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What's New 6 Jun 2008: In Pining Away: Swept Off Its Feet, last month's sad little cover tree gets a trip to the U.S. National Arboretum to see if there's any Beauty in the Beast.
What's Old 22 Mar 2008: An Apprentice in Japan looks out the car window to see plenty of Drive-By Beauty... and in our second installment of House Life?, two big hazards are removed as our homeowner puts First Things First. 11 Feb 2008: An Apprentice in Japan is blinded by the beauty of a Yasuo Mitsuya restyle in Eyeballing a Pine – and in our first installment of House Life?, a home renovator is blinded by the beauty of a house that isn't quite Move-In Ready.
1 Jan 2008: Before heading off to Meifuten (Nagoya's winter bonsai show), an Apprentice in Japan becomes The Babe Ruth of Bonsai... and our latest Profile in Bonsai examines John Naka's first tree and his final gift: a Memorable Montezuma. And because home renovation has taken over my life for the past year, a new, bonsai-free feature – House Life? – will take up a portion of my website this year.
29 Jul 2007: John Naka tells a tale of two fronts on a spectacular silverberry – his Elegant Eleagnus – in our latest Profile in Bonsai.
22 Apr 2007: In Octopus to Bonsai (our newest installment of Bush to Bonsai), an octopus is taught to float when a prostrata juniper is transformed into a raft.
11 Jan 2007: An Apprentice in Japan gets A Taste of Toyohashi and learns how delicious bonsai food isn't as well as how spectacular a show tree can be.
30 Oct 2006: John Naka transforms Blue Atlas nursery stock into a “big bird” named Gimpo in our latest Profile in Bonsai. In Unruly Juniper: Leaning and Leaner, thinning and jinning yields a winning windswept which brings out the Beauty in the Beast.
13 Aug 2006: John Naka's design sketch for one of his pomegranates provides the blueprint for a Vision Realized, our latest Profile in Bonsai. In Procumbens Nana: Different Direction Down Under, we journey to Australia to find Beauty in the Beast. An Apprentice in Japan discovers that in the August heat, trees and apprentices alike must be properly watered in See You Later, Irrigator. Upgrades: Three sections – Art, Bonsai, and John Naka, Black Pine: Go with the Flow, and Buxus to Bonsai – have been reformatted to better fit smaller screen resolutions; you should no longer need to scroll your browser to read all the text. New photos: Buxus to Bonsai now ends with not just one, but two new photos of the restyled Kingsville boxwood grove.
More new photos: Kimura and Naka in Art, Bonsai, and John Naka; the daily laundry in Heaven in Hamamatsu; a Pachinko parlor at night in The Kokufu Gamble. 10 Jul 2006: We inaugurate our new Beauty in the Beast section with a rerouting of a wayward cascade in Black Pine: Go with the Flow. Our Kingsville boxwood gets propagated and de-potted as our photo essay concludes with part four of Buxus to Bonsai. We follow the ups and downs of another of John Naka's trees, The Mighty Oak, in our latest Profile in Bonsai. Last but not least, we salute John's many talents in a special remembrance: Art, Bonsai, and John Naka. 17 Apr 2006: We style branches and repot our Kingsville boxwood in part three of Buxus to Bonsai. 6 Mar 2006: An Apprentice in Japan finds Heaven in Hamamatsu and discovers there's more to an apprenticeship than bonsai; there's also sukiyaki and suiseki. In our Bush to Bonsai section, part two of our four-part photo essay Buxus to Bonsai offers style choices and trims the branches of our Kingsville boxwood. Our newest Profile in Bonsai is also a profile in crime as John Naka spits, steals, and styles a masterpiece in The Purloined Pomegranate. 13 Feb 2006: Jack Billet: In Memoriam Cultivated Crabapple, a new Profile in Bonsai, takes a look at William N. Valavanis's contribution to the John Y. Naka North American Pavilion of Bonsai. The Kokufu Gamble, another tale of my Apprenticeship in Japan, finds us in Tokyo for the most prestigious bonsai show of the year. Buxus to Bonsai kicks off our new Bush to Bonsai section with part one of a four-part photo essay on the styling and care of Kingsville boxwood (Buxus Microphylla Compacta). 1 Jan 2006: Happy New Year and happy new site! Pretty much everything is new, so head straight over to the Contents page and jump right in! |