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I am styling a Japanese black pine Shohin bonsai. Step by step each detail is shown and explained. Learn about the styling process and how to balance health between each branch.

Like last week’s post, here’s a GIF to help visualize pruning. 

The Live Q&A is kept as it is and will run on the last Thursday of every month, except for the Christmas holidays.

The most consistent fall color in my garden each year can be found on a red maple forest planting that was started by a friend’s father back in the early 80s.

The highly regarded and anticipated Winter Silhouette Bonsai Expo was again held at the North Carolina Research Center in Kannapolis, outside Charlotte, NC, on December 2-3, 2023.

A GIF makes it easier to visualize branch removal.
Here’s a Chojubai as an example of fall pruning. The pruning shown here may be applied to many shrubs.

Temperatures are dropping these days. Not a lot but freezing it is and this demands some caretaking bringing shohin bonsai into the storage room. After a very wet period, cold can be very destructive. Soil filled with water freezing can both harm not-so-strong pots, and it will often damage the roots. We will look into that in the Live Zoom Q&A on Thursday at 8 PM (UTC +1). Also, topics like balancing the tree in the pot and how to add direction a topics to be put in the spotlight.

World Heritage Kiyomizu Temple Bonsai Suiseki Exhibition, November 24-27, 2023 Kyoto, Japan.

Nippon Bonsai Taikan Ten Exhibition- Part 2
Musk Maple, Premna japonica

Nippon Bonsai Taikan Ten Exhibition, November 24-27, 2023, Miyako Messe, Kyoto