Ash Barns wrote:I am currently reading 'Classic Bonsai of Japan' which my wife got me for my Birthday. Highly recommended.
Ash
Very Good Book Ash opens the eyes does it not. Also how long do you leave the wire on, is answered in plate 126 Yezo spruce.
Cheers Pup
Sensational Book, I got it a few years ago at the Vic Bonsai show, the first time I saw what is inside, I swear it was like coming home and finding Angelina Jolie moving her clothes into my wardrobe, then going back outside and finding Kimura watering my pines
Cheers Mojo
...Might as well face it, I'm addicted to Shohin...
"Any creative work can be roughly broken down into three components- design, technique and materials. Good design can carry poor technique and materials but no amount of expertise and beautiful materials can save poor design". Andrew McPherson - Furniture designer and artist
Ash Barns wrote:I am currently reading 'Classic Bonsai of Japan' which my wife got me for my Birthday. Highly recommended.
Ash
Very Good Book Ash opens the eyes does it not. Also how long do you leave the wire on, is answered in plate 126 Yezo spruce.
Cheers Pup
Sensational Book, I got it a few years ago at the Vic Bonsai show, the first time I saw what is inside, I swear it was like coming home and finding Angelina Jolie moving her clothes into my wardrobe, then going back outside and finding Kimura watering my pines
Cheers Mojo
now that would be sensational
i havent read much lately, i read here a lot but one i have picked up recently is craig coussins master class
SHOHIN YAKUZA!!! taking the top half of trees of since 2005!
and growing trees for the future generations! 50+ year plans
Ash Barns wrote:I am currently reading 'Classic Bonsai of Japan' which my wife got me for my Birthday. Highly recommended.
Ash
Very Good Book Ash opens the eyes does it not. Also how long do you leave the wire on, is answered in plate 126 Yezo spruce.
Cheers Pup
Sensational Book, I got it a few years ago at the Vic Bonsai show, the first time I saw what is inside, I swear it was like coming home and finding Angelina Jolie moving her clothes into my wardrobe, then going back outside and finding Kimura watering my pines
Cheers Mojo
now that would be sensational
i havent read much lately, i read here a lot but one i have picked up recently is craig coussins master class
Page 96 you know what Craig w60 looks like page 97 what I look like and page 98 what mrs pup look like now do not hold that against us please
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IN THE LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE ATTAINED, ACHIEVEMENT IS WITHIN SIGHT
Ash Barns wrote:I am currently reading 'Classic Bonsai of Japan' which my wife got me for my Birthday. Highly recommended.
Ash
Very Good Book Ash opens the eyes does it not. Also how long do you leave the wire on, is answered in plate 126 Yezo spruce.
Cheers Pup
Sensational Book, I got it a few years ago at the Vic Bonsai show, the first time I saw what is inside, I swear it was like coming home and finding Angelina Jolie moving her clothes into my wardrobe, then going back outside and finding Kimura watering my pines
Cheers Mojo
now that would be sensational
i havent read much lately, i read here a lot but one i have picked up recently is craig coussins master class
Too right it would be senational, but knowing my luck Jamie, Ange would hook up with Masahiko and they would throw me out of my own house. Kimura saying "those pathetic trees are mine now!" as he chucked my clothes on the front lawn I could just see it!
Mojo
...Might as well face it, I'm addicted to Shohin...
"Any creative work can be roughly broken down into three components- design, technique and materials. Good design can carry poor technique and materials but no amount of expertise and beautiful materials can save poor design". Andrew McPherson - Furniture designer and artist
jamie you should get the first book of the Otori series across the nightingale floor i think ant will testify to this one of the best books ever written and i hate reading but loved this while your layed up it would be great time to get into it its a story of the japenese culture and history like lord of the rings meets crouching tiger hidden dragon
It is hard to imagine that an English lady that moved to Australia could describe the Japanese culture so well but that is what Lian Hearn has done with Otori
I was born in England and [have since] emigrated to Australia. I think the main influences on my writing were my rather disturbed teenage years (I won't go into details) and studying modern languages (French and Spanish) at Oxford. I love languages and words: to learn a foreign language is to enter into a love affair with a country and its culture. It is to become a different person and begin to think in a different way.
Coming to Australia brought me closer to Japan, a country I had been interested in for many years. Australia has many links with Japan, and is in the same time zone, though a different hemisphere. Being an Australian means being between West and East and living in a society that has formed itself out of many different and contradictory elements. I identify with this.
Oh I am now reading Breath by Tim Winton awarded the 2009 Miles Franklin Prize for Literature. I love critics
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It's too bad your in such a hurry cause the stories I could tell you, Bushels and baskets of stories, hole crates full of stories. But if you can spare a moment I will tell you one story.
I have just acquired the John Yoshio Naka Bonsai Techniques 1 & 2....I was told by someone that "these books will never ever be read and left on a shelf as they will be used as referrences for life".....Im starting to agree as ive had them a few months and have been going from each of the books backwards and forwards learning more then i ever have before....They cost a fair amount but i believe you pay for what you get.....
John Nakas bonsai techniques is a classic and as Krittas says its a book for life. The lastest bonsai focus has a couple of great articles one on fungus and one on repairing nebari on an old jbp.
Craig
craigw60 wrote:John Nakas bonsai techniques is a classic and as Krittas says its a book for life. The lastest bonsai focus has a couple of great articles one on fungus and one on repairing nebari on an old jbp.
Craig
Pup
but one i have picked up recently is craig coussins master class 
taking the top half of trees of since 2005! 
