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Post Categories: Bonsai Care / Development / Styling / Display / Excursions / Exhibits

Popular Topics: Black Pine / Decandling / Bonsai Development Series / Japan / Juniper / Trident Maple / Korean Hornbeam / Yaupon Holly / Repotting / Shohin / Pots / Pot Selection / Pests / Accents / Tools / Deadwood / Suiseki

Species: Black Pine / Japanese Maple / Trident Maple / Juniper / Sierra Juniper / Yaupon Holly / Corkbark Black Pine / Hinoki / White Pine / Western Juniper / Procumbens Juniper / Red Pine / Olive / Crabapple / Plum / Redwood / Cork Oak / Coast Live Oak / Korean Hornbeam / Ume / Chojubai / Cryptomeria / Satsuki Azalea / Stewartia

Techniques: Repotting / Wiring / Grafting / Decandling / Exposed Root / Air Layer / Seedling-Cutting / Watering / Fertilizing

Exhibits: Kokufu / Taikan-ten / Bay Area Satsuki Aikokai / Bay Island Bonsai / Redwood Empire Bonsai Society / Artisans Cup / U.S. National Bonsai Exhibition

  • Pot selection exercise – cork oak
  • Three repotting tips
  • Pruning and repotting coast live oak
  • February News and Updates
  • Highlights from the 2023 California Shohin Seminar exhibit
  • Shohin School Winter Seminar recap
  • Highlights from the 41st BABA Exhibition
  • Field-grown black pine progression – part 2
  • Field-grown black pine progression – part 1
  • Introducing Shohin School!
  • Small and medium displays at the Pacific Bonsai Expo
  • Conifers at the Pacific Bonsai Expo
  • Deciduous bonsai at the Pacific Bonsai Expo
  • Scoring broadleaf evergreen bonsai at the Expo
  • Pacific Bonsai Expo recap
  • Top 10 things to know about this weekend’s Pacific Bonsai Expo
  • Three more weeks until the Pacific Bonsai Expo!
  • Pacific Bonsai Expo updates
  • Planning a successful trip to the Pacific Bonsai Expo
  • Bonsai stand conventions
  • Pacific Bonsai Expo update
  • Kokufu scoring exercise results
  • Kokufu scoring exercise part 2: multi-point displays
  • Kokufu scoring exercise part 1: coniferous and deciduous bonsai
  • Bonsai soil Q & A
  • Creating redwood bonsai: step 2
  • Decandling and thinning a red pine forest
  • Suggestions for studying bonsai with exhibit books
  • Wrapping up decandling season
  • Bonsai Development Series #27: Focusing growth on the lowest primary branches
  • Pruning shohin olive
  • Summer pruning young deciduous trees
  • Decandling field-grown black pines
  • Bonsai Development Series #26: Focusing growth in a single sacrifice branch
  • Highlights from the Bay Area Satsuki Aikokai’s 25th annual show
  • Visit to Rakuyo, the bonsai garden of Andrew Robson
  • Highlights from the Bonsai Society of Portland’s Farm to Table seminar
  • Spring cutback on ume
  • Defoliating a Japanese maple
  • Creating redwood bonsai: step 1
  • Thinning a Japanese maple forest planting
  • Highlights from the ABAS’s 62nd annual exhibit
  • Gearing up for the Pacific Bonsai Expo
  • Pinching candles on small exposed root pines
  • Practice displays at Sei Boku Bonsai Kai
  • Wisteria in bloom and Spring Update
  • Coast Live Oak update – plus submission tips for the Pacific Bonsai Expo
  • Young pine work with John Eads
  • Mid-repotting report: Japanese red pine
  • How your club can support the Pacific Bonsai Expo
  • Four-year progression: making a shimpaku juniper from graft
  • Developing chojubai – tips from Left Coast Bonsai
  • Highlights from the 40th Anniversary BABA Exhibition
  • Conifers vs. deciduous bonsai: evaluating different species
  • Cutback and wiring a root over rock black pine
  • Coast redwood cutback and repotting
  • Judging categories at the Pacific Bonsai Expo
  • What to do when akadama is in short supply
  • How to determine the direction or flow of a bonsai
  • Fall cutback on Japanese plum
  • Selecting trees for exhibit one year out
  • Twelve month countdown to the Pacific Bonsai Expo
  • Wiring a Ponderosa pine
  • Fall cutback on a root over rock trident maple
  • Yamato Bonsai Kai’s 50th exhibition
  • New Guide – Troubleshooting yellow foliage on black pine
  • The bonsai pottery of Nao Tokutake
  • Short interviews at the 7th US National Bonsai Exhibition
  • U.S. National Bonsai Exhibition Critique
  • Selecting stands for a medium display
  • Redwood redesign: step 1
  • Pacific Bonsai Expo website launches
  • Tips for late summer
  • Developing a grafted juniper
  • Committing to an approach graft – separating the roots
  • Initial cutback on a coast live oak – and Tree Sale!
  • A visit to John Thompson’s garden
  • Searching for the front of a broom-style zelkova
  • Decandling season wrap-up
  • Rehabilitating a coast live oak – part 2
  • Refining a slender Korean hornbeam
  • Bonsai Development Series #25: Pruning exposed root pines
  • Decandling field-grown pines
  • Post-bloom care for satsuki azaleas
  • Spring cutback on stewartia
  • Spring cutback on ume
  • Thinning a European beech grove
  • Spring cutback on Korean hornbeam
  • Hard cutback on satsuki azaleas
  • Evaluating vigor of trident maples in spring
  • Removing large leaves on a red maple forest
  • Bonsai Development Series #24: Twisting young junipers
  • Bonsai Development Series #23: Wiring young juniper trunks
  • Developing branches on Chinese wisteria
  • Repotting a Sierra juniper with a compacted root ball
  • Update on the Pacific Bonsai Expo
  • Repotting nursery stock – sekka hinoki
  • What kind of soil should I use for my bonsai?
  • Aligning containers with development goals
  • Pot selection exercise – Japanese maple
  • Branch refinement – controlling vigor with decandling
  • Repotting a young exposed root pine
  • Repotting satsuki azalea
  • Repotting a Japanese maple forest planting
  • Repotting a neglected atlas cedar
  • How to host a virtual bonsai presentation
  • Fall cutback on Japanese maple
  • Three reasons to start growing red maples
  • Fall cutback on an informal upright hornbeam
  • Big branches and little branches on Chinese quince
  • Options for addressing dieback low on the trunk
  • Fall cutback and wiring on stewartia
  • Dwarf pussy willow bonsai
  • Juniper design Q&A – identifying next steps on a Sierra juniper
  • Sierra juniper – first steps
  • Review: Bonsai Heresy by Michael Hagedorn
  • A simple test to evaluate the integration of foliage and deadwood
  • Securing a tree without repotting
  • New guide: Winter care for bonsai
  • Bunjin black pines from seed
  • Fall flowers on satsuki azaleas
  • What to do if your trees think it’s spring
  • Timing for fall pruning when the weather is still warm
  • Advice wanted: how to overwinter bonsai in cold climates
  • Visiting ancient Sierra junipers
  • Rocky Mountain juniper – first wiring
  • Seasonal maintenance – removing flowers from dwarf flowering quince
  • Bonsai Development Series #22: cutback-decandling techniques for young pines
  • Cryptomeria – seven year update and first wiring
  • The right way and wrong way to make major cuts on young maples
  • Bonsai Development Series #21: The effect of removing a sacrifice branch
  • Just in time for fall – pumpkin galls
  • Wiring tip: how to prevent branches from splitting away from the trunk
  • Finding the right hormone levels for making seedling-cuttings
  • Insights from using a chemical injector to acidify the water for one year
  • Diagnosing spots and twig dieback on a Japanese plum
  • Cutback on a white chojubai quince
  • Summer repotting dwarf flowering quince
  • Refining Yaupon holly
  • Bonsai Development Series #20: avoiding problems during trunk development
  • When ignorance was bliss – and good for my bonsai too
  • Notes on Aleppo pine bonsai
  • Approaches to managing new shoots on pine bonsai
  • Which pine species can I decandle?
  • Spring tune-up on Japanese plum
  • Pruning a field-grown trident maple
  • Leaf pruning Chinese wisteria – follow-up
  • Decandling a mini-size black pine
  • Applying a moss top dressing to satsuki azalea bonsai
  • Watering deciduous bonsai – part 2
  • Watering deciduous bonsai – part 1
  • Watering conifers
  • Pruning and repotting an exposed root ficus
  • Decandling young bunjin pines
  • Decandling a shohin black pine
  • Slowing down sacrifice branches on black pine
  • Cutback and leaf pruning a dwarf wisteria
  • Leaf pruning Chinese wisteria
  • Starting the refinement process on a field-grown Japanese black pine
  • Exposed root black pine: seven-year progression
  • Cutback and decandling a field-grown black pine
  • Decandling a cascade black pine in two stages
  • Spring cutback on ume
  • Identifying the right time for spring cutback
  • Review: Kimura Masterclass from Bonsai Empire
  • Guest post: The story behind Michael Hagedorn’s Bonsai Heresy
  • A good reason to not skip annual maintenance on juniper bonsai
  • Spring cutback on Chinese quince
  • Kinsai satsuki azalea
  • Spring deciduous work: stewartia
  • Grafting follow-up – reducing the original foliage
  • Timing spring pruning on coast live oak
  • Developing branches on Chinese wisteria
  • Bare-rooting a trident maple
  • Wiring a large cork oak
  • Kokufu 101: shohin
  • Kokufu 101: conifers
  • Kokufu 101: deciduous bonsai
  • Kokufu 101: Japanese black pine
  • Displays at the 7th Japan Suiseki Exhibition
  • Highlights from the 7th Japan Suiseki Exhibition
  • Studying trees at the Koishikawa Botanical Garden
  • Highlights from the Omiya Bonsai Museum’s garden
  • “Bonsai: Quest for Beauty” at the Omiya Bonsai Museum
  • A visit to Fuyo-en, the garden of Hiroshi Takeyama
  • A visit to Kimura’s bonsai garden
  • Massive field-grown satsuki azaleas
  • Field-growing satsuki azaleas at Takahashi Engei
  • Onuma’s mini-bonsai growing techniques
  • Onuma’s mini-sized bonsai
  • Accents displayed at the 94th Kokufu-ten
  • Prize-winning trees from the 94th Kokufu Bonsai Exhibition
  • A historic spruce at the 94th Kokufu exhibition
  • Evergreen highlights and displays from the 17th Shohin Seminar
  • Deciduous highlights at the 2020 California Shohin Seminar
  • Defining the branch structure on a Korean hornbeam
  • Black pine – work in progress
  • Bay Area Bonsai Associates’ 39th annual exhibit
  • The Little Book of Bonsai – a look at what’s inside
  • Pruning to support development goals on crabapple pre-bonsai
  • Refining a field-grown black pine
  • Pot selection exercise – dwarf wisteria
  • Thinning a mature satsuki azalea
  • The story behind The Little Book of Bonsai
  • Developing grafted cork-bark pines
  • Refining a young root over rock black pine
  • Cutting back and wiring a young cascade pine
  • Setting design goals for refining mature bonsai
  • Cutback on an old cork-bark black pine
  • Ume observations and cutback
  • Refining cork oak – initial styling
  • Thinning shohin Japanese maple
  • Pot selection exercise – contorted quince
  • New book – The Little Book of Bonsai
  • Five patterns for pulling needles on black pine
  • An idea for a bonsai show
  • The benefits of thinning satsuki azaleas in fall
  • Review of Bonsai Empire’s Advanced Bonsai Courses
  • Refining a 15 year-old black pine
  • Fall cutback on stewartia
  • Tracking down banding symptoms in black pine
  • BDS #19: Encouraging interior buds on young red pines
  • Fall clean-up on shohin satsuki azalea
  • Bonsai Development Series #18: Timing cutback to support development goals
  • Highlights from Yamato Bonsai Kai’s 48th annual exhibition
  • Displays at East Bay Bonsai Society’s 58th Annual Show
  • Timing for fall pruning
  • Fall pruning on Japanese plum
  • Branch development on Coast Live Oak – results after 8 months
  • Diagnosing root rot in black and red pine bonsai
  • Cutback on winter jasmine
  • Bonsai Development Series #17: Thin foliage to preserve interior shoots
  • New book showcases bonsai and penjing at the Montréal Botanical Garden
  • Homing in on the ideal environment for satsuki azaleas
  • Tips for applying liquid fertilizer
  • Summer watering tip
  • Cutback and wiring a Green Island ficus
  • Initial styling on a Ponderosa pine
  • Restoring health to an old Jeffrey pine – update and fall work
  • Initial styling on a Rocky Mountain juniper
  • Redwood Empire Bonsai Society’s 36th annual show
  • Cutback and leaf pruning on Chinese Wisteria
  • Top 5 tips for keeping azalea bonsai healthy
  • How to lower the pH of your water to keep bonsai healthy
  • The effect of fertilizer on water pH
  • Why are my pines yellow?
  • Bonsai Development Series #16: Developing the trunk with multiple sacrifice branches
  • The benefits of reducing sacrifice branches incrementally
  • Sometimes you only decandle the sacrifice branch
  • Another look at balancing vigor on a black pine with a sacrifice branch
  • Balancing vigor on pines with sacrifice branches
  • Developing field-grown trident maple – taking the next step
  • Directional pruning – a tip from Andrew Robson
  • Coast live oak – initial styling
  • Bonsai displays at the Bay Area Suiseki and Shohin Show
  • Highlights from the Bay Area Suiseki and Shohin Show
  • Viewing stones at the Bay Area Suiseki and Shohin Show
  • Early branch work on large cork oak bonsai
  • Sierra wildflowers – nature’s accent plants
  • A natural semi-cascade juniper
  • Appreciating a massive, and ancient, Sierra juniper
  • A very twisty Sierra juniper
  • Spring maintenance on black pine – pulling needles and decandling
  • Spring maintenance for a refined Korean hornbeam
  • Bonsai on display at Sei Boku Bonsai Kai’s 36th annual exhibit
  • Initial branch refinement on Japanese black pine
  • Transitioning from trunk development to branch refinement – Japanese black pine
  • Leaf pruning vs. partial defoliation
  • Report from the Bay Area Satsuki Aikokai’s 2019 Exhibit
  • Partial defoliation on shohin Japanese maple
  • Leaf pruning dwarf wisteria
  • Coast redwood – repotting follow-up
  • Teach Yourself Bonsai #2: How to create a bonsai calendar – Japanese black pine
  • Bonsai Development Series #15b: removing unnecessary growth, part 2
  • Bonsai Development Series #15: removing unnecessary growth
  • Learning about accent plants at Bonsai on the Bayou
  • A thousand posts and counting – ten years of Bonsai Tonight
  • A closer look at the Bonsai on the Bayou exhibition
  • Prize-winning Bonsai at Bonsai on the Bayou: An American Bonsai Summit
  • New pot for an exposed root black pine
  • Refining the roots on an exposed root pine
  • Watch out for wilting candles on young pines
  • Accent plants: Pyrrosia ferns
  • Crabapple update – focus on developing the trunk
  • Western juniper on a rock
  • Rehabilitating a Coast live oak
  • Reducing branches on coast live oak – follow-up
  • Bonsai Development Series #14: Sacrifice branches – the last mile
  • Reopening an old wound to promote callus formation
  • Bonsai Development Series #13: Balancing vigor
  • Determining flower color by looking at the foliage – satsuki azalea
  • Repotting exposed root satsuki azalea bonsai
  • Working soil into the roots below the trunk – repotting field-grown satsuki
  • Reducing primary branches on coast live oak
  • Refining cork oak – step two
  • Coast redwood – initial repot
  • Bonsai from the Gafu-ten sales area
  • Beautiful shohin at the 2019 Gafu-ten exhibit
  • Combining elements to balance shohin displays 
  • Alternatives to shohin box displays
  • Shohin judging categories at Gafu-ten
  • Anatomy of a shohin display
  • Roy Minarai pots at the Gafu-ten pottery competition
  • Repotting a collected Sierra juniper
  • Developing cascade black pine
  • Cutback on young quince
  • Reducing internodes on Japanese maple
  • Pot selection exercise – semi-cascade ume
  • Teach Yourself Bonsai #1: When do I repot my bonsai?
  • More Millettia bonsai
  • A dwarf wisteria bonsai
  • Cutback on Chinese quince
  • Fall vacation edition – photos from Taikan-ten
  • Fall color on satsuki azaleas
  • A small step: removing supports on a collected Sierra juniper
  • Bonsai Development Series #12: Avoid growing trunks with straight sections
  • Lessons from a visit to a bonsai garden
  • How not to propagate princess persimmon
  • Bonsai Development Series #11: Culling trees with poor characteristics
  • GSBF convention exhibit highlights
  • Illuminated bonsai at the Oakland Autumn Lights Festival
  • Photographing bonsai – getting the level right
  • What to look for at fall bonsai exhibits
  • Bonsai Development Series #10: transitioning to a new sacrifice branch
  • Two year progression on a cascade black pine
  • When to keep old needles on weak branches
  • Rehabilitating a black pine – removing old needles
  • Accent plants on display at the 6th U.S. National Bonsai Exhibition
  • Highlights from the 6th U.S. National Bonsai Exhibition
  • Highlights from the Northwest Bonsai Rendezvous exhibit
  • Redwood Empire Bonsai Society’s 35th annual show
  • The Suiseki Art of Mas Nakajima
  • Bonsai Tonight – summer vacation edition
  • Stimulating back buds on Japanese black pine
  • Bud types on pine bonsai
  • Summer fertilizing
  • Carving tips for beginners
  • Signs of overwatering black pine bonsai
  • When to graft and when to bend: evaluating branch structure
  • Defoliation follow-up: refining a Korean hornbeam
  • Bonsai Development Series #9: Evaluating sacrifice branches mid-season
  • Can you see the signs? Identifying weak roots by checking the foliage
  • Removing wire from an old grafted Shimpaku
  • Bringing new trees into the garden: coast redwood
  • Summer show prep: repotting black pine in July
  • Enjoying potentilla in bloom
  • Side-veneer graft aftercare – bag technique
  • Repotting young chojubai in summer
  • Before and after – cutback and decandling exposed root black pines in development
  • Bare-root azalea follow-up
  • Bonsai Development Series #8: Removing unnecessary branches
  • Increasing density on a cork-bark black pine
  • Follow-up – defoliating a shohin Japanese maple
  • Early appearance of summer buds and a decandling tip
  • An unprompted second flush of growth on black pine
  • Early stage development on field-grown black pines
  • Bonsai Development Series #7: Preparing the next sacrifice branch
  • An early start to the decandling season
  • Caring for recently dug pines
  • Spring maintenance for junipers – removing the berries
  • Focus on defoliation – determining how many leaves to remove
  • Cutback and wiring on a semi-cascade ume
  • Removing flowers on satsuki azaleas
  • Repotting out of season – bringing new trees into the garden
  • Defoliating a shohin Japanese maple
  • An alternative approach to repotting trees in development
  • 2018 Gateway to Bonsai – exhibit highlights
  • Thinning a red pine forest
  • Protecting bonsai from hail damage
  • Spring growth on Japanese beech – understanding when to pinch
  • Catching up on black pine work in spring
  • Novel displays at Bonsai Society of San Francisco’s annual exhibit
  • Spring watering tips
  • Bonsai Development Series #6: Sacrifice branch basics
  • Alternative approach to creating shohin pine bonsai
  • Repotting a Jeffrey Pine
  • Bonsai Development Series #5: Selecting a new trunk line
  • Bonsai Development Series #4: Removing the sacrifice branch
  • Where do roots like to grow? A look inside the pot
  • A quick tip for maintaining Korean hornbeam bonsai
  • Removing flower buds from satsuki azaleas
  • Preventing air pockets under the trunk – repotting satsuki azalea
  • Repotting bare-root satsuki azaleas
  • Checking the roots on a large cork oak
  • Signs that it’s time to repot
  • Restoring an old cork oak bonsai
  • Repotting a collected Sierra juniper
  • Bonsai displays at the 16th biennial Shohin Seminar
  • 2018 California Shohin Seminar – selections from the exhibit
  • Bonsai on display at BIB’s 19th annual exhibit
  • Fantastic Sierra juniper at Bay Island Bonsai’s 19th annual exhibit
  • Setting a display with a Western juniper and Japanese maple
  • How to use a bonsai jack
  • Reducing the trunk to improve a cork oak bonsai
  • Initial work on a cork oak bonsai
  • Bonsai Development Series #3: Evaluating field grown material
  • Double decker air layer on cryptomeria
  • Redirecting growth on an 8 year-old black pine
  • Refining Korean hornbeam follow-up – thinning branches
  • What next? Refining a Korean hornbeam
  • An approach to organizing a bonsai garden
  • From landscape tree to bonsai part 5
  • Wiring and repotting crabapple seedlings
  • Refining a young exposed root black pine
  • Cutback on root over rock trident maple
  • Showing accent plants at their best – wood slabs by Austin Heitzman
  • Exposing the roots on a young black pine
  • Creating exposed root pines – follow-up techniques
  • How to create exposed root pine bonsai
  • Cleaning up a Japanese beech forest
  • Repotting an old San Jose juniper
  • Cutback on field grown trident maple
  • Fall cutback on young Chinese quince
  • Refining a large cork oak
  • Bonsai Development Series #2: maintaining low branches on young pines
  • Removing air-layers from an old juniper
  • Fall cutback on ume bonsai
  • Repotting chojubai in fall
  • Sierra junipers in the snow
  • Fall cutback on young Japanese plum bonsai
  • Fall maintenance tasks – removing old leaves
  • Summer break edition – some favorite trees at the World Bonsai Convention
  • Finding the center – moving a Western juniper to the middle of the pot
  • How to measure bonsai wire
  • Bonsai Development Series #1: How to treat wire scars mid-way along the trunk
  • Starting crabapple for bonsai
  • How to care for bonsai during heat waves
  • Evaluating summer growth – how much is enough?
  • Redwood Empire Bonsai Society’s 34th annual show
  • Rapid recovery – developing a cork oak bonsai
  • Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest
  • Natural deadwood
  • Where lava rock comes from
  • Repotting an olive bonsai
  • Cutback and partial defoliation on trident maple
  • When not to use colanders for developing young bonsai
  • Larger pots make a big difference for young pines
  • Repotting a field grown trident maple
  • Developing a trident maple – before and after
  • Selecting branches to decandle
  • Decandling pines in development
  • Developing a young cork oak bonsai
  • Thinning young cork bark pine bonsai
  • Be patient with pines in summer
  • New bonsai display at the Portland Japanese Garden
  • Be gentle with pines
  • Planting medium for shimpaku cuttings
  • Small trees at their best – shohin bonsai on display at the 2017 WBC
  • Historic bonsai on display at the 2017 WBC
  • Selections from Japan’s top 100 suiseki at the World Bonsai Convention
  • Satsuki azalea bonsai at the World Bonsai Convention
  • Bonsai from the Keiunan Collection at the World Bonsai Convention
  • Bonsai from the Funayama Collection at the World Bonsai Convention
  • Masaru Hazaka Collection at World Bonsai Convention
  • Satsuki bonsai at Kobayashi Sangyou
  • Azaleas in development at Kobayashi Sangyou satsuki bonsai garden
  • Rakujyuen satsuki bonsai garden
  • Some notes on shopping for azalea bonsai
  • Visiting Tokoname
  • A visit to the Gyouzan kiln – the creative containers of Yukizyou Nakano
  • A visit to the Koyo kiln
  • Koju-en shohin bonsai nursery
  • Identifying suitable material for bonsai – part 5 of 5
  • Identifying suitable material for bonsai – part 4 of 5
  • Identifying suitable material for bonsai – part 3 of 5
  • Identifying suitable material for bonsai – part 2 of 5
  • Identifying suitable material for bonsai – part 1 of 5
  • Effect of soil mix on bulb production for Habaneria radiata
  • Reducing branch vigor on black pine bonsai
  • Thinning a cork bark black pine
  • An extra long dormancy for a Korean hornbeam
  • Improving drainage in a compacted rootball
  • Pot selection exercise – pros and cons of options for a procumbens juniper
  • Pot selection exercise – procumbens juniper
  • How to fertilize black pine bonsai
  • A list of Kokufu Prize winning bonsai
  • Review of Bonsai Fundamentals Course by Michael Hagedorn and Bonsai Empire
  • Making a big cut on an ume bonsai
  • Pinching spring buds on Japanese maple
  • Removing the last sacrifice branch
  • Replacing a sacrifice branch
  • Creating cascade Japanese black pine
  • Award-winning bonsai at the 18th Noelanders Trophy
  • The trees of Bonsai Shohin Japan
  • Traders at the 18th Noelanders Trophy
  • Demonstrations at the 18th Noelanders Trophy
  • Shohin displays at BIB’s 18th annual exhibit
  • Large and medium-sized bonsai at Bay Island Bonsai’s 18th exhibit
  • Prize-winning trees at Bay Island Bonsai’s 18th annual exhibit
  • Different approaches to exposed root pine bonsai
  • Improving exposed root pine bonsai with a single bend
  • Developing a new leader on exposed root pines
  • Exposed root black pine – the first wire
  • Pot selection exercise – Yaupon holly
  • Correcting faulty roots on young hawthorn bonsai
  • Finding a go-to resource when you need to learn more
  • Tips for anchoring bonsai wire
  • How to wire a Y branch intersection
  • How to secure bonsai in the pot
  • Tips for using basic bonsai tools
  • Distinguishing vigorous growth from healthy growth in bonsai
  • How to tell when something is wrong with your bonsai
  • How to fertilize bonsai
  • How to evaluate bonsai water needs
  • How to identify an appropriate environment for your bonsai
  • Bonsai club programs: what works in your club?
  • How did you learn bonsai?
  • Roundup of American bonsai potters
  • Crataegus bonsai containers by Michael Hagedorn
  • Stoneware bonsai containers by Sara Rayner
  • Earthwares – the bonsai pots of Vicki Chamberlain
  • Kawauso Pottery – the bonsai pots of Roy Minarai
  • Identifying slipcast bonsai pots
  • General exhibit at GSBF’s 39th convention
  • Judged Bonsai Show at GSBF Convention 39
  • Exhibit displays at the 2016 PNBCA Convention
  • Highlights from the 2016 PNBCA Convention
  • Ume at Kokufu 90
  • White pine at Kokufu 90
  • Curvy Shimpaku at Kokufu 90
  • East Bay Bonsai Society 55th annual show
  • Midori Bonsai Club’s 55th annual show
  • Early fall at the Pacific Bonsai Museum
  • Decked-Out bonsai exhibit at the Pacific Bonsai Museum
  • Shohin bonsai displays at 5th US National Exhibition
  • Deciduous bonsai and creative displays at the 5th National Bonsai Exhibition
  • Highlights from the 5th US National Bonsai Exhibition
  • Bonsai on display at Kunio Kobayashi’s
  • Yew and deciduous bonsai in Kimura’s garden
  • Kimura’s pines
  • Kimura’s shimpaku bonsai
  • Growing medium for terrestrial orchids
  • Exposed root black pines at the Green Club
  • Refining a black pine
  • Redwood Empire 33rd Annual Exhibit
  • Preparing a juniper for exhibit
  • How to grow Japanese black pine from seed
  • Korean Hornbeam – 10 year progression
  • What to look for in surface roots
  • Bonsai buying guide: check the surface roots
  • Repotting a trident maple bonsai
  • Options for applying bonsai fertilizer
  • Developing Yaupon holly bonsai – a tale of when not to cut
  • Decandling black pine bonsai – an in-depth guide
  • What kind of bonsai fertilizer do you use?
  • All about akadama
  • Watching bonsai become bonsai
  • Summer work on black pine
  • Cutback on Korean hornbeam
  • Decandling a red pine forest bonsai
  • Pulling needles on black pine
  • Balancing vigor on black pine
  • Stimulating new buds on cork oak
  • Great bonsai at Mirai
  • Review: Bonsai Intermediate Course
  • Sei Boku Bonsai Kai’s 33rd annual exhibit
  • How vigorous are your pines?
  • Highlights from Michael Hagedorn’s garden
  • Unbridled Art
  • Broom-style zelkova
  • White pine on a slab
  • Slant-style chojubai
  • Shimpaku at Kokufu 90
  • Things seen at a Bay Island Bonsai workshop
  • Napa Valley Bonsai Club 2016 Exhibit
  • Partially defoliating a Korean hornbeam
  • Field grown cork oak update
  • Growing terrestrial orchids
  • It’s time to feed pines
  • Japanese maple bonsai – working from a sub-optimal starting point
  • Cork bark black pine from graft – removing the original foliage
  • Black pine from landscape material – follow-up
  • Cork oak
  • Omiya Bonsai Museum
  • Displaying a Japanese maple
  • Post 701 – Kimura’s creations
  • Pollen cones on young red pines
  • Cutting back a Japanese maple
  • Bonsai Society of San Francisco 2016 exhibit
  • BABA’s 35th Annual Exhibit
  • Pot selection for a dwarf wisteria
  • Getting the balance right – a follow-up
  • Online Store now open
  • Needle juniper foliage
  • Twists and movement
  • An old pot
  • Highlights from Shinji Suzuki’s garden
  • A beautiful garden in winter
  • Living the bonsai life
  • Medium is the new large
  • Not too big, not too small – Kifu bonsai at BIB exhibit
  • Shohin bonsai at BIB’s 17th annual exhibit
  • The Artisans Cup Retrospective
  • Show trees and accents
  • Pot selection follow-up
  • Pot selection – exposed root black pine
  • Dropping in on a Bonsai Intensive
  • Final stroll through the Taikan-ten sales area
  • Shimpaku at the Taikan-ten sales area
  • Shohin black pine extravaganza
  • Suiseki at Genko Kai exhibit
  • Bonsai displays at Hoshun-in
  • Genko Kai exhibit at Hoshun-in
  • A juniper with character
  • A curious display
  • More shitakusa from Taikan-ten
  • More than an accent
  • The heart of Japan – Keiji Tanaka display at 35th Taikan-ten
  • Korean hornbeam display
  • Prize-winning black pine at 35th Taikan-ten
  • Needle juniper at 35th Taikan-ten
  • New growth on redwood bonsai
  • Coast redwood branch refinement
  • Shohin bonsai from Gordon Deeg
  • A visit to Gordon Deeg’s garden
  • Large trees from the Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt
  • East Bay Bonsai Society’s 54th Bonsai Show
  • Lights, camera – bonsai!
  • Judging the Artisans Cup by categories
  • Analysis of Results from the 2015 Artisans Cup
  • Artisans Cup judging rubric
  • Refining a Sierra juniper
  • Highlights from the Green Club – shimpaku
  • Highlights from the Green Club – shohin black pine
  • Highlights from the Green Club – Japanese maple
  • Highlights from the Green Club – black pine
  • Highlights from the Green Club – Japanese beech
  • Highlights from the Green Club – white pine
  • Developing formal upright cryptomeria
  • Cryptomeria foliage
  • Summer growth on black pine
  • Good buds, bad buds
  • Drench for root aphids follow-up 1
  • Conifers at REBS 32nd annual show
  • Trident maples at REBS 32nd annual show
  • Thoughts on shopping for bonsai
  • Yaupon holly cutback
  • Portland Japanese Garden
  • The study of bonsai design
  • A novel way to find the lifeline
  • Why are my trees yellow?
  • Redirecting growth on pines
  • Summer clean-up on a Western juniper
  • Distinguishing old growth from new growth on junipers
  • Decandling shohin black pine
  • Effect of hormone treatments on P. thunbergii cuttings for the production of surface roots on trees cultivated for bonsai
  • Basic refinement on olive bonsai
  • Cutback on coast redwood
  • Getting the balance right
  • Cut it here – my start in bonsai
  • How to fill a tea bag with fertilizer
  • Matt Reel workshop
  • Finding meaningful forms
  • Different styles at ABFF
  • 5th Asia-Pacific Bonsai Friendship Federation Convention & Exhibition
  • Caterpillar camouflage
  • Experiments with fertilizer
  • Review: The Bonsai Beginner’s Course
  • Looking out for swelling on recently wired branches
  • Displaying a Korean hornbeam
  • Visit to Telperion Farms
  • Junipers of Bonsai Mirai
  • Amazing pines at Bonsai Mirai
  • The Portland bonsai tour continues
  • Judging bonsai at Bay Island Bonsai meeting
  • A visit to brendenstudio
  • A visit to Michael Hagedorn’s garden
  • Michael Hagedorn AMA
  • How to improve ramification by reducing large branches
  • Napa Valley Bonsai Club 2015 Exhibit
  • Spring watering for recently repotted trees
  • Juan Andrade AMA
  • Repotting black pine in nursery soil
  • Cleaning up a black pine
  • Stratifying pine seeds
  • Artisans Cup – submissions now open
  • Pinching spring candles on black pine
  • Mame bonsai at BSSF’s 55th annual exhibit
  • Bonsai Society of San Francisco’s 55th annual exhibit
  • Evaluating bonsai at BABA’s 34th annual exhibit
  • Bay Area Bonsai Associates 34th Annual Exhibit
  • Feed me!
  • Time for a smaller pot
  • Too much of a good thing
  • Repotting young cork bark black pines
  • Cork bark black pine from graft – follow up
  • Yaupon holly – before and after
  • Fall work at Shinpukuji Bonsai Museum
  • Shinpukuji Temple Bonsai Museum
  • A visit to Daiju-en bonsai garden
  • A bonsai garden in the rain
  • Bountiful Bonsai
  • More highlights from BIB’s 16th annual exhibit
  • Nomoto critique at BIB’s 16th annual exhibit
  • Members’ Choice Awards – BIB’s 16th Annual Exhibit
  • Bay Island Bonsai Exhibit this weekend
  • Daisaku Nomoto AMA
  • Ask Daisaku Nomoto anything
  • Hinoki forests and more at the 34th Taikan-ten
  • Follow the line of the trunk
  • More outstanding bonsai from the 2014 Taikan-ten
  • Beautiful bonsai from the 34th Taikan-ten exhibition
  • Stealthy pests – root aphid and adelgid
  • Repotting red pine seedlings
  • For those of you who haven’t done so yet
  • Spider mites aren’t insects
  • Caterpillars
  • White spots on Western juniper
  • Adelgids
  • Thrips and bonsai
  • Powdery mildew
  • Sooty mold
  • Pest of the week – aphid
  • Pine needle scale
  • Pest of the week – scale
  • 2014 Joshua Roth New Talent Bonsai Competition
  • Judged entries at GSBF Convention 37
  • GSBF 37th Convention – conifers
  • GSBF 37th Convention – Deciduous trees on exhibit
  • Decandling – how late is too late?
  • More from the International Bonsai Arboretum
  • The International Bonsai Arboretum
  • Suiseki at the 4th US National Bonsai Exhibition
  • Yusen display at the US National Bonsai Exhibition
  • Shohin bonsai at the 4th US National Bonsai Exhibition
  • The people you meet at the US National Bonsai Exhibition
  • Highlights from the 4th US National Bonsai Exhibition
  • Some wonderful trees
  • White pine clean-up
  • Dwarf Sawara cypress cutback
  • Fall is for fertilizer
  • Yaupon holly refinement
  • Developing bonsai at Deer Meadow
  • A visit to Deer Meadow Bonsai
  • Looking inside
  • Small bonsai and accents
  • More highlights from REBS’ 31st annual show
  • Displays at REBS’ 31st annual show
  • Redwood Empire 31st Annual Show
  • Name this accent
  • Japanese flowering quince – chojubai
  • New varieties in the garden
  • Exposed root pines in progress
  • Wiring an olive
  • Grafting Utah juniper – removing the original foliage
  • Boon’s garden
  • Planning a bonsai exhibit
  • Summer buds
  • Of red pines and black pines
  • Developing black pine – setting the first curves
  • How to not make seedling-cuttings
  • Developing young pine bonsai
  • Decandling a shohin black pine
  • Decandling a red pine forest
  • Decandling pines in early stages of development
  • Decandling pines in development
  • Decandling established black pines
  • Spring cutback
  • Matt Reel bonsai program at Bay Island Bonsai
  • The twistiest of junipers
  • Spectacular Sierra junipers
  • Junipers on the edge
  • Deadwood and movement
  • A final walk through Imai’s garden
  • Pines in Imai’s garden
  • Where good bonsai come from
  • More conifers and deciduous trees in Shiino’s garden
  • Kentaro Shiino’s pines
  • International contributions to the Japan Suiseki Exhibition
  • Japan Suiseki Exhibition
  • Tête-à-tête
  • More from Miyazaki
  • Adachi’s little trees
  • A final pass through Kokufu 88
  • Shohin bonsai at Kokufu 88
  • The Kokufu-ten tour continues
  • Post #500 – Kokufu-ten
  • Junipers and maples at Nomoto Chinshou-en
  • Chojubai and white pine from Nomoto Chinshou-en
  • Nomoto Chinshou-en
  • Chojubai
  • White pines from Iwakiri’s garden
  • In praise of colanders
  • Creating the trunk – charting future growth
  • A seedling-cutting with too many roots
  • Large-sized bonsai from BABA’s 32nd annual exhibit
  • BABA 32nd Annual Exhibit
  • Shohin pines at Gashou-en
  • Gashou-en
  • A visit to Mr. Honda’s garden
  • Mr. Fukunaga’s maples
  • A visit to Miyakonojou
  • Registration open for International Bonsai & Culture Biennale 2014
  • A Japanese maple grove
  • 20 year-old black pines – before and after
  • Daisaku Nomoto workshop
  • Cleaning up deadwood on a procumbens juniper
  • A final stroll through BIB’s 15th annual exhibit
  • More from BIB’s 15th annual exhibit
  • Bay Island Bonsai’s 15th annual exhibit
  • A bonsai show comes together
  • Bonsai auction tomorrow at BIB’s 15th annual exhibit
  • Yaupon holly
  • Preparing a small pine for exhibit
  • A pot for a dwarf wisteria
  • Repotting a shore pine
  • A pot for an elm
  • Pot selection
  • Making a big cut
  • Refining a black pine
  • Removing an air layer
  • Keeping a root in place
  • Signs of health
  • Winter watering
  • Refining a 10 year-old pine
  • Selected highlights from the 2011 Taikan ten
  • Refining young pines
  • How to remove leaves from deciduous bonsai
  • Removing leaves from deciduous bonsai
  • Seeking style guidance for an old procumbens juniper
  • Encouraging grafted foliage
  • An old procumbens juniper
  • Johnny’s juniper
  • More from Yamato Bonsai Kai 42nd Annual Exhibit
  • Yamato Bonsai Kai 42nd Annual Exhibit
  • Tamping the soil into place
  • Wiring a tree into the pot
  • Setting the tree
  • Partially bare-rooting sawara cypress
  • Reducing the rootball
  • Initial repotting
  • More from Midori’s 52nd annual show
  • Midori Bonsai Club’s 52 annual show
  • Creating cork bark black pine – follow-up
  • Accent plant clean-up
  • Graft after-care
  • And if I don’t make a square cut?
  • Hinoki air-layer follow-up 1
  • Wiring a procumbens juniper
  • Deciduous and broadleaf bonsai at REBS’ 30th annual show
  • Conifers at REBS 30th annual show
  • Redwood Empire Bonsai Society’s 30th annual show
  • New bonsai pot – Keizan
  • Refining a procumbens juniper
  • Thinning procumbens juniper
  • Yaupon holly cutback
  • Kondo critique at BIB meeting
  • One-and-a-half-year-old pine seedlings
  • Watching trees grow
  • Flowering quince – summer work
  • Let summer buds grow
  • Decandling follow-up
  • Vigorous summer shoots
  • Decandling and then some
  • Trees that lean
  • Korean hornbeam – summer cutback and leaf pruning
  • Decandling a shohin black pine
  • Decandling aftercare
  • Decandling – where to begin?
  • Putting it all together – approaches to decandling
  • Pulling pine needles
  • Making the cut – redux
  • Techniques for controlling vigor
  • Decandling black pine – making the cut
  • When to decandle
  • Preparing trees for decandling
  • Selecting trees for decandling
  • Why we decandle pine bonsai
  • What is decandling?
  • Ficus bonsai – more cutback
  • Yaupon holly – before and after
  • Large cryptomeria air layer – part 2
  • Large cryptomeria air layer – part 1
  • Japanese maple air layer – a check up
  • Hinoki air layer
  • Artisans Cup postponed until September 2015-
  • Hinoki air layer – preparation
  • Grafting Utah juniper – a post without words
  • New bonsai fertilizer
  • The easiest pine maintenance of the year
  • A Large Korean Hornbeam at the ABAS Annual Show
  • American Bonsai Association, Sacramento, 54th Annual Spring Show
  • Ikenobo, Ohara, Wafu and other ikebana on display
  • Ikebana International – San Francisco Exhibition 2013
  • Developing young pines
  • Pine cutback basics
  • Wiring 3 year-old black pines
  • Repotting 1 year-old black pine seedlings
  • Repotting a shohin azalea
  • Repotting a red pine forest
  • Bonsai displays from BABA’s 32nd Annual Exhibit
  • Shohin displays at BABA’s 32nd Annual Exhibit
  • The colors of orchids
  • 2013 Pacific Orchid Exposition
  • Repotting a Western juniper
  • GSBF Mammoth Fundraiser 2013
  • Japanese plum before and after
  • A project pine
  • From landscape tree to bonsai – part 3
  • Preparing a black pine for exhibit
  • Air layering shishigashira at BIB meeting
  • Shopping for bonsai
  • Companion plants
  • More from BIB’s 14th annual exhibit
  • Small and medium displays at BIB’s 14th annual exhibit
  • Junipers at Bay Island Bonsai’s 14th annual exhibit
  • Wisterias like water
  • Creating cork bark black pine
  • Shree Bonsai
  • Bonsai from Takasago-an
  • Takasago-an
  • A special bonsai garden
  • Kokubunji Bonsai Center
  • Kinashi Bonsai District
  • Nakanishi Chinshoen
  • Bonsai from Takasago-An at Ritsurin Garden
  • Pines from Ritsurin Garden
  • Ritsurin Garden
  • Chrysanthemums on display
  • Tamamo Park
  • Oomurasan’s garden
  • Highlights from Shinpukuji Bonsai Museum
  • Terrific Tosho
  • Shinpukuji Bonsai Museum
  • Shinpukuji Temple Complex
  • Moriyama’s bonsai garden
  • Highlights from Moriyama’s bonsai collection
  • Mr. Kita’s bonsai
  • Mr. Kita’s junipers
  • Beech – on top of the mountain
  • Fall Color in Central Japan
  • Bonsai nursery and environs
  • Ebihara’s maples
  • Ishii
  • Artisans Cup of Portland Bonsai Exhibit
  • New American Masters – Ryan Neil
  • New American Masters – Michael Hagedorn
  • More from the Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection
  • Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection
  • Developing olive bonsai from scratch
  • Wiring a Western juniper
  • Summer watering
  • Accent plants
  • Impressive broadleaf bonsai at REBS 29th annual show
  • Questions about conifers at REBS 29th annual show
  • Trees with more than one trunk
  • Junipers from the Redwood Empire
  • Finding the right soil mix
  • Drying bonsai soil
  • Refining a Western juniper
  • Where should the apex go?
  • Akio Kondo bonsai critique
  • Japanese maple project
  • Juniper deadwood at Elandan Gardens
  • Stroll through Elandan Gardens
  • Ponderosa pines at Elandan Gardens
  • Ponderosa pine deadwood
  • Defoliating a Korean hornbeam – part 2
  • Defoliating a Korean hornbeam
  • Decandling projects
  • Decandling a shohin black pine
  • Treating a successful approach graft on black pine
  • Refining a yaupon holly
  • Young summer buds on black and red pine bonsai
  • Decandling season isn’t just for decandling
  • A cutback-decandling technique
  • Making a large cut on a ficus bonsai
  • Basic bonsai tool care
  • Basic Bonsai Tools
  • New bonsai tools from Japan
  • Decandling season arrives
  • Keeping bonsai from drying out in summer
  • Starting an olive bonsai from scratch
  • How to pot pine seedling-cuttings
  • Japanese plum cutback
  • Removing flower buds from azalea
  • Air layering a Japanese maple
  • Pine seedlings
  • Shimpaku cuttings
  • Bonsai pests!
  • Bonsai fertilizer – follow-up
  • New hinoki bonsai
  • Omoshiroi red pine forest
  • From landscape tree to bonsai – part 2
  • From landscape tree to bonsai
  • Developing young pine bonsai
  • Refining trident maple
  • New ficus bonsai
  • Mountain Hemlock
  • A root over rock maple is born
  • Fertilizer technique
  • Preparing a young black pine for show
  • Selecting a pot for a small trident maple bonsai
  • Shopping at the Asia-Pacific Bonsai and Suiseki Convention
  • Bonsai demonstrations at the 11th ASPAC
  • High tech bonsai auction
  • The bonsai of Aichi-en
  • Apprentice life
  • Styling a white pine
  • How to wire a bonsai pot
  • Bonsai stamps
  • Pines and junipers at Meifu-ten
  • Meifu-ten – Nagoya’s bonsai exhibit
  • The 2011 Sakufu-ten
  • Sakufu-ten – the bonsai professional’s exhibit
  • Bay Area Bonsai Associates 30th Anniversary Exhibit
  • Bay Island Bonsai’s 13th annual exhibit
  • Looking for directions
  • Daisaku Nomoto Bonsai Award
  • Rocky Mountain Juniper bonsai
  • Displaying a shimpaku juniper
  • A really full black pine
  • Unconventional branches
  • Jojakko-ji and Tenryu-ji
  • Arashiyama
  • Kiyomizu-dera
  • Daitoku-ji
  • Kinkaku – the Golden Pavilion
  • Ryoan-ji gardens
  • Ninna-ji Temple
  • Taikan-ten – awesome bonsai
  • Enjoying a bonsai show
  • Taikan-ten – all the little things
  • Taikan-ten setup and judging
  • Omiya Bonsai Art Museum and environs
  • Styling a Japanese white pine
  • Night auction
  • Black pine bonsai on display at Gomangoku
  • Gomangoku – the Daiju-en family bonsai exhibit
  • Preparing trees for show
  • Million dollar bonsai
  • A twisting black pine
  • Youkakai – 8 Auction
  • Wiring a large Japanese black pine
  • New bonsai tool – dish soap
  • GSBF Bonsai Garden at Lake Merritt
  • When not to work on a white pine
  • Bonsai top dressing
  • East Bay Bonsai Society’s 50th Anniversary Bonsai Show
  • Sequoia deadwood
  • Giant redwood – Sequoiadendron giganteum
  • The largest trees on earth
  • Shopping for bonsai at Green Club
  • Shimpaku bonsai on sale at Green Club
  • Shinpukuji Temple bonsai museum
  • Bonsai museum at Shinpukuji Temple
  • Aichi-en bonsai nursery
  • Visit to Daiju-en
  • Takeo Kawabe’s bonsai garden
  • Mansai-en bonsai garden
  • Maintaining a beautiful bonsai garden
  • Suzuki’s bonsai workshop
  • Shinji Suzuki’s bonsai garden
  • REBS 28th Annual bonsai show – continued
  • Enjoying a bonsai exhibit
  • Redwood Empire Bonsai Society’s 28th Annual Show
  • Which way does it go?
  • Bonsai maintenance
  • Scenes from a Kondo workshop
  • San Francisco Suiseki Kai – 30th annual exhibit
  • Kondo critique at Bay Island Bonsai
  • Brushing branches
  • Fall decandling – year two
  • Big cut – crape myrtle
  • Witnessed in a recent workshop – grafting follow-up and junipers
  • Summer at the Lake Merritt Bonsai Garden
  • Decandling before and after – red pine forest
  • Decandling Japanese black pine
  • Pine decandling
  • Korean hornbeam – summer work
  • Evaluating bonsai
  • Decandling shohin black pine
  • How to create seedling cuttings – Japanese black pine
  • Defoliating Trident Maple
  • Satsuki Blossoms
  • Bay Area Satsuki Aikokai 17th annual exhibit
  • Refining cork bark black pine – decandling
  • Thinning Japanese black pine
  • Best repotting of the year
  • Bonsai apprentices online
  • Restoring a Japanese black pine bonsai
  • Thinning a red pine forest
  • New bonsai tweezers
  • Cutback – Korean hornbeam
  • Fall decandling – thinning new buds
  • Restoring an old Japanese maple
  • Restoring a Japanese beech
  • Evaluating bonsai at Bay Island Bonsai meeting
  • Cryptomeria from air layer
  • How to air layer cryptomeria for bonsai
  • Air layering a zelkova bonsai
  • How to repot a young Japanese black pine (2 of 2)
  • How to repot a young Japanese black pine (1 of 2)
  • Repotting a Japanese plum
  • Repotting Korean hornbeam
  • Refining a corkbark black pine
  • Witnessed in a recent workshop
  • Juniper pests
  • Bonsai ray gun
  • Extended bonsai study with Boon
  • Restoring a Japanese maple grove
  • More from BABA’s 29th Annual Exhibit
  • Bay Area Bonsai Associates 29th Annual Show
  • Megumi’s Bonsai Art
  • Chinese Garden of Friendship
  • What’s with the white stuff?
  • GSBF Collection North
  • GSBF Mammoth Fundraiser 2011
  • An unusual collected juniper
  • Show trees are full trees
  • Penjing
  • Three-point displays
  • Juniper bonsai
  • Akio Kondo Bonsai Award – 2011
  • Members’ Choice Awards
  • Play of light
  • Twelve years later
  • Big cuts
  • Refining shohin black pine
  • Cleaning up a corkbark black pine
  • Cutback – Yaupon holly
  • Japanese Winterberry – fall work
  • Ume – cutback and grafting
  • Fall work – Korean hornbeam
  • Finding the front – Japanese red pine
  • Finding the front – Japanese black pine
  • Fall decandling – an update
  • Peter Tea styles Japanese black pine
  • Maruyama Bonsai Nursery
  • Tropical bonsai at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum
  • National Bonsai and Penjing Museum – North American Pavilion
  • National Bonsai and Penjing Museum
  • More from GSBF Convention Exhibit
  • Golden State Bonsai Federation XXXIII Convention Exhibit
  • Accenting bonsai
  • East Bay Bonsai Society’s 49th annual show
  • More fall decandling
  • Fall decandling
  • Bonsai soil
  • Decandling a red pine forest – part 2
  • Bonsai accents
  • What’s in the trunk?
  • Redwood Empire Bonsai Society – 27th Annual Show
  • Summer Soji
  • Hinoki workshop
  • Daisaku Nomoto – bonsai work
  • Daisaku Nomoto bonsai critique
  • How to decandle shohin black pine
  • Cork bark Japanese black pine – finding the front
  • Decandling cork bark Japanese black pine
  • Why decandle?
  • Decandling secrets revealed!
  • Decandling techniques
  • Decandling basics – Japanese black pine
  • Decandling black pine – case study
  • Decandling a red pine forest
  • Decandling black pine – case study
  • Suiseki on display
  • California Suiseki Society 15th Annual Show
  • Satsuki bonsai blooms
  • Bay Area Satsuki Aikokai 16th Annual Exhibit
  • Trident maple bonsai – spring cutback
  • Developing Japanese winterberry
  • Spring accent plants
  • Suiseki in Sacramento
  • Mino yatsubusa and other bonsai fun
  • Sacramento Bonsai Club – 64th Annual Show
  • Planting pine seeds
  • Case study: balance – follow-up
  • Case study: balance
  • Bonsai Stands
  • Spring bonsai display
  • Repotting a Japanese maple
  • Bonsai fertilizer
  • Pine seed prep
  • Yaupon holly bonsai
  • Balance
  • Accent plants
  • Bay Area Bonsai Associates 28th Annual Show
  • Bonsai stories
  • Maples!
  • Shohin pot display
  • California Shohin Seminar
  • Accenting itself
  • Trunk grafting – black pine
  • Developing black pine
  • Repotting and grafting ume
  • Repotting a Western juniper
  • Moss technique
  • Bonsai groves
  • Accent plants
  • How to put on a bonsai show
  • BIB 11th annual exhibit – conifers
  • BIB 11th annual exhibit – shohin
  • BIB 11th annual exhibit – deciduous and broadleaf trees
  • BIB 11th annual exhibit – black pine
  • Repotting a Japanese black pine
  • Pass the sock
  • Bonsai Tonight – a history
  • Pot selection redux
  • Show pots
  • Age, character, and beauty
  • Repotting a trident maple: finishing touches
  • Repotting a trident maple: securing the tree in the pot
  • Repotting a trident maple: root-work
  • Repotting a trident maple: preparing the pot
  • Repotting a trident maple: removing the tree from the pot
  • Impending Exhibit
  • Unwanted moss, or, Nomoto’s paradox
  • Removing old leaves
  • Western juniper
  • Preparing for winter
  • Peter Tea wins New Talent Competition
  • The future behind us
  • BIB practice display
  • More pine cone technique
  • Pine cone technique
  • More from EBBS – outstanding Shore juniper
  • East Bay Bonsai Society’s 48th Annual Show
  • Best in show
  • Midori’s 40th annual bonsai show
  • Bristlecone pine deadwood
  • Most ancient forest
  • Bristlecone pine
  • Limber pine
  • Deadwood story
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  • Akio Kondo critique
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  • Preparing a display
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  • Summer cutback – Ume
  • Bay Area Satsuki Aikokai 15th Annual Exhibit
  • Visitation rights
  • Utah juniper
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  • Of candles and cones
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  • Recent pine work
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