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Kinbon Magazine interview
In the October issue of the Japanese bonsai magazine, Kinbon Magazine, a large article featured Shohin-bonsai expert Tomohiro Masumi at his tour in Denmark and Russia earlier this summer. Interviews with Morten Albek was a part of the four pages article covering the Danish Bonsai…
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Displaying Shohin-bonsai
The featured images are from the SHOHIN BONSAI FAIR “the 19th Shuga-ten” held in Tokyo, JAPAN, kindly supported by the Japanese Shohin-bonsai Association. Now the display section of the website here is almost updated and reconstructed from the original website. The final transfers of material…
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Some more colours from today
The colder weather enhances the colours further. Here a few more photos from large to small bonsai from today. Please enjoy.
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Autumn shows
The autumn starts to show the beauty of the season in Denmark. The colder days lately begins to pay of at the Japanese Maple leaves. The next week will enhance this further. Pictures from the entrance of my garden and a few items at the…
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Preparing for autumn bonsai exhibition in Japanese garden
Tonight I will meet with friends and prepare for an autumn exhibition and demo in The Japanese Gardens in Denmark. We will make a small exhibition with bonsai and Shohin-bonsai, doing some demonstrations/workshops for the visitors. The Japanese Gardens is a beautiful place not so…
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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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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…
