• 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…

  • Keyaki workshop

    I went to north of Copenhagen a little two hours drive away today, to do a workshop at the local bonsai club, Keyaki Bonsai Club. I had a moment to make some snapshots of a few shohin i.e., during a break from leading the workshop. [slideshow]