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Tosho Juniper pinching
Summertime and pinching continue. Scissors are busy trimming new growth. It is important though how it is done, and not the least when it is done. The weekly episode on Kisetsu-en Bonsai Online is ready to watch, and deal with a lot of strategies necessary…
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Small flowers, great joy
Sometimes the smallest things bring the greatest joy. Shohin Deutzia gracilis, or this small flowering grass below, is for the bonsai display or just to enjoy. A summer flowering Shitakusa, Needletip Blue-Eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium mucronatum. Sometimes bonsai is about spectacular huge trees, and at other…
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Timing your bonsai actions
Summer is creeping up on us. But spring busy days still demands full attention on all new growth. Timing your bonsai actions is essential, and there are no fixed recipes telling exactly when to do what. Not at a time scale anyway. It’s much about…
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Kisetsu-en Bonsai Online
We are relaunching the Bonsai Online streaming service soon. There clearly is a need for bonsai online instructions these days. We expand the tutorials with a wider range of bonsai covered, so both medium-large to small shohin are subjects for seasonal care, styling, and techniques.…
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Grab a cap and maple leaves
Grab a cap, cup or t-shirt, and support our activities. New designs are updated in the shop. For two more days the standard delivery is free. Just activate the redeem button at the top of the shop page. I am glad to see the logo…
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Flowers and grasses in the bonsai garden
In my garden, I grow a small variety of plants as accents for my bonsai or just to stand alone. Accents can be everything with flowers or non-flowering species like grasses. Accents for bonsai or stand-alone The purpose of growing small plants for bonsai is…
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Shinrin-yoku forest bathing
Scientific studies have proved an increased blood flow in certain parts of the brain, stimulated by being in peace in a forest. Compared with being in a city. In Japan Shinrin-yoku, forest bathing has been practiced in hundreds of years. It was though as late…
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The Facebook LIVE Bonsai demo at home
Here you can watch the Bonsai at Home demo, arranged by the Black Scissors. And now corrected so it is shown in the right position. Not as I foolishly did first 😀 [arve url=”https://youtu.be/iv3Lq85Abl8″ align=”center” /] Also, notice I will be back with LIVE Q&A…
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Bonsai live and a bonsai forest
Because of the difficult times, a group of Black Scissors bonsai artists go together and send live on Facebook. If I can manage it, it will also be shared on YouTube afterward. Going live to bring us together when we are apart. The event will…
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Black Scissors online demo April 19
On April 19 I will take part in the worldwide online bonsai event arranged by the Black Scissors Bonsai movement. Considering the present condition of COVID-19 which encouraging people to stay home and work at home, we have planned a live bonsai demo around the…
