Follow the journey of one Monterey Cypress from seed to show-ready bonsai tree. Grown from a seed (from a tree in the Presidio of San Francisco) in 2007, this tree grew quickly,...
Show prep starts with the decision to show a tree. From there, the focus is on styling the tree - wiring, fine branch setting, and trimming. The next major hurdle is finding an ...
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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 i...
A step-by-step walk through of Eric's design and build of his own bonsai stands, using typical mortise and tenon joints as well as the more intricate and complex joints that hav...
If old bonsai trees could talk, I'm sure they'd have amazing stories to share of places they're been and the people who've cared for them. They can live for decades, if not hund...
Moments in time; snapshots; fleeting impressions - these had a great influence on me when I was a beginning bonsai student. I find it productive to walk around bonsai shows and ...
A quick review of the 2019 Bonsai-San show in Saulieu, France. Includes a video walk-through of this global bonsai show, one of the largest and best bonsai shows in Europe.
That time Eric Schrader designed and built a kayak specifically for a white pine bonsai clump to show at the Cherry Blossom Festival in San Francisco's Japantown, and then took ...
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