Bonsai care guides for every species and skill level: watering, soil, light, fertilizing, and seasonal care from Kenji Nakamura.
The Fukien tea bonsai (Carmona retusa) is one of the most beautiful and most demanding indoor bonsai species. Learn exactly how to care for it with this complete guide covering light, humidity, watering, soil, and troubleshooting.
Learn when and how to repot a bonsai with expert timing, tools, and root pruning techniques. Step-by-step guide from a 20-year bonsai practitioner.
Bonsai losing leaves? Kenji, 15-year bonsai artist, identifies the 7 most common causes — from overwatering to pests — and the exact fix for each.
Of all the aspects of bonsai care, fertilization is the one I see misunderstood most consistently — even by practitioners who have been growing trees for several years. Some fertilize too much,…
There is a moment, just before the first cut, when everything becomes still. I have been practicing bonsai for twenty years, and I still feel it — that quiet before the shears meet the branch….
Every spring, my courtyard fills with the quiet ritual of assessment. I walk slowly past the benches — junipers silvered with morning dew, a Chinese elm leafing out in tender green, a flowering…
Of all the trees I have worked with across two decades of bonsai practice, the juniper holds a particular place. It was my first tree. A small, unassuming specimen purchased from a roadside market,…
There is a moment — and if you have held a bonsai in your hands, you may already know it — when time slows. The tree before you has endured seasons, adapted to the patient discipline of its keeper,…