A few stills captured from Capital Bonsai’s video on grafting that features Ryan Neil owner of Mirai American Bonsai and major player in this fall’s Artisans Cup bonsai exhibition in Portland, Oregon.
I’m out of town visiting friends for the weekend, so to spare me putting together a new post, we’ll jump into our time machine this morning. All the way back to November, 2012. We could just forgo a post today and no one would complain, but I wanted to remind you that our Stone Lantern FREE bonsai wire offering ends tonight at 11:59pm EDT (Just write FREE in the comments when you order – see below for details).
Note from the present: Capital Bonsai blog (next paragraph) has been dormant since Aarin Packard moved from the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum to the Pacific Bonsai Museum (we just posted something from the Pacific Bonsai Museum couple days ago). However, you can still visit Capital Bonsai and enjoy its rich cornucopia of bonsai wisdom.
Now for the original post:
Capital Bonsai (the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum‘s excellent blog) is at it again. This time it’s an outstanding video on grafting featuring Ryan Neil of International Bonsai Mirai.
Fall versus spring grafting. Here’s what Ryan has to say about fall versus spring grafting (loosely paraphrased): Grafting in the fall is more successful than in the spring if you can provide winter protection from freezing. If you graft in spring you have to protect from sun and wind. In the fall you have to protect from freezing.
The right tool for the job. A quality grafting knife is essential for quality grafts.
This compelling photo of suiseki at the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum is from Capital Bonsai.
Here’s an opportunity to do something that will have a long-lasting positive effect on our world (I don’t think this Campaign is current, but the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum accepts contributions year round).
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