-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Buy a book – this one
Don’t know what to do during quarantine? Read a book. It might as well be this one 🙂 “Shohin – Through the seasons” is written with the aim of guiding bonsai enthusiasts through the seasonal changes and applying the right techniques at the right time. The…
-
Forsythia spring flowers
One of my medium-sized new trees is a Forsythia showing the nice yellow flowers right now. It is a new tree in my collection, found in my garden two years ago. A simple forest clump style bonsai made from a bush growing in the front…
-
Enjoy bonsai and take care of each other
In these serious times, we have to take care of each other. Staying safe and sound. This means we have to reduce public activities and being together at a distance. To avoid the rapid spreading of the Coronavirus. We can still enjoy and share the…
-
Spring opening of the official Kisetsu-en webshop
Spring opening of our new webshop with cool bonsai accessories. The Kisetsu-en logo is on every item. Getting ready for the growing season with the right coffee mug and t-shirt. We often get questions about the t-shirts with our logo. Now we have made them…
-
Trophy and book release
What a smashing good weekend it was at the Trophy this past weekend. The new book Shohin – through the Seasons released and very well received. Thanks for all your positive comments. Online and in real life 🙂 Grateful to receive all your friendly words…
