• Pots for Shohin and Mame trees

    Article published at www.bonsaiempire.com Oscar Jonker asked for an article for publishing at Bonsai Empire. So I wrote an article about Shohin-bonsai pots. I hope you will enjoy it. http://www.bonsaiempire.com/advanced/shohin-pots

  • Late winter spring signs

    Spring is not here yet, but the buds on the Shohin shows signs already on coming growth. Buds are swelling here in the last winter month (officially), and mild weather is here at the moment. Still to early to move bonsai from their shelter in the…

  • Bonsai display the original way

    I just launched a re-edited version of my “bonsai display” section at www.shohin-europe.com I hope to share the art of displaying bonsai the original way with you. Bonsai displaying has an out-spring from the Japanese landscape painting, and is clearly connected to the viewing of…

  • Happy New Year 2011

    I wish you all a prosperous and happy new year 2011. My plans for the year to come is another trip to Japan in the summer. I look forward to this adventure exploring bonsai and Japanese gardens with two friends of mine. Also at the…

  • Winter storage

    It was time to put the Shohin into their cold greenhouse storage today. Cold nights are starting and wet weather too some days. Frost appeared this night and morning, and the sun added some mood to this lovely scenery too. [slideshow]

  • Mushrooms in autumn

    Here in the late part of autumn, some lovely mushrooms shows up in a bonsai pot of a Rhododendron lysolepsis. This is another sign of autumn, here where nearly all the beautiful colours of the leafs have dropped from deciduous trees. The mushrooms do no…

  • Cancelling

    Unfortunately I have to cancel the trip to Italy this time to the Sakka Ten. I hope everybody will have a nice time and I look forward to take the next one. Regards, Morten Albek

  • Sakka ten preparations

    Sakka Ten in Padova is three weeks from now, so it was time to do the final preperations and smalller corrections for the Shohin display I had selected. Fresh mosses are applied, trunks are cleaned and minor corretions like removing wire were performed today. The…