So you want to be a bonsai professional?
I am sure that at some point during a work day our minds have wandered to the trees in our gardens and dreamt that we could leave the mundane job. Be able to work full time with bonsai, to create trees as and when we like, to enjoy the freedom and fulfillment of fashioning a thing of beauty.
More than 20 years ago a couple of Britain’s best known bonsai professionals gave me some advice; I was Managing Director of a successful design company that had been trading for ten years, but my passion was for bonsai. I wanted to work with bonsai full time, to teach, create and travel. I had won the UK Bonsai New Talent competition, I was building a good collection, but I had a young family, a mortgage and commitments.
This story is from the 2017-1 #144 - January / February edition of Bonsai Focus EN.
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BETULA
The challenge to grow bonsai from scratch
Refreshing accents
Summer accent plants that grow near water
Cast in Iron
Saad Khayar's naturalistic and detailed tenpai
BONSAI FROM FRUIT
Propagate by sowing seeds, or taking cuttings to create new bonsai
THE ROUGH DIAMOND
Bjorn Bjorholm works on a juniper with hidden qualities
Little, but wild
Bringing out the best from material with many faults
My victory
The bonsai passion of Alfredo Salaccione
The Azuma pines
Daiki, the third-generation Abe, works on seed-grown pines
No turning back
David Quintana works on a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris)
Kid's play or pot?
A (very) young artist creates unconventional pots that are seriously cool
