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- A visit to the Bonsai Pavilion at Safari Park
- Right-sizing a bonsai collection
- Separating a ground layer on a shohin olive
- A look inside The Essential Bonsai Book
- A visit to Kenji Miyata’s garden
- Highlights from the 2025 Atlanta Bonsai Society Annual Show
- A visit to the Chinese Garden at the Huntington
- Visiting the GSBF Collection at The Huntington
- Highlights from BABA and California Shohin Seminar
- Introducing The Essential Bonsai Book
- Pot selection exercise – ume
- Appreciating shohin displays at Gafu-ten
- Award-winning shohin display at the 50th Gafu-ten
- Special displays at the 50th Gafu-ten
- Fall work basics – black and red pine
- Refining a field-grown cork bark elm
- Developing red maple bonsai
- Shopping for pre-bonsai
- Viewing bonsai in the right light
- Outstanding deciduous bonsai at the PBE
- PBE Board Announces “Directors’ Choice Award”
- Top tips for enjoying the Pacific Bonsai Expo
- Shohin olive ground-layer
- How to judge a bonsai show – highlights from the Minnesota State Fair
- Developing shohin olives
- Top 5 updates about the 2024 Pacific Bonsai Expo
- Summer cutback on a large cork oak
- Decandling an old cork bark black pine
- Shohin redwood update
- What are your club’s goals?
- The middle stages of pine development – my favorite!
- Timeline for preparing bonsai for exhibit
- Cork oak branch development
- A two-year air-layer project
- Stimulating new buds on cork oak
- A brief visit to Bonsai Mirai
- Shohin redwood creation
- Pruning and repotting a clump style jabuticaba
- Early spring work
- Repotting Strategy
- 2024 PBE: Submissions are open
- Takeaways from the second Shohin School Winter Seminar
- Baikoen Bonsai Kenkyukai 60th Annual Winter Silhouettes Show Highlights
- 2024 Pacific Bonsai Expo updates
- Fall cutback on ume
- Trident maple fall pruning and Expo update
- Red maple forest fall cleanup
- Bonsai display basics
- Highlights from the 8th US National Bonsai Exhibition – part 3: Shohin edition
- A visit to Bill Valavanis’ bonsai garden
- Making a plan for a new bonsai
- Preparing for exhibits 12 months out
- Preparing an olive for restyling
- Highlights from the 8th US National Bonsai Exhibition – part 2
- Highlights from the 8th US National Bonsai Exhibition – part 1
- Highlights from the 37th REBS bonsai show – part 2
- Highlights from the 37th REBS bonsai show – part 1
- Creating redwood bonsai: reducing the sacrifice branch
- Creating shohin beautyberry
- Cork oak pruning follow-up
- Post-bloom thinning satsuki azalea
- Should I fertilize my decandled pines in summer?
- Setting up redwoods for bonsai work: step 0
- Coast redwood development update
- Wiring at decandling time
- Cutback at decandling time
- Exhibit Books
- Spring cutback on stewartia
- Review: Mastering Shohin Japanese Black Pine Bonsai
- Cutback and leaf pruning European beech
- A visit to Bonsai Mirai
- A visit to the Clark Bonsai Collection
- Tips for hosting a successful workshop
- Tips for a successful workshop
- Post-bloom clean-up on wisteria
- Is bonsai getting harder?
- Setting up an effective workstation
- You just finished repotting – now what?
- 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
- Foxtail pine
- Summer Fruit
- Judging bonsai at REBS
- REBS 26th Annual Show
- Big bend
- Where to start?
- Restoring a white pine
- Akio Kondo critique
- Project trees
- Three more from Urushibata
- From the Daiju En collection
- Ooishi’s deciduous work
- More from Shinpukuji
- Ebihara Technique
- Bonsai pots from Japan
- Where there is jackie there is a way
- Preparing a display
- Learning the art of bonsai display
- Summer ritual – decandling black pine
- Sizing up candles
- Summer cutback – Korean hornbeam
- Leaf pruning – stewartia
- Summer cutback – Japanese plum
- Summer cutback – Ume
- Bay Area Satsuki Aikokai 15th Annual Exhibit
- Visitation rights
- Utah juniper
- Singleleaf ash
- Pinyon pines
- Of candles and cones
- Where does the first branch go?
- Bonsai Focus
- Hashimoto
- Taikan Bonsai Museum
- Green Club
- Urushibata
- Takagi
- Ooishi
- Daiju En
- Okamoto
- Shinpukuji Temple and Environs
- Kawabe
- Ebihara
- Winter at GSBF Collection North
- BABA Annual Exhibit
- An Exhibit of Fine Bonsai
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