largest bonsai event made a smashing re-entry after Covid

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A streetcar to bonsai

Pacific Bonsai Expo holds its inaugural show.,

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Chirimen kazura

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

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Styling

Is this all?

Hiroki Miura works on a Chinese juniper

At first glance, the featured juniper has great looks; however, Hiroki Miura shows us that when we take a closer look, the tree is really a bit dull . . .

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Giant Itabi

How to create bonsai from cuttings: This time we are working with Giant itabi (Ficus thunbergii)

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And the winner is….

This years edition of the big bonsai show: The Trophy

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Thinner than thin

The bonsai pot passion of Kiyoshi Koiwai

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Together we’re strong

Making shohin bonsai with difficult trees...

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Between the buds

Using graft techniques to improve the quality of trees

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A Bonsai paradise

A selection of the amazing bonsai from the Bonsai San show in France

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Burst into life – The beauty of fresh leaves and flowers in spring

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..

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Air and light

Andrea Meriggioli shows you how to thin and prune the leaves of Acer palmatum

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Pop or rock?

Pop star Shintaro Akiyama jumps into the deep when creating a rock planting in cooperation with Kunio Kobayashi and Osamu Fukudate of Shunkaen

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What happens inside?

Defoliation is applied to promote back budding on trident maples

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Kid’s play or pot?

A (very) young artist creates unconventional pots that are seriously cool.

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Italian beauties in Arco

Juniperus, Taxus, Acer,...

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Dutch design

Picea, Forsythia, carpinus….

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Creating shohin from faulty material

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…...

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ArcoBonsai ’22

A video of The ArcoBonsai show.

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Would you dare?

Chojubai, the dwarf variety of the Japanese quince, is cut in half.

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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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The best pots in town

Celebrating 40 years as the best shohin pot maker.

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MINI BONSAI

The charm of the very, very small . . .

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Purple rain

A visit to the garden of Amy Liang, the grande dame of Taiwan bonsai

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AKI-TEN

Step by Step

Less can be more

A lesson in how to cut more branches for better results

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Big in Japan

Contemporary shohin bonsai pot exhibition...

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Air layering

The bold cut approach

Growing new bonsai material by layering and a bold cut.

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Going wild

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.

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