From the bench
What is being styled, repotted, shown and learned — in the order it happened.
Reflections on the MBSS Exhibition & Workshops – A Public Visitor’s Perspective I eventually attended the event as an MBSS Public Visitor. I had originally planned to enter one of…
20 July 2026
The Senjumaru black pine took Bronze and the Itoigawa shimpaku took a Consolation Prize in the Small Bonsai Category. Notes on what the judges rewarded, and what they did not.
12 July 2026
The tree the practice is known for, and the slow argument between a live vein and a carving tool.
28 June 2026
Everyone wants a flowering bonsai. Almost nobody wants to stop watering it, which is the actual requirement.
