• Private Japanese bonsai collections

    Private Japanese bonsai collections may not look like how you expect them to look like. Always we watch photos showing great bonsai at Japanese exhibitions, and from professional nurseries. I think many enthusiasts have a belief that all bonsai in Japan are that great. They…

  • Horsetail Kusamono

    The Kusamono Dwarf Horsetail, Equisetum scirpoides, is a gift from a good bonsai friend. He didn’t remember the name, so I had to research a bit to find the correct name of it. I like the elegant structure with the tiny dark knees dividing each of…

  • Tokonoma in the garden

    On request I here show how the Tokonoma in my bonsai garden was established. It was built during the summer 2016. I did not do a sketch first, so no drawings and precise measures are available. The inner space is a bit larger than a…

  • Rules rules – too much

    What is it about rules in bonsai? Rules seems to rule, often too much. I really believe in the historical heritage of bonsai have to be taken seriously, and be part of the moderne development of bonsai. Sometimes though, bonsai people have a tendency to…

  • Displaying bonsai

    Just came back from a nice weekend with bonsai exhibition. New and old trees. New and old friends. As it should be. Photos at the bottom, and in the Photos section (Now open for everybody). Always enjoying watching old trees again, seeing how they have…

  • Bonsai birthday all forgotten

    I really did forget the birthday of this website. October 15th 2003 the Shohin Bonsai Europe website went on air for the first time. Quite a history of 15 years of ongoing publications and alway trying to keep the page on top and modern. Not…

  • Bonsai blog in Magazine

    The bonsai and garden on its way to a Magazine. Blogs featured Yesterday journalist and Photographer Julie Vöge entered the garden. To do a reportage on my garden and bonsai blogs. Beside the bonsai blog your read here, I also have a Danish garden blog…

  • FREE Vlog 10 and bonsai social meeting

    This month the Vlog is free. Celebrating we aired Vlog number 10. Watch it at the bottom of this article or at the ♦ Vlog page. Sign up to watch all videos published. Yesterday I went to a bonsai social meeting at Martin Nielsens garden in Denmark. A…

  • Rainy bonsai exhibition

    For some reason unknown, and maybe needed to be searched deep in our souls, it nearly always rains and is a bit chilly (sometimes really cold) when we at Fuchi Bonsai have our yearly exhibition at The Japanese Gardens in Denmark. Even in a time…

  • Garden Tokonoma display

    WHAT DO YOU PREFER? The Bonsai Video Studio has been online 7 months now. We publish two videos (sometimes more) a month. Is that what you want? Or do you prefer shorter videos published more often? Please add your vote at our Facebook poll. This will…