Pruning, Trimming, and Pinching
NIBS June 2011 Bonsai School Part 3 -Tree Structure Part 1
This video was recorded during a NIBS Bonsai School in June 2011. The focus of the clip is Peter Snart of Willowbog Bonsai explaining the structure of Deciduous Bonsai. Part 1 looks at Nebari/Roots, Trunk and Primary Branch Str...
Japanese Larch Branch Refinement
The video shows the procedure of branch refinement to build ramification on Larch branches by removing the overly large branch tips and replacing them with finer growth from further back on the branch.
Please watch to the end ...
Big Cuts
On my first and only visit to Kihachiro Kamiya’s nursery in 1999, I found Daisaku Nomoto working on a young black pine. It was close to 30 years old, and the tree was beautiful to me; it had a large base and fast taper and wa...
Working deadwood and locating living veins
In bonsai one of the things we use to make our trees look older is deadwood carving or the making of Jins and shari. Jins are branch stumps that are carved in such a manner they look like they broke in a natural way. Shari on t...
Root Pruning And Why – Part Two
The two worst scenarios you are likely to encounter in dealing with nursery trees are the mud ball core and layered concentric roots. Both conditions are caused by the way trees are handled in the nursery trade. The first, the ...
Root Pruning and Why
Probably the most misunderstood practice in bonsai is the art of Root Pruning. When I first started growing bonsai, root pruning was not a subject often breached by gardeners as a common practice for growing anything. It was ki...
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