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Bonsai Focus with Tomohiro Masumi
In the November/December 2011 issue of the international Bonsai Focus magazine, articles with Japanese Shohin-bonsai expert Tomohiro Masumi will be published.I have produced the articles at my latest trip to Japan, and hope you will like the result. Tomohiro Masumi at the Koju-en nursery in…
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Kusamono / accents in early autumn
The accents starts to show the first colours of autumn. Especially the Sedum and Saxifraga species have their highlight of the season in autumn I find. Sedum floriferum ´Weihenstefaner Gold´ Sedum
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Juniper first step styling
In the spring I acquired a raw stock Juniperus chinensis from a local bonsai shop. It was an award for a prize at the national exhibition. I selected this one from a selection of a few trees available. The reason why I chose this item…
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Potentilla 6 years of progress
Six years ago I started this Potentilla fruticosa `Kobolt´from a raw nursery material. A simple method of developing shohin-bonsai is to collect a already grown tree or bush, cut it back hard and start from the basic building up branches from scratch. This is only…
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Please respect copyrights
A little post here concerning the use of material that happens to be re-used by others throughout the web. I am happy to share my photos and content on the website and blog I am running, but I am not so happy when it is…
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Japan growth versus northern Europe
Climate has a big influence on the growth. The warmer Japanese climate, high air humidity and long growing seasons make the Japanese bonsai grow with great speed and far quicker than us using the northern hemisphere as base. The shorter growing season here do develop…
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Mame-bonsai
Mame-bonsai is growing in popularity like shohin at this time. The prize of the larger trees are going lower and lower, because shohin is growing so much still. A few places are keen to develop mame-bonsai (Mame Bonsai or bean-size bonsai is less than 10…
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Full sun for your bonsai
My travel mate and I had the privilege to re-visit Tomohiro Masumi at the Koju-en shohin-bonsai nursery in Kyoto. We had a very pleasant time as always with Tomohiro. One of the important lessons at this visit was always to keep your shohin in as…
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Levels of shohin growing
The way shohin-bonsai is grown in Japan may differ some from the western way. There are two ways of starting material in Japan. Some amateurs like to grow cuttings and make material from seeds. This lower level material is then after some development sold to…
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Bonsai in Japan 2011
Recently I went home after a two weeks travel to Japan. Humidity and temperatures went to the sky, but the experiences did too. Seeing Japanese bonsai in the flesh is an experience to learn from when possible. Probably it will be a while before going…
