Category: American bonsai
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The Coast Live Oak: Inspiration for Bonsai Design
The Coast Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia) thrives along the Pacific Coast, typically within 50 miles of the shoreline. It’s an evergreen with a rounded canopy and thick trunk. Notably, coastal live oaks are showcased in bonsai exhibitions, reflecting their intricate natural form and unique aesthetic inspired by their native habitat…
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Repotting Season – Bonsai as an Aesthetic Practice
It is this cycle, this rhythm of stress and then recovery and the tree’s “memory” of these events, as embodied by its form, that leads to the creation of great, old bonsai… Walter Scott The changing of the seasons signals to bonsai practitioners that it is time to perform a…
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Appreciating Bonsai as Aesthetic Objects
Bonsai are complex aesthetic objects, how do we appreciate them?
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American Bonsai or Bonsai in America?
What is “American Bonsai” and how should the ABS define “Native” in the context of American Bonsai as an art form?” – Susan Daufeldt, ABS Newsletter editor.