Spotted in the Wild
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Rulebreaking 101 – Crape Myrtle
Bonsai Odds & Ends – Fall Arrives
Roughleaf Dogwood Ugly Duckling Update
A Big Huckleberry Gets Styled
Bonsai Odds & Ends – Trumpet Vine, Yaupon, Spekboom
Time To Overpot A Spekboom – Again
Bald Cypress Fun In 2021
Privet Progression – A Fast Year
Chinese Elm Forest Fun
Bonsai Odds & Ends – Elm, Maple, Hawthorn
Field-growing satsuki azaleas at Takahashi Engei
My recent trip to Japan included some satsuki sightseeing at Takahashi Engei – a large azalea grower in Kanuma City. Kazuhiro Takahashi showed us around his growing fields which gave us a good look at the stages azaleas…
Onuma’s mini-bonsai growing techniques
A number of you wrote with questions about the techniques Kazuo Onuma uses to create his mini-bonsai last week. Here are some answers! Chojubai Onuma grows chojubai by starting young cuttings in round, plastic…
Development Work On A Very Large Water-Elm
Forest Bug Continues – Water-Elm Plan Works
Onuma’s mini-sized bonsai
After spending two days in the Tokyo area to see the Kokufu exhibit, I took a day trip to Shizuoka to visit Kazuo Onuma . Onuma is a grower who specializes in mini-sized bonsai. He’s been working with trees for…
Accents displayed at the 94th Kokufu-ten
If you look next to every great tree at the Kokufu bonsai exhibit, you’ll find a small companion plant at its side. Korean hornbeam display Accent plants, or shitakusa (“under weeds”) as they are known in Japanese,…
Potting And Repotting – Water-Elm, Boxelder, Lantana
Bonsai Odds & Ends – Hophornbeam & Dogwood
Prize-winning trees from the 94th Kokufu Bonsai Exhibition
The Kokufu-ten is Japan’s top bonsai exhibit. It’s presented in two halves. One hundred and fifty-one displays are set up for a few days, then another one hundred and fifty-one displays are set up after a day-off to…
Chinese Elm: Unsurpassed
A historic spruce at the 94th Kokufu exhibition
This year’s Kokufu exhibition featured a special display of books and posters from early exhibits. Posters from early Kokufu exhibitions I only glanced at the posters on my first visit to the show before quickly moving…
Let’s Go Water-Elm Rafting
A Few Final Images…..
Here are a few images from our tour. I hope you enjoyed the photos and remember, the good photos will appear in future issues of International BONSAI. (hint, subscribe please)…
2020 7th Japan Suiseki Exhibition
The 2020 7 th Japan Suiseki Exhibition is being held on February 14-18, 2020 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan. This is in the same building as the Kokufu Bonsai Exhibition, but on a…