My Bonsai New Year Resolution

My New Year Bonsai Resolution:

# 1 - Don't cut & and than style the Tree. First Style the tree - design it on paper, sleep over it - and than cut is required the next day. The more day you can spend thinking about it, better.

# 2 - Style you plant in Big Pot, and only when the same is ready to be exhibited, repot & shift it to a smaller Tray. Remember, Bigger the pot, better the result.

# 3 - Nourish, Fertilize, Feed & Pesticide the plant on regular basis. Remember the plant can survive on nothing, but than what you will get in return is nothing.

# 4 - Have patience, the rome was not built in a Day. When you cut/wire the plant, pledge not to disturb the plant for next 3 months minimum after operation. Don't expect miracle.

# 5 - Take opinion of others, it matter for they are going to judge the plant, as you judge other plants.

# 6 - Go Local. Try all Local varieties of plant for Bonsai. No more Jade, Ficus varieties. Pledge.

# 7 - Do not invest in Pot before the plant is 3 years old. Invest in a Good plant instead. Remember, the value of plant will grow manifolds year after year, the value of pot will only diminish.

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The black book of Bonsai

# http://bonsaitonight.com/ - I found this website quite interesting & simple. Check it out.

# Here is an website, that has collection of good articles on Bonsai by world best masters. Have a look at it & comment. http://www.evergreengardenworks.com/articles.htm. I am yet to go through them but I am told that they are really really good bonsai articles.

Ramesh

US National Bonsai Museum

Dear Friends

I came across this links which shows in details United States, National Bonsai Museum. Check it out. Here is where you will find GOSHIN, a master piece created by Sir John Naka.

http://www.usna.usda.gov/Gardens/collections/VirtualTours/BonsaiVirtualTour_01.html#Slide

Click here to see museum's the Japanese Collection

http://www.bonsai-nbf.org/site/japanese.html

To view museum's the Japanese Bonsai Collection click below

http://www.bonsai-nbf.org/site/chinese.html

To view museum's North America's collection click below

http://www.bonsai-nbf.org/site/north_american.html

Some of the museum's beautiful suiseki - stones can be seen on this link (My favorite)

http://www.bonsai-nbf.org/site/viewing_stones.html

Here is something I liked. This is a must see. (Chinese Rock Penjing)

http://www.absbonsai.org/gallery/ABS2008/rock/rock-1.html

Let us come together to come up with something similar in India. To start with I expect someone from Delhi Bonsai Club to take pic of National Bonsai Museum located at Lodhi Garden, Delhi & upload, if the same is allowed.

Ramesh Sinha

Ahmedabad Bonsai Club, India.

World Bonsai Friendship Federation - 2009 Bonsai Photo Contest

Here are some Bonsai worth dieing for. I am totally amazed. Truly inspirational. I am sure all of you will love it. It took probably decades to make them, and hence it takes some time to load because of high quality of Bonsai pics, but be patient, it worth it.

Click below to see world's best - top 20 Bonsai ( 2009 photo contest).

http://www.bonsai-wbff.org/octoberbonsai/honorable_pics.html

To view top 5 collection click

http://www.bonsai-wbff.org/octoberbonsai/runners.html

To view the 2009 Grand Winner click

http://www.bonsai-wbff.org/octoberbonsai/firstplace.html

Ramesh Sinha

Ahmedabad Bonsai Club

Styling Cherry Bonsai

A friend of mine recently shared his couple of years old cherry bonsai & requested me to style it for me. Find below the original tree & the 3 options i have suggested him. Pl. share with me your styles or opinion if possible. Please add your email id when you add a comment.

Original Plant:

Option 1: Wind Swept Style suggested by me for his cherry Bonsai

Option 2: Jinning suggested for his cherry Bonsai

Style suggested by Kapilas creation.

Ramesh Sinha

Ahmedabad Bonsai Club, India

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Ryan Photoseries

Rayan, as on July 2010
Under training for last 2 years. Originally i wanted to style it in umbrellas style, which is visible in last year photo below, but than later I changed my mind & made it informal upright. Rayan is also know as Khirni & is a very slow growing tree that can leaves for couple of decades.

Rayan, as of August 2009

Nebari close up,

Post pruning in Dec 2008, a year back

Pic as on March 2008.

Jade Twin Trunk Style Bonsai

When I bought this plant, I was sort of confused as how to style it. It had two trunks, one that was leaning extremely left & other one was informally straight. I sort of liked it unique style and didn't wanted to disturb it so wired the plant without disbursing its original style. Later, after 2 months, i moved it to a blue tray, post which I required it again. Progression series spread over period of 6 months is shown below. Hope you like it.

Jade Twin Trunk as on August 2009 post rewiring: (LATEST IMAGE)

The picture angle is not correct & hence true beauty of this plant is not revelled. Guess I need to pick up basic photography crash course.

Jade Twin Trunk Front Side as on August 2009, before wiring.

This is how the plant looked before wiring. The branches were allowed to grow wild, when I had shifted it to this blue-brown tray. Only one wire was retained that ran through the left trunk.

Jade Twin Trunk Back Side as on August 09

Seen above is the back side of the tree. As you can see, there are no branches which Post rewiring, 3 branches have been moved to back side to fill the vacuum.

Jade Wiring post wiring, as on March 2009

This is how I first wired it. I initially thought of developing one crown on the left branch, which now has 3 crowns under training. The branch on the left trunk that was moving backward has been moved to front side.

The first branch on left trunk that was going back, has been bought to the right side. Another branch has been positioned on the left side of left trunk to balance the first right branch. To branches has been pushed back & crown slightly trimmed.