I went to the Annual Spring Show of the Bonsai Society of Australia. There were some decent trees on display (like the Japanese Black Pine o...

At the end of last year, I got a lovely little Pink Serissa ( Serissa foetida ). I was just beginning to consider how to train it as bon...

私は日本芸術品と日本歴史と日本文化好きです。今年は日本語の勉強を始めます。趣味は盆栽ですけど近縁の芸術品好きです。この芸術品は焼き物と日本庭園と水石と日本建築と書道と墨絵と浮世絵です。

It is 08.08.08 and I decided to make an entry just for the hack of it. It is ironic that today I am working on my pollination paper (addres...

While dealing with unsatisfactory bonsai pots I tried to make a tea bowl or chawan . After six weeks and three firings it came out fine. I...

After puting up the shelf I realised that I will run out of shelf space this spring. Today, I added a lower shelf and it should keep me out...

Today I put up a bench for my bonsai plants. Hopefully , this will stop my dog from destroying smaller plants. We shall see!

Last week, after a series of unsuccessful attempts, I got another bonsai pot finished. It is 18 x 13 x 6 cm, made of buff raku trachyte cla...

By now, I lost half of my smaller plants because of my dog Bella. She was so merciless to some of them that I couldn't even find what wa...

A couple of days ago I made a Chinese name seal for myself. It has four characters rendered in Zhou style. First character means "t...

Until now my bonsai trees had no natural enemies that couldn't be dealt with, but last Friday my family has got a new member who happen...

Last weekend, I finally got my first self-made bonsai pot. First picture shows a slab of clay flattened with a rolling pin. I used this sl...

I found that buying commercially made trunk benders is expensive. Here are three examples of trunk bending devices that I made and used late...

I was reading The Taiheiki (a 14 th century chronicle of medieval Japan) and came across a passage talking about bonsai and suiseki in t...

In his dialogue titled ‘The Symposium’ Plato claimed that all trees are imperfect copies of an ideal tree, which exists outside the realm of...

Two months ago, I found this oldish Shore Juniper ( Juniperus conferta ). Two weeks ago, I pruned about 50% of its foliage, while it was...

Had a day off yesterday, which gave me a chance to do some further styling to a coniferous plant similar to Thuja. The image on the left is ...

Today my daughter is sick and I got a day off. While she was having a nap, I got a chance to prune one of my prospective bonsai trees. It...

My son is 11 cm taller than me now. It has been more than a year since I started a regular non-research job in a zoo. I am unhappy with my...

I am savouring the last few weeks of being taller than my son. At the moment he is eleven-and-a-half and about 5 mm shorter than me. It will...

Decided to try this blogging. May be I will like it and contnue posting such entries. It is Easter long weekend, but I'm at uni busting...