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Wire Bonsai Sculptures

I started visiting bonsai nurseries and retail outlets that I’ve never even bothered to look at in the past and the trees they carried really inspired me.  The people at these nurseries were really knowledgeable and offered ...



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New Flowering Companion Plants…

The words ‘companion’ and ‘accent’ are used interchangeably to indicate a plant or object used in bonsai display. Last year I made a post of several in my backyard… http://crataegus.com/2010/05/13/accents/ …and here...


Nature is the best teacher in shaping and growing bonsai. Observing the shape of the giant trees in nature will give inspirations to the bonsai man to design their bonsai. The intention is shaping a bonsai inline with the way of the tree grow in nature.

Bonsai and Nature

I remember when I first learned bonsai, quite often I imagined of having giant trees I saw in nature but in a small scale, so that I could carry each of them with my hands. I was so much amazed by that idea, so that I used to t...




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Finding the Tree Within

Co-authored by Will Heath There comes a time in the design of every bonsai where the artist must decide on a path to follow, a path that will bring out the full artistic potential of the tree, while using only what it offers, c...



Yamadori Along The Adriatic Coast

Yamadori Along The Adriatic Coast

Many people familiar with bonsai and collecting, think that good yamadori are to find only in the high mountains. Well less is truth. I was born on one of the many islands along the Adriatic coast in Croatia. As a child, I went...