Finalmente sono riuscito a fare visita a due amici che anche loro hanno fatto il percorso di studi alla scuola d’arte bonsai nella mia stessa classe. Giardino di Dario Giardino di Giovanni

10/01/2015 Saturday at 10 am to 5 pm

we will having our first workshop in 2015 as usually with ours best friends Ian and Phil both from Northern Ireland Bonsai Society.

trees critique

Trees styling

Selling area

All are very welcome. For more details please contact Piotr at twinsrat.bonsai@gmail.com or 0867705560

Just a couple videos I picked up from Hidemi Kataoka’s Facebook page. Hopefully I’ve gotten this to at least a couple of you before you saw it yourself. You can follow his Tokoname page here.

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This antique tree was collected some years ago by Anton Nijhuis of Vancouver Island, Canada, and was recently brought to Oregon, USA. We reworked it here last week for a client. The dynamism of the low descending branch and its bumping movement definitely made for a fun styling. We couldn’t wait to finish it!

Curiously, the entire tree is a rooted branch. It has somewhat larger needles than most Mountain Hemlocks have, and Anton said that it seemed like a strain of hemlock localized to that one mountain, and he’d not seen it elsewhere.

Here’s a photo essay of our restyling. Enjoy!

This was the Mountain Hemlock before we did anything.

…after shortening a few jins and tipping the tree to our new inclination, and finding our front. Like so many front choices, it was a balancing of goods and bads…

Bobby refining a jin.

…wiring from the bottom up…

I have been specialising in shohin sized trees for about 3 years now. In that time, I have put together a collection of about 50 shohin sized trees. Despite having that number to choose from, finding 5 that work together and are sufficiently well developed and presented to be considered show worthy, is proving to be quite a challenge.

This is the best that I can come up with at the moment

When I think about trees that work together in a display, I am thinking about the relative proportions of each tree in the group. I want trees that are all approximately the same size. If you have 1 or 2 trees that are a little larger than the others in the group, the eye is immediately drawn to that.

Take a look at this next picture, which was taken in February of this year.

The cork barked elm…