Pot Choice Exercise: Highbush Blueberry
Growing up in Upstate NY there were a lot of lovely highbush blueberries growing wild in the woods, and I’d always wanted to try one as a bonsai. Took a move to the West Coast—where they only exist in nurseries—to finally get around to it. Highbush blueberries, Vaccinium corymbosum, have great erratic, natural branch lines […]
Studying Keido at Cascadia Bonsai-
Normal days in the bonsai garden involve a lot of time watering, worrying, and brushing spider webs off our bonsai. Taking a break from that to bring the bonsai inside for some display is refreshing, and brings a more relaxing dimension to this art. Spiders might join the event. The room where we had a […]
Beautiful Henk Fresen Bronzes for Bonsai Display
Bobby Curttright brought by the studio a recent shipment of Henk Fresen’s wonderful bronze miniatures, and we enjoyed dreaming up what we might display with them. These are exemplary works for innovative bonsai display, such as you might see at the Taikan Ten, and of comparable quality to the bronzes that Matt Reel and I […]
