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There have been lots of posts and comments over the years involving older trees and how to manage them. Among those comments are Some that argue buying older developed trees is basically not as dynamic as creating something from scratch” This NBF blog post is about the initial design donation...

An introspective post from the National Bonsai Association about the Yamaki pine on its meaning, its endurance and its care. I’m humbled to have become a tiny contributor to its long history in the last year as a volunteer at the National Bonsai And Penjing Museum...

This video/photo showed up in my Facebook feeds. It’s a video of a ten second digital exhibition by Art.innovation.gallery that appeared in there on big video screens in Times Square and Broadway

Many beginners ask if they can repot out of season. This post will explain. The tree here is a big developed Chinese elm that started life as an almost mallsai but was converted to a better looking structure. The owner of the tree hadn’t repotted it in years and the tree was declining with...

Made a trip to my favorite bonsai nursery today. They have some Bald Cypress collected in S.E. Virginia. Nice trees. They also had a Peve Minaret cultivar they found in a local nursery. It's the largest I've ever seen--about five inches at soil level. The graft union is almost invisible...

Some photos of some trees today at the museum in the heat. The bald cypress is Guy Guidrys redesign and repotting of his donated tree. It is huge. The new pot doesn’t thrill me and may have been used because it was the biggest at the PBA show he could get his hands on. The huge California live...

This sounds bad. It’s been around a few years and was initially discovered only a few miles to the south of me. It’s spreading and is apparently %100 fatal https://mocoshow.com/2025/06/09/beech-leaf-disease-worsens-in-maryland-detected-in-montgomery-county/

If anyone follows Matt Ouwinga on Facebook you know his house got dinged pretty bad by a strong thunderstorm and tornado a couple of weeks back. He is slogging through recovering from that storm. Take a look through his pot store on ebay. He’s got a 22 percent off sale on all his pots. There...

The National Bonsai and Penjing Museum in DC is having its annual satsuki exhibit. Big small and in between. This exhibit includes on June 1 as the last of the trees flower. Get there soon. It’s worth the trip. These photos are from today.

My Hino maru is about 80 percent out. Had fears this one was done in by the rough winter.

Another Contract bonsai thief arrested https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/15760386?fbclid=IwY2xjawKR1m5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHlIphMyWqDwONbyEYkYRtqteUd80pWHMWJdrlo0zL3JHVlJEUq27vdBcm9f__aem_nXypuF4F7gBBHXGeWGsb9g

Guy Guidry was a headliner at the Potomac Bonsai show this weekend. He w Resigned and repotted his big Bald Cypress he donated to the museum back in the early 90s (or late 80s). Got this photo as he was doing preliminary work before the demo. Pot selection? I was partial to the one on the left

Great turn out for the Yamaki Pine birthday at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum. A big crowd for the ceremony including the Japanese ambassador. Have never seen this many people at the museum. Guy Guidry and Chase Rosade reunion too. 😁

The Potomac Bonsai Association show and sale is this weekend at the National Arboretum. Shaping up to be a great weekend for it I’m headed up Saturday. Looking forward to it as I do every year

The Mayor of Washington DC declared May 10 World Bonsai Day I the District. This coincides with the Potomac Bonsai Association show and sale at the National Bonsai And Penjing Museum May 9-11

needed rennovation of the entry walk to the museum https://www.bonsai-nbf.org/blog-archive/2025/3/27/garden-renovations?mc_cid=8aeeeab878&mc_eid=3ed315ca2c&fbclid=IwY2xjawJSu85leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHapPL8tYQC5LhOiPpFpn7_80p1XBg8Q-nhE3VIvZFXk2fPLV8Pg5h3sS2A_aem_nxFeIocLByxSvmupkwIEIQ

Interesting full circle for this tree. Variety was pioneered and developed at the National Arboretum a long time ago. The arb is part of the Agricultural Research Service that has developed many disease resistant cultivars of many species...

Repotted this extremely root bound collected winged elm today. I got it last year at the Potomac Bonsai Association show. Cool little tree collected ten years ago in Oklahoma. It was sold because a falling overhead tree limb fell on it and broke the apex out. I plan on redeveloping the apex over...

Beautiful new tree at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum https://www.bonsai-nbf.org/blog-archive/new-donations-2024/blue-spruce?mc_cid=828d9556fb&mc_eid=6ce3af8b51&fbclid=IwY2xjawJANgtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQ_u0I-ctFhTFqxf7m_VQoRmWwdYOksCcWYl_twuqF-cRJAwkLqmOePERA_aem_FFrp-o9cdq59Z_qeiRDx6g

New trees to see at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum, all North American works https://www.bonsai-nbf.org/blog-archive/new-donations-2024?mc_cid=6ee5631fc2&mc_eid=3d9604057f

This is an eye opener on the increasing theft of bonsai in Japan. SE Asia connection to contracted thefts from established nurseries there. Selling the stolen trees in Vietnam after hiring down and out people to do the actual burglary...

Show is looking good Guy Guidry and Andrew Robson headlining Vendor list growing: https://potomacbonsai.com/pba-festival/

As you all know DOGE is cutting federal agency staff budgets and entire federal organizations. That effort has turned to the Department of Agriculture. The Ag Depts’ Agricultural Research Service runs the National Arboretum which is a research facility. The National Bonsai and Penjing Museum is...

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/bonsai-treehouses-by-bobs-burgers-designer-featured-in-federal-way/

The winter silhouette exhibit is in full swing at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum in dc. Some shots from Saturday