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New video: Join Eric in our latest video as he delves into the art of pushing budding and enhancing ramification on larger trees. Discover the precise techniques and insider tips that will elevate your bonsai journey to new heights. Click here for the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVQ1dAIcHxA

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Bonsaify | The Ramifications of Elm Bonsai Ramification Eric shares his work on two of his older Chinese Elms, focusing on ramification and spring cutback and thinning.00:00:20 Tree 1: Between last summer's work a...

Bonsaify | Learn to PREDICT How Your BONSAI will DEVELOP! Revisiting a Chinese Cork Bark Elm he worked on in a recent video (https://youtu.be/sQd0fFja6T8), Eric demonstrates how to predict growth patterns so you can...

Bonsaify | This IS the KEY to Redwood Bonsai! In this video Eric shares how he gets dense growth on Sequoia sempervirens - the California Coast Redwood. It's a great species for bonsai. Learn what pinch...

New video: Transform your Mass Market Ficus in a Bonsai Masterpiece!
https://youtu.be/Ry4QqT5HiQk

Eric continues his journey with a Golden Gate ficus that he got from a mass-market retailer. There's nothing fundamentally "wrong" with a mass market Ficus like this. The goal of this video series is to follow the tree through a few years of development work to make it into a tree that conforms more to Japanese shohin rules.

New video: Eric shares tips and advice on making Bunjin pines, using 6 three-year-old pines he started from seed. It's amazing how fun it can be to style bonsai trees!

https://youtu.be/ahzW4ndfzsk

New video: When to Pinch Japanese Maples and When to Let 'em Run! To pinch or not to pinch, that is the question - for Japanese Maples - and Eric is here to provide the answer! He uses two trees in different stages of development as examples. Head over to YT and give it a watch! https://youtu.be/xD8FEXK3Sdw

New video from Eric Schrader!

New video: For an Elegant Elm Bonsai, You Must Do This! Eric walks through middle development steps with a root-over-rock Chinese Cork Bark Elm. "Intermediate steps are really important for creating a quality composition." Watch now - https://youtu.be/sQd0fFja6T8

If you want to create a similar composition, we now have starters available for purchase (U.S. only): https://www.bonsaify.com/products/chinese-corkbark-elm-bonsai-starters.

Bonsaify | The One Mistake All Bonsai Beginners Make: Here's How to Avoid It! Eric shares the one thing beginners get wrong when styling commercial nursery junipers, and provides detailed guidance on how to avoid it and keep on the pat...

Bonsaify | Making Mame Magic: Juniper Cascades Eric uses a little magic to pot and style four Kishu Junipers, removing them from 2 inch growing containers and potting them into very, very small pots from ...

It's just another Mame Monday [video]! Mame means "bean" or mini-bonsai in Japanese. In this video, Eric shares his techniques to be successful in growing mame bonsai. Over 100,000 people have learned about Mame from watching this video!

https://youtu.be/QxHEHi4nt5w

What experiences have you had growing mame "bean" bonsai?

New year, new video: Willow Leaf Ficus WOW!

Welcome to the wonderful world of Willow Leaf Ficus (Ficus Nerifolia) bonsai! Eric shares what he finds so exciting about working with this tropical species. If you're interested in learning how to create a small Willow Leaf Ficus (WLF) tree with amazing nebari, this video is for you!

https://youtu.be/znsdvYMzHTk

New video: Developing Root-Over-Rock Japanese Black Pine Bonsai! This video picks up where our Christmas Day video, "Japanese Black Pine Root-Over-Rock Creation" ended: after creating a root-over-rock bonsai composition, what comes next? Eric demonstrates the next steps on a pine nearing the end of its third year of growth, 1 year after potting.

https://youtu.be/QcFd0Qziu6Q

Bonsaify | Japanese Black Pine Root-Over-Rock Creation Root-over-Rock bonsai mimic trees growing in rocky environments where over the years the topsoil has eroded away. These compositions have roots visibly cling...

Watch Eric’s retrospective on his special exhibit for the recent Pacific Bonsai Expo!

Bonsaify | How Big Was John Naka's Bird? - A 2022 Pacific Bonsai Expo Retrospective. John Yoshio Naka’s seminal work, “Bonsai Techniques“ exposes bonsai students to the writings, drawings and personality of one of California’s most-renowned b...

Bonsaify | Early Development Work on Exposed Root and Root Over Rock Pine Bonsai! Eric has a little unwrapping fun (a bit like Christmas in September!) as he works on 5 Japanese Black Pines that he last checked in on last winter. This vide...

Why should you volunteer at the Expo? In addition to contributing to the inaugural Pacific Bonsai Expo, volunteers working a four-hour shift on Thursday or Friday will receive free admission Saturday or Sunday. Volunteers working a four-hour shift on Saturday or Sunday will receive free admission to the event on the day that they work. We still have volunteer slots available, so sign up today!

https://www.pacificbonsaiexpo.com/pages/volunteers

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New video: Eric compares the health and growth of two Junipers he acquired at the same time but chose to develop differently. One of these trees came from Jim Gremel of Deer Meadow Bonsai. Eric demonstrates fiber-pulling to create shari (deadwood) and makes a pitch for design before repotting. Watch the video to learn why!

Bonsaify | Repot or Not? Midseason Health Check on 3 Older Bonsai Eric recently acquired three trees that have a common problem: they're root-bound. It's early September in Northern California, so not a good time to do a fu...

Bonsaify | Mini Pine Late Summer Makeover! Find out why Eric has chosen early September to clean-up his nearly three-year-old mini Japanese Black Pines instead of waiting a few months, and the steps h...

Bonsaify | How to Make a Great Cork Oak Bonsai! Eric shares tips for early development steps on two year old cork oak seedlings. His stock was started from acorns collected in Davis, CA. They were germinat...

Bonsaify | Three-Year old Kishu Junipers In this video Eric shares how to further work on young junipers that are in their third growing season. If you haven't already, check out this video first wh...

Growing Bonsai Trees: How Big Do They Get? Have you ever wondered