Peaceful Lagoon, our third in a series of plantings from Toshio Kawamoto’s Saikei classic. The trees are five to twenty-year-old Japanese black pines. The pot (Tokoname) is similar to the ones in the previous two landscapes, though quite a bit larger. An invitation The purpose of this section is to show how to create a [...]
Disembodied shoulder, arm, hand and bonsai by Frank Kelly of the Canberra Bonsai Society. Our Bonsai Art Contest is off to good start! Enter and win! Send us your bonsai drawing or painting or photo of a bonsai sculpture (or…?) and you just might win. Prizes First prize is a $60 gift certificate to Stone [...]
Acacia longifolia. So sweet. The leaves are a little big, but that’s the nature of the plant. Otherwise, this bonsai has it all: gnarly aged trunk with a little see-though action and excellent fluid movement. Nice jin. Perfect pot. Great tree! Australian Native Plants as Bonsai I found this tree, the one below, and numerous [...]
Up against the wall! I borrowed this from Rosade Bonsai Studio website. And, no, you don’t need new glasses; it’s a little fuzzy because I increased the size to fit it into our format (see below for the original unfuzzy, uncropped version). I don’t know who lives here I don’t know who lives here, or [...]
Suthin Sukosolvisit. The old pro at work. From the album, World Bonsai Convention 2009 by Candy J. Shirey. One of the very best Suthin Sukosolvisit is one of the very best shohin artists working in the West. He and Dara (Suthin’s kind and gentle wife) own Royal Bonsai in the Boston area, though your chances [...]
The styling progression on this cascade Shimpaku juniper by Shinji Suzuki is remarkable (you can see the whole step by step progression in our Juniper book). So is the end result. Remarkable and very unusual. Shinji Suzuki styled it when he was 24 years old. I wonder if he would do it differently now. It’s [...]
How many times have seen a bonsai that’s big enough to sit its shade? The young lady languishing on the pot is Solita Rosade. The older gentleman next to her looks a lot like Chase Rosade. And no, I don’t think it’s a plastic tree at Disney World. More like a real live ficus in [...]
Azalea flowers from the cover of Satsuki Azaleas for Bonsai & Azalea Entusiasts. Satsuki shears are used to shape azaleas after the spring bloom and before the new buds set in the late summer/early fall. Not only does this technique keep azaleas in shape, it can also increase next years flower crop (be careful though, [...]
