Originally posted on Adam's Art and Bonsai Blog:
I don’t generally like to push things upon my readers (except for my arrogant prose and my questionable bonsai stylings, I guess…) but I recently got an email from a well known, professional photographer heaping praise upon me and my blogs content (ok, it was more like him saying he enjoyed the way I showed step… Continue reading Please give support for a new bonsai art book that is in production

Originally posted on Adam's Art and Bonsai Blog:
Here’s a short post that might help you out, but is really just to make myself look more awesome. Because I am you know, just ask anyone. Unless your name is Mike. For some reason, all my life anyone named Mike just couldn’t appreciate my magnificence. Or they did in the beginning, but something happened that… Continue reading A broken bonsai tool

Originally posted on Adam's Art and Bonsai Blog:
?? A bucket of podocarpus trimmings. If it could be smoked, I’d move to Colorado and make more money selling it than I’d ever make doing bonsai. Or not. Maybe. ?I know of at least ?two bonsai professionals just waiting for legalization in their respective states to begin another horticultural enterprise. Let me show you what… Continue reading Podocarpus? Podo-crazy!

Continue reading Highlights from the Green Club – Japanese beech

Originally posted on Bonsai Eejit:
Here’s a link to a fantastic article on Craftmanship.net about Ryan Neil and his journey towards this weekend’s Artisan Cup in Portland. I’ve read a lot about Ryan in the past and some of that’s in here too but in a very open interview you can see just how much he’s put on the line for bonsai in America. I’ve… Continue reading The Bonsai Kid

Continue reading Highlights from the Green Club – black pine

Originally posted on Scratch Bonsai:
I’ve been reviewing the blog lately and thinking about the progress of my trees and material in the past year.  An ideal scenario would be that everything is a year better in development but unfortunately that’s not the case.  It’s the Belfast City Autumn Show this weekend and I remember thinking last year that I would like to have a… Continue reading Another Year On…

Originally posted on Robert Nocher Shohin Bonsai:
Over our last 2 “get together” sessions, Gerry and I have been busy styling his tall scots pine. This cultivar of pinus sylvestris, which I think is either beuvronensis or watereri has a good nebari, excellent movement in the trunk and a good dark green foliage colour. The trunk is relatively thin for its height. Last year Gerry took this tree… Continue reading Tall Scots Pine 2nd Styling