Continue reading Developing Yaupon holly bonsai – a tale of when not to cut

Originally posted on Adam's Art and Bonsai Blog:
This’ll be a quick look at a client’s buttonwood and how I try to match new carving to old deadwood. Not easy but you can get close.? Here’s the buttonwood, ready for work.? It’s a little green, I know. The deadwood, I mean. The leaves should?be green. Unless it’s a silver buttonwood. Then the leaves are… Continue reading Refinement carving on a buttonwood 

Originally posted on Adam's Art and Bonsai Blog:
It’s a battle royale! We have two trees that have been at war for some time now (well, since?this post, really, ?which was an update to?this post, actually, which goes back three years and is one of my most popular posts on air layering).? Two ficus microcarpa. What some people call tiger bark ficus or erroneously,… Continue reading Ficus vs. ficus

Originally posted on Rustedrootbonsai:
This is my holm oak that i am bringing to a workshop for a bit of a styling.i love the general shape of the tree and the bark is pretty good. I will post pics of tree when we are finished,fingers crossed. Continue reading Workshop tree

Originally posted on Nebari Bonsai:
In February 2014, I approach-grafted an Itoigawa juniper cutting to this collected Rocky Mountain Juniper. It wasn’t a great graft, and I left it in place for 27 months to know it took. Over the last year, I weakened the scion between the graft union and the elevated pot, to force the scion to rely on the new host. In… Continue reading Separation Anxiety!

Originally posted on BONSAI WALES:
Posted to Woodandclay?Facebook page the following: A Gold Mesal for Chris Thomas and the Dragon Bonsai crew at the Royal Welsh show. The photos do not do this stunning display justice. I think the black and white images of the welsh landscape compliment the trees perfectly. Continue reading Welsh Gold