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Though this little Juniper has already made a cameo or two on the blog, this post is a photo essay of the construction and thinking behind its new metal support.

At the start of the pandemic in April of 2020 my apprentice at the time, John Eads, and I took off for a burn area in a forest. We were seeking a charred log for a new project.

Summer is a good time to look at dwarf flowering quince ‘Chojubai’ and determine what, if anything, needs trimming.

While conifers are often wired for minute adjustment of twigs, the approach for deciduous trees is often with scissors.

Many of us want moss in our bonsai garden—a green carpet we can walk on to visit our royals on their posts and benches.

This is not a juniper variety we see often these days, Foemina. It was really popular back in John Naka’s day, in fact his brilliant “Goshin”—part of the National Bonsai Collection—is made of Foemina.

A couple weeks ago on the Bonsai Wire podcast Carmen Leskoviansky and I covered “Shade Cloth”.

If we wire our trees, we might wonder this.
We notice that there are times of the year that wire bites in. And there are times that it doesn’t.