Rules of Bonsai?

Though I don’t think this has much to do with ‘rules of bonsai,’ I like a well done bonsai drawing and this one qualifies. I found it here. The post is titled ‘?5º Workshop Bonsai Morro Velho.’ Rules or guidelines? I agree with Brent Walston when he says rules is probably the worst word (below). I would scrap it and just use guidelines. Anyway whatever word you like, I thought you might find this useful, or interesting, maybe even interesting enough to provoke a comment and start a discussion. I found it on Bonsai Chat Room. It was posted by … Continue reading Rules of Bonsai?

Grafting Lesson: Japanese Black Pine

In this simple and clear video, Brent Walston of Evergreen Gardenworks provides an excellent lesson in grafting scions onto root stock. In this case the scion is a Japanese black pine varietal called Hayabusa (Pinus thunbergii ‘Hayabusa’), which is a dwarf cork barked cultivar (nishiki kuro matsu) with very dense foliage. The root stock is your basic Japanese black pine (Pinus thunbergii). Brent uses Japanese black pine as stock for a number of black and white pine cultivars. If you want to try your hand at grafting, you’ll need a sharp grafting knife and some grafting tape.