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Bonsai questions from Japan, Canada and the UK
Q&A from Japan, Canada, and the UK are featured in the new episode launched today at Kisetsu-en Bonsai Online. Dealing with various questions about brown needles at coniferous bonsai, roots, and soil problems at Japanese maples, + timing wiring for deciduous bonsai. The watering and…
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Next bonsai video and new upcoming format
We are entering autumn/fall little by little. Slowly days are getting shorter and colder. Autumn can be everything from wet, windy, and warm to sunny, silent, and cold. In the next episode, released Thursday, October 8, we focus on watering, feeding, and fungal diseases. Added…
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Bonsai Scots pine styling
Dear readers of my blog. I hope you enjoy the upcoming autumn/fall, despite the Corona still being around. In Thursday’s episode (online from September 24th) I continue the work on a Scots pine collected in Sweden more than three years ago. Continuing the development from…
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The beauty of Scots pines
The beauty of Scots pines has grown on me. I usually say I do not have preferences about which species I prefer for bonsai. But I have to admit that the Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris, is trying to be on top of that non-existing list…
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Fuchi Bonsai 10th anniversary exhibition
The past weekend we celebrated the 10th-anniversary exhibition at the Japanese Gardens in Broby, Denmark. For once, the weather was fair with only one short shower. For some reason, the weather turns bad every time we exhibit. 😀 The exhibition The Fuchi Bonsai exhibition is…
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Food for thoughts and for bonsai
Bonsai fertilization is almost like talking soil types. So many different opinions on how, when, and what. Food for thoughts and for bonsai Don’t miss the importance of feeding your bonsai right. It has a big influence on the development of branches, leaves, and flower…
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Bonsai Q&A Yamadori, pines and junipers
Our bonsai Q&A is online answering 3 questions from our dedicated members. This time we zoom in a Yamadori aftercare, developing pines (old and young), and take a look at developing new growth a Shimpaku and Itoigawa junipers. Af full 43 minutes episode available now…
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Healing deciduous bonsai scars
Thinking back on one of the trips to Japan in 2005. Travel with friends, looking at Japanese gardens. And most of all. Looking at bonsai. In Takamatsu we found some bonsai nurseries selling fine and cheap pre-bonsai material. At that time I wanted some pre-bonsai…
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Saika Bonsai
This weeks episode at Kisetsu-en Bonsai Online is a corporation with Thor Holvila Bonsai Pots. Saika at Seikou-en Saika bonsai is a modern variation of bonsai. The video this week takes a look at how to improve it from being just a decoration and adding…
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Hot, hot, hot bonsai
It heats up around here. Watering three times a day at the moment. Hot weather demands extra care for the bonsai, and moving them around to avoid leaf burns is what I do these days. A few leaves edge dried on one Japanese maple, but…
