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The spirit of teaching bonsai
Also send out as newsletter. I think my appreciation and dedication to teaching bonsai started many years ago. As I for the first time was asked to demonstrate in public and make a workshop. Since then I have found immense joy in bringing on my…
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Online bonsai beginner experiences
The other day at an exhibition I heard one of my local students talk about the online learning experience. Not a young man as you might expect, but a retired man now putting all his energy and love into bonsai. What he told another guest…
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Live bonsai Q&A coming up
Q&A is a cornerstone at Kisetsu-en. Questions are asked and answered daily about all kinds of bonsai subjects. If you also want to join in at our live Q&A at the Zoom platform you can easily do that. You will feel the Kisetsu-en friendly spirit…
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Bonsai seasons
New bonsai tutorials are to be released on September 1st. As always a lot of thoughts, work and cutting (both trees and video) is put into this. I hope you will enjoy it on this first day of autumn if we follow the calendar. What…
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Mame bonsai experience
The smallest bonsai are often the easiest to handle when it comes to cutting and pinching. A bit more demanding when we talk caretaking. In a few minutes, you can prune such a small tree. You can hold it in your hand and turn it…
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Tutorials cooking with Shohin and Mame bonsai
The laptop is hot. Cooking the 5 X new video tutorials for the Kisetsu-en Bonsai Online Magazine coming out August 1. We are not sleeping our holidays away here at Kisetsu-en. Well, we try to get some days off, but delivery must be on time.…
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Bonsai species of the month
At Kisetsu-en Bonsai Online I every month present a new species of the month. This month it is one of my favourites. The Shrubby honeysuckle, or Lonicera nitida. This tree was, as many others, created from a raw and simple plant collected some years ago.…
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Thanks to the UK Bonsai Association
An online group of 60+ members tuned in yesterday evening to hear me ramble about Shohin bonsai. A great pleasure and even though we had two full hours I didn’t manage to say everything I wanted. Shohin bonsai is so interesting and there is a…
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Your vote for the best time to air Live Q&A
We are a good blend of European and overseas members here at Kisetsu-en. Figuring out the best time for the monthly Live Q&A with Zoom is therefore a bit of a puzzle. Here you come in. I have set up a simple poll to get…
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Bonsai forest caught on video
April is a month of unpredictable weather. We never know how it goes. The only thing that is certain is that the temperatures go up and down, and I have to take care of the sudden night freezing that might occur as late as May…
