How to Master Grafting Strategies on a Juniper Bonsai Bonsai Mirai 2023-06-07 | Grafting is a transformative technique that empowers us to control foliage placement on our trees, shape their behavior, and unlock their true bonsai potential. By grafting onto a renowned California juniper previously owned by Harry Hirao, we pay homage to its legacy while addressing its challenges. This iconic tree's growth has been hindered by stubborn foliage and limited ability to thrive post-wiring. This process ensures that Harry's vision lives on through new methods and a fresh aesthetic. Join us on this journey of growth and skill-building as we create a bonsai masterpiece.
Juniper grafting. #shorts Bonsai Mirai 2023-06-01 | Interested in learning more? Start your journey today with a free 7-day trial of Mirai Live.#bonsai #bonsaitree #bonsaiwork #treework #bonsaiartist #grafting #juniper
Summer shade. #shorts Bonsai Mirai 2023-05-25 | Installing the new garden structure shade cloth—just in time to protect our bonsai collection from the summer sun.#bonsaigarden #summer #bonsai #trees #architecture #shades
Relax into the redwood forest. #shorts Bonsai Mirai 2023-05-18 | #bonsai #bonsaitree #bonsaiartist #bonsaigarden
Spring Watering for Healthy Bonsai Trees Bonsai Mirai 2023-05-17 | Delve deep into the intricacies of spring watering as we highlight the crucial aspects to pay attention to, potential pitfalls to avoid, and the underlying principles governing water flow. Our discussion will demonstrate an advanced method for watering conifer and deciduous trees, incorporating all the knowledge gained. Join us as we explore the nuances of bonsai spring watering and its application to achieve optimal tree health and growth.
Rocky landscapes, soft surroundings. #shorts Bonsai Mirai 2023-05-11 | #nature #naturephotography #naturelovers #springblooms #landscape #superblooms #flora #cinematic #discoverearth #travelling #dronephotography #rockymountains #colorado
Drawn to the timeless allure of ancient landscapes, finding inspiration at every turn. #shorts Bonsai Mirai 2023-05-10 | #nature #naturephotography #naturelovers #cinematic #discoverearth #travelling #dronephotography #rockymountains #colorado
Mastering Satsuki Azalea Bonsai Form: Pruning and Wiring Techniques Bonsai Mirai 2023-05-03 | Looking to learn about Satsuki azaleas and how to maximize their aesthetic quality beyond just their flowering cycle? In this informative stream, we dive into the often-overlooked topic of design and pruning techniques for Satsuki azaleas during non-flowering seasons. You'll discover the nuanced repotting needs and behavior of these stunning trees, and learn how to use wiring practices to shape and elevate them as bonsai subjects. With our expert guidance, you'll build your skills and take your Satsuki azalea gardening to the next level.
Greenhouse evolution. #shorts Bonsai Mirai 2023-04-27 | Get inspired by our 12-year journey of creating a functional and beautiful space that maximizes growing seasons and customizes care for our beloved bonsai trees. #bonsai #bonsaigarden #bonsaitree #greenhouse #greenhousegoals #horticulture #plants #architecture
Form and function, fused to perfection. #shorts Bonsai Mirai 2023-04-20 | #bonsai #bonsaiartist #bonsaitree #bonsai
Maximizing Bonsai Aesthetics with Dynamic Design on an American Plum Tree Bonsai Mirai 2023-04-19 | Learn how to apply dynamic design concepts to bonsai trees for maximum aesthetic impact. In this video, we'll show you how to handle primary design components such as the trunk, defining branch, and apical direction to distribute the tree's physical mass and push the boundaries of aesthetics. Join us as we demonstrate these techniques on an American plum tree, showcasing cutting-edge bonsai design choices that are sure to impress.
Three Stages of Bonsai Development #shorts Bonsai Mirai 2023-04-06 | #bonsai #bonsaitree #bonsaiartist
How to Make a Succulent Kusamono Bonsai Mirai 2023-04-05 | Much like bonsai focuses on the relationship between the tree and the container—kusamono focuses on the relationship between the understory and the container. In this video, we create kusamono compositions pairing succulents with ceramic vessels to play with color, texture, form, scale, and proportional design opportunities. Grow your creative outlook of kusamono plantings, get inspired to create your own, or give the gift of the understory with our kusamono kit available in the Mirai Goods: goods.bonsaimirai.com/collections/kusamono-vessels/products/kusamono-kit
Natural landscapes crafted on stone #shorts Bonsai Mirai 2023-03-30 | #bonsai #bonsaitree #bonsaiartist
Chopsticks: An essential tool for bonsai practitioners #shorts Bonsai Mirai 2023-03-16 | #bonsai #chopsticks #bonsaitree #bonsaiwork #workshop #bonsaitools #gardentools #garden #bonsainursery #treework #bonsaiartist #bonsaipot #repotting #bonsaipractioner
Chopstick Creation Bonsai Mirai 2023-03-15 | Chopsticks are one of the most essential tools during the repotting season. They are simple in look, yet there are a lot of nuances that goes into ensuring that this essential tool lives up to its full potential. Ryan walks us through every step of making your own chopsticks, taking a bamboo round and shaping it into the very tool that you’ve seen in countless streams.Need more support? Check out our Chopstick Creation guide for a more detailed description of each step: bonsaimirai.com/blog/chopstick-creation
Ceramic Creation with Jan Rentenaar #shorts Bonsai Mirai 2023-03-08 | “Sometimes you have to make the ugly pot.” Listen to our latest Asymmetry podcast episode to hear moment insightful wisdom from local Oregon ceramicist—Jan Rentenaar: bonsaimirai.com/blog/asymmetry-podcast
Bonsai Display Fundamentals Bonsai Mirai 2023-03-01 | The display we create to show our bonsai forms a holistic presentation of the creative motivation behind the design ideas used to inspire our trees. We first have to understand how the bonsai display began, how it is executed, and the baseline references that allow us to orient ourselves enough to give us the freedom to explore. In this video, we build your skills on a fundamental display of a tree with a stand, accent, and jita selection, as well as a traditional Japanese three-point display; understand the spacing, the height, and the aesthetic behind the elementary display to give yourself the platform to innovate.
Turning lemons into lemonade: bonsai edition #shorts Bonsai Mirai 2023-02-23 | #bonsai #japan #bonsaitree #bonsaiwork #bonsaiartist #bonsaimaster #plants #bonsailovers
Bonsai Anatomy: Learn the bonsai basics and answers to the question of what is a bonsai? Bonsai Mirai 2023-02-21 | A common vernacular for the anatomy of a bonsai is essential to our understanding of teaching the practice as well as evolving the art form. To clarify and establish a fundamental vocabulary of the bonsai body, we will break down the framework of commonly used words in bonsai practice to open the discussion of the art form to a broader community.
Ponderosa Pine Bonsai Style Collaboration with Masayuki Fujikawa Bonsai Mirai 2023-02-16 | Masayuki Fuijkawa and Ryan Neil share not only their experience at Kimura’s bonsai garden–they share a language based on technique and skill. In this video, witness a historic first: two of Kimura’s apprentices collaborating to bring an incredible design to a superb and rare yamadori ponderosa pine tree; build your design eye and watch two bonsai masters collaborate in a groundbreaking fashion.
3D bonsai ceramic selection #shorts Bonsai Mirai 2023-02-16 | #bonsai #bonsaitree #bonsaiart #3danimation #3dart #ceramics
Second Repotting on a Ponderosa Pine Bonsai Tree Bonsai Mirai 2023-02-01 | A bonsai tree’s second repotting is as pivotal as its first introduction to the containerized environment. In a second repotting on a ponderosa pine tree, we eliminate remaining field soil while leaving the initial root system we’ve created intact; we complete the system of exchange to domesticated soil and achieve a higher balance of water and oxygen. Understand the strategies and techniques behind this crucial step to set your bonsai tree’s root system up for ultimate success in a containerized environment.
Moments of satisfaction. #shorts Bonsai Mirai 2023-01-12 | Repotting season, Mirai greenhouse. #bonsai #bonsaitree #bonsaiart
How to Turn Nursery Stock into a Shohin Bonsai Creation Bonsai Mirai 2023-01-04 | Every holiday at Mirai, we pick out a neglected piece of nursery stock—often a recycled holiday tree or overlooked landscaping materials. This year, we acquired a dilapidated blue rug juniper with tremendous potential for bonsai creation.Build your skills around maximizing the quality of nursery stock, transforming a commonly available material into a spectacular shohin bonsai display.
Somedays at Mirai: Crater Lake Bonsai Mirai 2022-12-30 | Go behind the scenes with Mirai's creative team in this exclusive video about making the making of Mirai in the Wild - Crater Lake. If you've enjoyed the Mirai in the Wild series, help us continue this project and our efforts to document these ancient trees—raising awareness about the challenges they face due to climate change, deforestation, invasive species, and beyond. Learn how you can contribute to the continuation of Mirai in the Wild: bonsaimirai.com/blog/mirai-wild-puglian-olives-fundraiser
Somedays at Mirai: The Olympics Bonsai Mirai 2022-12-23 | Go behind the scenes with Mirai's creative team in this exclusive video about making the making of Mirai in the Wild - Olympic Mountains. If you've enjoyed the Mirai in the Wild series, help us continue this project and our efforts to document these ancient trees—raising awareness about the challenges they face due to climate change, deforestation, invasive species, and beyond. Learn how you can contribute to the continuation of Mirai in the Wild: bonsaimirai.com/blog/mirai-wild-puglian-olives-fundraiser
Mirai in the Wild Needs Your Support Bonsai Mirai 2022-12-18 | Mirai in the Wild has explored the incredible caldera of Crater Lake, the alpine environments of the Olympic National Park and walked you through the ancient groves of the Rocky Mountains.Now we need your help to continue this project—dedicating our efforts to documenting these ancient trees and raising awareness about the challenges that they're facing. We believe that by building a relationship with a single tree, we can continue our efforts on a larger scale. Please contribute to the continuation of Mirai in the Wild by texting MIRAI to 44321 or by following the link: bonsaimirai.com/blog/mirai-wild-puglian-olives-fundraiserWe appreciate your help!
Wild-inspired ceramics #shorts Bonsai Mirai 2022-12-08 | Discover the Triskele Collective's adventures throughout the majestic North American landscapes that inspired and influenced the creation of the ceramic collection from our recent collaboration with these three incredibly talented creative forces.
How to Create Deadwood on a Pine Bonsai Tree Bonsai Mirai 2022-12-07 | Creating deadwood in bonsai design is done by either making a wound that will later need to be healed or digging deep into the core fibers of the tree’s tissue—connecting pieces of deadwood that give the impression of wildness and age. Build your skills around non-traditional techniques and aesthetic creation of bonsai deadwood on a pine tree to remedy structural issues and create visual interest.
Ponderosa Pine: Best in Show at the Pacific Bonsai Expo #shorts Bonsai Mirai 2022-12-01 | #bonsaitree #bonsai
Ancient Forests #shorts Bonsai Mirai 2022-11-17 | Sound on for insightful tree wisdom from our latest podcast episode of Asymmetry, featuring the Ancient Forest Society
Bonsai Forests of Mirai Bonsai Mirai 2022-11-11 | No other bonsai style more accurately conveys the relationship between environmental impact and the form of a tree than the forest. In this video, we dive deep into the traditional form of forest formation and explore how we can use a bonsai form to represent the environment in all its elements. Join us on Ryan’s journey across North America in his growth as a bonsai artist—represented through his explorations of forests.
How to Make a Boxwood Bonsai Ft. Rodney Clemons Bonsai Mirai 2022-11-02 | Boxwoods are a world-wide tree species recognized for their contributions to the domestic landscape, and inside of the practice of bonsai recognized for their fantastic acclamation and accommodation of stunning representations of nature in miniature. Build your boxwood bonsai skills as we cover the fundamentals–starting from raw material, how to prune, wire, style, repot, and understand the seasonal timing of work over the course of the year to maximize their presence as a bonsai subject.
Fall foliage tour #shorts Bonsai Mirai 2022-11-02 | Take a look inside Mirai's bonsai garden during the fall season and immerse yourself in the colors and textures of the season.
Quaking Aspen Bonsai Second Styling Bonsai Mirai 2022-10-19 | As one of the most widespread broadleaf deciduous tree species in the United States—aspen is known for its iconic white bark, vibrant yellow fall color, and gentle quaking sound of the leaves in the wind. We circle back to this hollow trunk, beaver-chewed quaking aspen, laying out the secondary structure via wiring to shape a more mature silhouette. Grow your understanding of the secondary stages of development on how to wire a bonsai.
How to Trunk Bend a Field-Grown Pine Bonsai Bonsai Mirai 2022-10-05 | With the devastating loss of Telperion Farms, a prominent bonsai tree cultivator, to the Oregon wildfires, we dedicate this stream to reflect, recognize and appreciate the talented people, the special facilities, and the bonsai culture that Telperion Farms has given rise to. We were honored to be offered the chance to rescue a few of their remaining field-grown trees from the fires. Collaborate with us as we perform early fall work, such as a trunk bend and an initial styling, on a rescued field-grown white pine to honor and support all that Telperion Farms has done for the bonsai community.
Mirai in the Wild: The Rockies Bonsai Mirai 2022-09-13 | Colorado's Rocky Mountains form the backbone of North America and serve as a dividing ridge between continents. Ancient bristlecone and limber pine trees adorn these contrasting landscapes that make up some of the country's most stunning and natural environments. Mirai in the Wild is an original series that follows bonsai professional Ryan Neil as he journeys to the native landscapes of endangered and significant trees. Embedded in the environment, he processes and understands nature's elements in the way the tree does–interpreting and expressing the aesthetic of nature through the art of bonsai. Returning to his place of birth, in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Neil finds a familiar yet unexpected relationship that flourishes amidst the experience of marveling at the grandeur of the Limber Pine Grove and the magnificent bristlecone pines of Windy Ridge. These wild landscapes challenge our perceptions of vulnerability, durability, and openness to the fruits and bounty forged through our relationships with nature and humanity.Through this journey, we encourage the self-exploration of one's environmental stewardship and how our actions affect the livelihood of these ancient forests to ensure their longevity for generations to come.Check out previous episodes here:Crater Lake: youtube.com/watch?v=9bmbPwtJujEThe Olympics: youtube.com/watch?v=Nek66VVPIJY
Late Summer Physiology of Bonsai Branch Bending Bonsai Mirai 2022-08-18 | As we move into the late summer season in the Northern Hemisphere, the discussion around branch bending becomes pertinent for most pine and juniper bonsai trees. This lecture is a capstone on the technical application of function and form, and when these concepts are applied, the lines of both technique and aesthetics in your bonsai practice will begin to merge.
How to Master the Art of Kusamono Bonsai Mirai 2022-08-03 | As a representation of nature in miniature, kusamono can take on many visual forms and a multitude of approaches to demonstrate the understory vegetation that completes the environmental story of the bonsai and kusamono pairing, aiding in the story telling of the tree.Witness the microcosm of kusamono and bonsai accents through the eyes of Young Choe, a world renowned kusamono artist. Learning how to create, maintain, and refine these delicate plantings.
Schefflera Bonsai: Design and Styling Techniques Bonsai Mirai 2022-07-20 | Throughout temperate areas of the world, Schefflera is commonly interpreted as an indoor species of plants that adorn sunny or bright window sills across urban apartments and homes alike, but in the tropical regions of the world and in the context of bonsai, this is a phenomenal species to be utilized. They are often called money trees or dwarf Hawaiian umbrella trees, with a helicopter-style propeller perched on top. They can range from banyan trees, single trunk trees, forests, or even a collection of aerial routes that form together and produce one crown.In this video, David Cutchin–a renowned tropical bonsai expert and practitioner, breaks down the step-by-step process of how to take this common plant species and turn it into an incredible bonsai subject through the application of artistry, design, and technique.
Schefflera Bonsai: Species Care and Styling Bonsai Mirai 2022-07-06 | Schefflera arboricola is a common species used for bonsai and an easy-to-find tropical variety in your common grocery store garden section or local nursery. They are often called money trees or dwarf hawaiian umbrella trees, with a helicopter-style propeller perched on top. They can range from banyan trees, single trunk trees, forests, or even a collection of aerial routes that form together and produce one crown.David Cutchin–a renowned tropical bonsai expert and practitioner, guides us through an introduction to the Schefflera species with a multi-trunk styling. In this video learn the basic care tips for your Hawaiian umbrella bonsai as well as how to style your schefflera.
How to Make a Ficus Bonsai Bonsai Mirai 2022-07-05 | Ficus is one of the most iconic, widely available, and distributed tropical species that are utilized in the bonsai approach. There are so many species of Ficus–from the microcarpa to the macrocarpa, from the retusa to the benjamina, that they start to demand a greater degree of understanding. Exploring the handling and timing of horticulture and physiological responses allows us to evolve these independent Ficus species, giving them the proper care they need to flourish.David Cutchin–a renowned tropical bonsai expert and practitioner of D&L Bonsai Nursery, walks us through the nuances of each of these predominantly utilized ficus species, and how to develop and evolve material at differing stages to facilitate the best possible outcome as a mature bonsai over time.
Greenhouse Evolution Bonsai Mirai 2022-06-16 | Cultivating bonsai in temperate areas of the world means trying to maximize the longevity of your growing season, not only to increase the scope of work but also to customize and tailor the care you can provide to the trees under your stewardship.At Mirai, the presence of a greenhouse is not just a luxury but a necessity. We carefully considered every detail during the construction process–from material and aesthetics to the utilities and airflow. Greenhouse evolutions are a product of time and collected experience. In this video, we share a reflection of our 12 years of experience highlighted through the greenhouse's evolution, with an educational summary on designing a greenhouse space that resets the standard for what to expect as a functional and beautiful structure in the bonsai practice.
Asymmetry Interview: Dan Robinson Bonsai Mirai 2022-06-01 | Dan Robinson owns and operates Elandan Gardens in Bremerton, Washington. His seminars and workshops on bonsai carving and sculptural processes present a unique perspective–emphasizing natural forms and rejecting prescribed rules that he feels restrict artistic expression. During a recent trip to his garden, the Mirai team spent one-on-one time with Dan, exploring his unique perspective and horticultural approach to the bonsai art form over his prolonged and illustrious career.You can also check out our latest blog, which features a photo essay of Dan's iconic garden: bonsaimirai.com/blog/elandan-gardens
Ceramic Discussion with the Triskele Collective Bonsai Mirai 2022-05-20 | The Triskele Collective includes Tom Benda, Andrew Pearson, and Thor Holvila–a trio of exceptionally talented ceramicists in the bonsai realm. Each member brings their own unique skills and styles to every collaboration, creating one-of-a-kind works of art that are both beautiful and functional.In this stream, we discuss ceramic vessels in their entirety with these three incredibly talented and well-known bonsai ceramicists. Tune in as we increase your understanding of the ceramic vessel and all of its constructive parts as we sit down with the Triskele Collective.
Health ID: Spring Foliage Drop Bonsai Mirai 2022-05-18 | As we move into the growth phase of the spring season we are often presented with odd, little intricacies of species-specific behavior. Needle drop can occur for some species as a normal loss of second-year needles, but some forms of needle drop may indicate a deeper health issue. In this stream, learn to differentiate between species-specific nuances and possible health issues that may indicate a disease, pest, or issue within the root system.
