This image is from Bonsai Today issue 48. The details are a little on the small side, so we’ll break it into pieces for you. Step 1. 4mm is almost exactly 5/32″ BTW: if you need a quality grafting knife… Share
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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Contest #6: Paint-by-Numbers!!??
The image that was in this space has been removed at the request of the artist. My apologies for any problems we’ve caused for the artist or anyone else. I picked this image up on Bunjin Journal. It’s a strange and wonderful site, with some parts just wonderful and some parts wonderfully strange. The image [...]
Posted in Styling Tagged Bunjin Journal, Contest, Stone Lantern, The Art of Bonsai Project 1 Comment
Speaking of Kusamono & Companion Plants
An exquisite kusamono from our Japanese mystery book. Because I don’t read Japanese, I can’t say what the grass is (can you?), who the potter is, or even, what the name of the book is. However, I can say, with complete confidence, that the whole arrangement is beautiful. What does Kusamono mean? In his book [...]
Posted in Styling Tagged Accent plant, Bonsai Kusamono Suiseki, Companion plants, Daizo Iwasaki, Kusamono, Morten Albek, Shitakusa, Shohin Bonsai book, Tokonoma, Willi Benz 5 Comments
Wendy Heller’s Bonsai & Companion Pots
One of Wendy Heller’s pots with a hen-and-chick type succulent that I dug up in my yard. Some very sweet little pots A couple years ago I worked with Wendy Heller on a publishing project. In the process, I had the good fortune of getting to know Wendy a bit (phone and email) and decided [...]
Contest #5: We’ve got a Winner (Sort of)
Still a mystery I lifted this shohin black pine is from the American Shohin-Bonsai Association gallery. I couldn’t find who the artist is anywhere (and their contact link isn’t working), so I figured if I used it for our contest, someone would let me know. No such luck, so it’s still a mystery to me. [...]
Posted in Styling Tagged American Shohin-Bonsai Association, Contest, Japanese Black Pines, Shohin Bonsai, Vinicius Costas 3 Comments
Green Workshop: Yet Another Watering Problem
Tomohiro Masumi watering Shohin bonsai at Koju-en in Kyoto. From Shohin Bonsai by Morten Albek. Yet Another Watering Problem… The following is by Michael Hagedorn from his website Crataegus Bonsai. Probably the worst thing we might encounter when we have a hose in our hand is a tree that, when we think about it, has [...]
Posted in Cuttings Tagged Crataegus Bonsai, Koju-en, Michael Hagedorn, Morten Albek, Post-Dated, Root rot, Shohin Bonsai, Shohin Bonsai book, Tomohiro Masumi, Watering Bonsai 2 Comments
Jin & Shari #5: Carving Jin with a Draw Knife
In this series of photos (from our Juniper book), Hideki Nakayatsu turns a needle juniper on its side to work on the apical jin (jin can be either a dead branch or a dead top of the trunk). He is using is a draw knife to carve natural looking grooves in the wood. Though there [...]
Contest Deadline; Midnight Friday Night
It’s time to wrap up our latest contest. Submit your answers (if you have any) by 11:59pm EDT (Eastern Daylight Time, USA), Friday the 24th. If no one comes up with all the correct answers, then whoever comes closest is the lucky one. Ties go to the earliest submission. Good luck! Share
Green Workshop: Bonsai Branching Basics
Both illustrations in this post are from Bonsai Today issue 92. Learn the rules first, then break them Though nothing is written in stone, understanding the basics can be very helpful. If the points shown here are not that familiar, you might want to take some time with each one. As you apply them, your [...]
