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The days in Canberra at the Bonsai Reshaped 2024 are busy. Next week a members video from the Arboretum will be posted, but until then a few more posts from the event.

Stunning location in Canberra where the event Bonsai reshaped takes place these days.

My Monday Senior Crew and I organized a special celebration to commemorate the total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, 2024. Rochester, New York, was in the direct path of totality for the solar eclipse as it stretched across 15 states. Schools closed as well as many businesses, including Wegmans for about an hour.

Our bonsai break bud at different times. When is best to repot? Do we repot them all at once?

Tomorrow I leave for Australia to join up with Marija Hajdic when we arrive down under. This year the Bonsai Reshaped event is held over 4 days April 11-14. Demonstrations workshops and lots of social connections are part of this big Australian event.

There are many techniques involved in creating bonsai. Wiring is one of those essentials. Wiring is used to redirect branches and shape these to recreate the image of an old tree. Big or small, wiring is not to be avoided and especially at a young stage wiring branches helps develop the tree. Older trees need more care and less wiring but when needed it must be done carefully to avoid an old branch being harmed.

Fronts are personal decisions.
Fronts can also be a reminder of how dumb you were last year. Which relates to the previous statement.

For the last two years I’ve been working with a species that’s new to me – the jabuticaba (Plinia cauliflora). It’s a fruit tree native to Brazil that produces sweet fruit in summer.

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Here are a few photos from this spring’s repotting in Seasonal Workshops. Each has a note about what we were doing.