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Latest Posts
Bonsai Design Japanese Black Pine Root Over Rock
Improving Young Root Over Rock Pines
Root over Rock is one of Eric's favorite bonsai styles, and at any time he has at least a half-dozen young trees in training with auxiliary soil retention mechanisms in place to ensure that the roots make it into the main container so they can eventually be exposed to enhance the value of the composition. Even when selecting stones and arranging roots with intention, there are improvements to make two or three years after the rock and stones were initially paired.
Incremental Progress in Trident Maple Bonsai
Bonsai Show Prep
The Finer Points of Making a Bonsai...
Eric's desire to design his own bonsai stands for his show trees lead him to a woodworking epiphany - some woodworking projects can only be created with hand tools. Learn what it takes to make a beautiful and elegant bonsai stand with hand tools and hand work.
Making Bonsai Stands Creates Lots of Sawdust
Blue Atlas Cedar Saga
Working with Collected Ponderosa Pines for Bonsai
Fall Care Japanese Black Pine Pulling Needles Wiring
Fall Cleanup of a Large Japanese Black...
Bonsai Design Japanese Black Pine Phutu
Small Black Pine Progress
A Little Fall Kifu Elm Bonsai Clean-up
Bonsai Care Cutting branches Growing
When is Less, More?
Eric uses a little pine as a case study to address his internal debate between "bonsai by subtraction" and growing trees into bonsai via seeds and cuttings. There is a school of thought in bonsai that if you eliminate something from a tree you will end up with a result that is a better, more interesting bonsai. On the flip side, this can produce a tree that is simpler, but not necessarily more interesting. Decisions to cut large branches from bonsai should only be made after careful consideration of all options.
What Should a Shohin Bonsai Look Like?
Yamadori-Style Kishu Bonsai Case Study
Designing Yamadori-Style Juniper Bonsai
While many amazing examples of juniper bonsai are created from trees collected from the wild, smaller trees of exceptional quality can be created by careful crafting of juniper cuttings over as little as 5-10 years. Read this article to learn how!
Too Straight For a Juniper Bonsai?
Visual Flow in Bonsai
To create a well-designed bonsai requires finding a balance between two competing factors – human perception and the natural form of a mature tree. While a tree in nature exists indifferent to human approval or interest, a bonsai is a caricature of the natural tree, created in partnership with a human. A bonsai is shaped by our perceptions, and represents our vision of the natural tree - not the natural tree itself. We've created the concept of visual flow in bonsai because it supports our perception of what an ideal tree should look like.
Bonsai Care Bonsai Design Japanese Black Pine Phutu
Sacrifice Branch Reduction to Develop a Good...
Decandling Japanese Black Pine
Selective Decandling and Cutback of a Japanese...
Decandling Japanese Black Pine Spring Work
Nine Things You Need to Know About...
Bonsai Design Bonsai Growth Growing
Understanding Proportion for Bonsai Development
Collecting Phutu Root Over Rock
Collecting Stones from the River
Growing Japanese Black Pine Styling
Creating a Slanted Black Pine Bonsai from...
Eric steps through the process of making a slant style Japanese Black Pine bonsai tree that is roughly 20″ tall, starting from seeds and growing and styling the tree from scratch. It’s a process that involves lots of watering, fertilizing, and waiting for months until key time periods when critical work must be done.
Formative Work on an Elm Bonsai
Spring Cleaning on an Elm Bonsai
Elms can have a good fall clean-up and look nice over the winter, but after a round of healthy spring growth they can start to look overgrown and have dieback in the finer branching. Here's a quick review of how cutting back an Elm bonsai and thinning it a bit can cause back budding and new interior branching.
Bonsai Care Bonsai Health Phutu
How to Treat Root Aphids on Bonsai...
"Members Choice" Kifu Elm Bonsai
Bonsai Growth Japanese Black Pine Root Quality
Terra Cotta vs. Colander – a Root...
For a Great Bonsai Collection, Always be...
Mame Bonsai Maple trees repotting
Moving a Mame Maple Bonsai into a...
Bonsai Care Growing Health Phutu
Why is my Japanese Black Pine bonsai...
How Many Dimensions Does a Bonsai Have?
Crazy Emergency Bonsai Repotting!
Hey, sometimes bad things happens to good bonsai. We made this video to give you an idea of how you can help your tree recover. Broken containers, smashed branches, oh my!
Branch Flattening for Light Optimization and Taper...
Shrinking a Juniper
Eric has an “ah-ha!” moment while contemplating the trunk of a small, cutting-grown Kishu Juniper bonsai. He walks through how to compress the existing bends further to make the tree more compact and create a design where the branching and the lower trunk work together. Before, during, and after photos included.
Mini-Bonsai Manipulation
My Particular Brand of Bonsai Photography
If you follow me on Instagram (@ericschraderbonsai) then you’ve seen my feed of photos – most of them contain a light grey backdrop with a gradient on it and a single tree lit from the left side. I’ve had quite a few people ask how I create these images so here are the basics and a bit of background. I think it was 2008 when my long-time teacher, Boon Manakativipart asked if I would take all the exhibit photos for the annual Bay Island Bonsai show. I was a new-ish member and flattered that I had the opportunity. At the time, I...
Review of The Little Book of Bonsai...
Four Key Elements of Prepping Bonsai Trees...
Follow this Advice to Improve your Deciduous...
Follow this 5-10 year plan for dramatically improving the quality of deciduous bonsai trees with judicious augmentation of trunk height and/or girth. Eric Schrader demonstrates how to start development of the refined branch structure while simultaneously increasing the size and character of the trunk by using sacrifice branches and large containers, and/or ground growing.
What Your Bonsai Collection Would Look Like...
To Saulieu, France and Back - 2019...
Mame Kishu Juniper Bonsai
Bonsai Kayak
bonsai Health Japanese Black Pine Phutu
Care of Japanese Black Pine bonsai across...
Growing Monterey Cypress Seed show
Monterey Cypress Progression: From Seed to Show...
Artisans Cup Bonsai Design Phutu
The Artisans Cup Judging
Reflections on the Artisans Cup
A Conversation with John Boyce
Exposed Root Japanese Black Pine Phutu
Exposed Root Pine Bonsai #2
Detailed, step-by-step guidance on making exposed-root pine bonsai, following a tree Eric grew from seed in 2006 over 9-years of development.
Exposed Root Japanese Black Pine Phutu
Exposed Root Pine Bonsai #1
Grown With Love
Our high-quality trees are grown by us from bonsai seeds or cuttings in our nursery, then sculpted over years to become detailed and beautiful.


Who We Are
Passionate artists, growers, environmentalists - our family is excited to share our love of Bonsai with you!