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The bonsai Bowler Hat syndrome
The last week of spring comes closer. The Azaleas show all their beauty from now on. Both in the Kisetsu-en garden and as bonsai. After that comes summer and the green season. Repotting is over and the focus is on the scissors. Trimming foliage and…
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Spring growth
With a much warmer and very dry spring, it seems like the bonsai are growing stronger this season. Soon it will be time to cut back that overgrown Beatles hair. It’s important though to let the growth extend freely at the deciduous bonsai to strengthen…
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Hoar frost in the bonsai garden
Hoar frost visiting the Kisetsu-en bonsai garden this morning. Kisetsu-en means “The Garden of the changing seasons” and it certainly proves the name is right. Beautiful patterns are drawn and reveal the tracks of spiders from one branch to another. In a few hours, it…
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Here comes the sun
With The Beatle’s old song (for those of us who are old enough to remember that) “Here comes the sun” in mind, it is a welcome to spring. After a rainy season, dry and sunny weather announces spring. Flowers of spring is a joy.…
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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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Spring maple leafs
Always a treat to watch the new tender spring maple leafs open. Changing colour from reddish green to clearer green, showing subtle changes almost daily. Timing There can be some days or even weeks between pieces of the same specie starts the seasonal growth. Most…
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Spring break bonsai video
NEW SERIES OF BONSAI VIDEO Buds are bursting like crazy these days. New growth is breaking through and I am crazy busy producing new videos for our members. We will deal with the always popular issue: How do I make a bonsai from raw material?…
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Akadama changes
Weather is different and climate changes. So do my bonsai soil mixtures. There will be a full theme about repotting shohin bonsai in the end of the month, ready for the repotting season. This you can see (if you are a subscribing member) in the…
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15 years with shohin bonsai
This year the Shohin Bonsai Europe website has been online for 15 years. Worth a small celebration I think, and an excellent excuse for a glass of wine on a Sunday evening. In the start the website was made to spread the knowledge of shohin…
