A few Old Bonsai Pots for SALE

We have just added a few bonsai pots for sale on the website.
These pots are old.!! I purchased them many decades ago from the Koreshoff Nursery in Castle Hill.

Softer Styling for this old White Pine

Resukyū (レスキュー) Japanese white pine restyled to a softer look this season.

In contrast to the last article on a grafted White Pine this old pine is on it's own stock and, as such, grows much slower.  The advantage is that it produced much smaller needle clusters and there are no graft faults to deal with.

This grafted Japanese White Pine was field grown, from commercial nursery stock, at The Australian Bonsai Gallery for about 6 years before being lifted to a training pot in August 2019.

The Black Pine stock had developed significantly while in the field and will require some carving to better blend the graft union.

Carving will be done in Winter to avoid significant sap loss.

Japanese White Pine from August 2019 to Febuary 2025

 Old Koreshoff Ficus

Today I had the pleasure of working on an old Koreshoff Morton Bay Fig for a client.

The old tag stated that it was from 1976; it looked every bit as old and more.  The image here does not do it justice.  This bonsai show it's age in the very 'gnarly' old bark and truly gives you that 'Wabi-Sabi' feeling.!!

 Where are these Bonsai Now - 2025

My first news article for 2025 so..... Happy New Year.!!!

I have been going through some old Bonsai Australia magazines - The, then, "Official Journal of the Bonsai Society of Australia". These old magazines had some really useful information.! 

The following articles feature bonsai by Max Candy and a detailed demonstration by Mr. Nakajima & Mr. Komatsu in 1985.

The history of bonsai in Australia is being lost so if you recognize these trees I am sure that the bonsai community would like to see some recent images.!!  Please, if you have any information, I would like to publish and share.

 Last Years Second Flush becomes this Years First Flush

 Confused.??  So was I until I realized that if you remove the first flush so late that the attempted second flush results in only bud formation that:

• you can skip one years growth, and
• the following years first flush is actually last years second flush..... shorter branching and smaller needles.!!!!!!!!

 Still confused.??..... So was I, STILL, so some years ago I started experimenting with this idea of a late first flush cut on my old Black Pines ( every second year) and realized that:

• I could maintain the current design longer by effectively skipping a years growth, and
• only have to deal with a single growth flush the following year.!!!

The bonsai in the following image is a great example of this technique.  What you are looking at is 'last years second flush buds opening as this years first flush needles'.  

It should be noted that this technique, logically, can only be applied every second year.

 The importance of Summer Pruning of Bonsai

 There are many reasons to prune most deciduous bonsai in Summer.

Firstly, a heavy pruning in summer reduces the 'transpiration load' on most broadleaf deciduous bonsai.  This reduces water stress.

The resultant 'Summer flush' of this pruning is Important to the design and development of deciduous bonsai.  If you get the timing right this late flush can produce smaller leaves and finer branching; increasing branch ramification. 

Christmas Gift 

This Japanese white pine has been discounted for a quick Christmas sale. For more info on this bonsai click HERE.

 Azalea alba magnifica 2020-2024

Bit of an update on this very old Azalea.  A Summer prune and the application of Lime Sulphur to preserve the dead wood.

It is developing well, so far.  Next season it will be repotted and further refined.

We are more than happy with it's current pot; a high quality Zheng-liang pot.

White Pine For Sale

This large White Pine is For Sale at The Australian Bonsai Gallery.!  

It has settled into it's Japanese, Tokoname, Marushi Shigeharu, Mr SAWADA Shigeharu pot and is punching out some very dense, glaucus blue foliage.