Shohin

Shohin

Strapped tight

How to fix a black pine that is rather too dull…

6 October 2023

Air layering

Repairing a damaged maple

When leaf pruning a trident maple, mistakes and faults can become more noticeable. A comeback is planned as we go back to square one.

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7 September 2023

Technique

Informal approach with Ligustrum

How to create bonsai from cuttings, grafting and other methods using interesting and unusual species. This time we are working with privet, Ligustrum.

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10 August 2023

Gallery

The Showa Kinen Memorial Park Tokyo

The Showa Kinen Memorial Park Tokyo; You'll discover great bonsai there, too...

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29 June 2023

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

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20 April 2023

Report

Indulge yourself in the world of bonsai

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

7 April 2023

Gallery

A streetcar to bonsai

Pacific Bonsai Expo holds its inaugural show.,

6 April 2023

Technique

Trachelospermum asiaticum

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

31 March 2023

Shohin

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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17 March 2023

Propagating

Giant Itabi

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

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1 March 2023

Report

And the winner is….

This years edition of the big bonsai show: The Trophy 2023

28 February 2023

Pots

Thinner than thin

The bonsai pot passion of Kiyoshi Koiwai

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23 February 2023

Shohin

Together we’re strong

Making shohin bonsai with difficult trees...

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8 February 2023

Grafting

Between the buds

Using graft techniques to improve the quality of trees

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3 February 2023

Gallery

A Bonsai paradise

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

27 January 2023

Gallery

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 …

12 January 2023

Summer

Air and light

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

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15 December 2022

Workshop

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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17 November 2022

Technique

What happens inside?

Defoliation is applied to promote back budding on trident maples

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27 October 2022

Pots

Kid’s play or pot?

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

29 September 2022

Gallery

Italian beauties in Arco

Juniperus, Taxus, Acer,…

14 September 2022

Gallery

Dutch design

Picea, Forsythia, carpinus….

10 September 2022

Grafting

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 orange berries during the winter, a time lacking in colour. It is a very robust…...