The Official Publication of Bonsai Clubs International

Bonsai Magazine
March/April 2002, Volume 41, Number 2
The Masculine Black Pine; A Success Story of a Scots Pine; What Bugs a Pine; Not Seeing the Trees for the Forest (group plantings); Boxwood: Buxus Sempervirens; Position & Direction of Group Planting; The Peace Forest of Saburo Kato & Aikane

Bonsai Magazine
September/October 2001, Volume 40, Number 5
Beautiful Flowering Trees Before Leaves Sprout: Magnolia, Dogwood, Witch Hazel, red maple, Laurel, Rhododendron, White Forsythia, Oleaceae, Rose family, Daphne genkwa; The Beautiful Flowering Tree of Callistemon viminalis; Plunging Penjing; Selecting Trees for Water-And-Land Penjing: Musings of a Master; Hon Non Bo for Smaller Gardens; Shushe Penjing; Tropical Penjing; The White Swamp Paperbark

Bonsai Magazine
March/April 2001, Volume 40, Number 2
The Common Garden Lilac as Bonsai; The Mountain Pine of Pius Notter; Judging a Stone; Observations on the Choice of Bonsai Pots and Suiban; BCI’s Mom and Pop: Connie & Horace Hinds – Collaborative Memories by Mike Halle and John Planting

Bonsai Magazine
November/December 2000, Volume XXXIX, Number 6
Grafting: Case studies if a shoot graft, peg graft, and a pine-shoot graft; The Great Olive Tree by Salvatore Liporace; The Art of Suiseki; The Most Beautiful Bonsai in Autumn: The Growing Diary; Three Mini-Bonsai: White Beech, Chinese Quince and Honeysuckle

Bonsai Magazine
September/October 2000, Volume XXXIX, Number 5
Remembering Mr. Shigeru Nagatoshi; Repotting with Vic Ceballos; Suiseki: Beauty in serenity, a shape of eternity; A Weeping Bald Cypress; Artistic Anatomy of Jack Pine; The Most Beautiful Bonsai in Autumn; 2000 Ben Oki International Design Award winner: “Old Gold” twin-trunk Juniperus chinensis designed by Luigi Maggioni; Theft Recovery of Bonsai using Microchip

Bonsai Magazine
July/August 2000, Volume XXXIX, Number 4
Tribute to Toshio Kawamoto; Saikei Rock Planting; Designing Two Chinese Junipers; Goshin Two: John Naka’s Swan Song; Twin Trunk “Tropical Pines”; California Shohin Society Seminar 2000

Bonsai Magazine
May/June 2000, Volume XXXIX, Number 3
Introduction to the Italian Bonsai Artists: Liporace, Picella, Zongo, Padrini, Nobile, Danisi, Cappellaro and Andolfo; A History of Italian Bonsai; Zino Rongo’s European Olive; Suiseki in the Bel Paese; The Beauty of Yamadori; Cupressus empervirens, The Italian Cypress; The Mountain Echo; A Study of the Juniperus Chinensis; The Dwarf Trees of George Liegelsteiner

Bonsai Magazine
March/April 2000, Volume XXXIX, Number 2
Taikanten Grand Prize: The Chinese Pistachio of Lo-Min Shaun; Pyracantha Forest Group on Polyester Slab; 1999 Asia-Pacific Bonsai Convention in Taiwan; Bonsai Pilgrimage to Okinawa and Japan; Bonsai Garden Tours in Oahu; Rooting Branch Cuttings

Bonsai Magazine
January/February 2000, Volume XXXIX, Number 1
BCI 2000 Hawaii: Passing the Torch; Twin Trunk in Bordeaux (demonstration on a Pinus mugo from the Swiss mountains); An Ice Age Planter; Nick Len: A New England Character; Two Occidental Ppotters: Sara Rayner & Mario Remeggio; Sue Aziz: Lady from Indonesia; Ancient Chinese Pottery Arts: The Imperial and Official Wares; Getting Potted: The Harmony of a Tree and Its Container

Bonsai Magazine
November/December 1999, Volume XXXVIII, Number 6
GSBF to Honor Tosh Saburomaru; BCI 2000 Hawaii Part II; Austrian Pine; Pinus Halepensis; Celebrating the Life of the First Lady of Bonsai: Melba Tucker; 1999 Ben Oki International Design Award; Ben Oki, the Man Behind the Design Award; The Role of Bonsai in U.S. – Japan Diplomacy; Salvatore Liporace’s Anima: The San Jose Juniper

Bonsai Magazine
September/October 1999, Volume XXXVIII, Number 5
Catching Up With John Naka; BCI 2000 Hawaii; Suiseki in the Tropics: Puerto Rican Experience; Azalea Tips Part II; Bonsai Design: Beyond Heaven, Man and Earth with Salvatore Lipporace; The Signature Tree; Coast Olive in the New South Africa; Calligraphy & Bonsai

Bonsai Magazine
July/August 1999, Volume XXXVIII, Number 4
Touring Kunio Kobayashi’s garden with Boon Manakitivipart; A Chinese Juniper in China; Bougainvillea; Buttonwood: Literati Style; Bonsai in the Philippines; Azalea Tips; Journal of Japanese Gardening

Bonsai Magazine
May/June 1999, Volume XXXVIII, Number 3
Reshaping a Tropical Bonsai: Just Do It; Redesigning an Old Australian Fig; My Favorite Tree: the Willow Leaf Fig; A Ficus Named Jurassic (the Taiwan Ficus): Banana Bonsai; The Appreciation of a Stone; Story of the BCI Logo

Bonsai Magazine
January/February 1999, Volume XXXVIII, Number 1
Yose-ue: Blaau’s Juniper; The Story of a Silverberry; Bonsai in Alaska; The Best Taxus cuspidata; Profile of Master Kunio Kobayashi; The Japanese Garden of Portland, Oregon; A Labor of Love (collecting stones in the Mojave Desert)

Bonsai Magazine
November/December 1998, Volume XXXVII, Number 6
BCI ’98 Tropical Treasures: Exhibit, Friends & Garden Tour; The Mugo Pine; Profile of Master Masahiro Furukawa; Akiko Kondo Refines a Japanese Black Pine; 1998 Ben Oki International Design Award: the winning Conocarpus erectus, runners up were a Blaau’s Juniper Yose-ue and an English Yew; The Genus Bucida; Collecting Bonsai in the City

Bonsai Magazine
September/October 1998, Volume XXXVII, Number 5
Bonsai in Indonesia; The Candle Tree: Grace Under Pressure; Refinement Techniques for Ficus neriifolia: A Study in the Advancement of a Willow Leaf Fig; Suiseki: The Invisible Art Part II; The Mountain Hemlock; Container Aesthetics: Design… Consider the Bird by Michael Hagedorn

Bonsai Magazine
July/August 1998, Volume XXXVII, Number 4
BCI ’98 True Tropical Treasures; Verdaderos Tesoros Tropicales; Container Aestheteics: Site Evocation by Michael Hagedorn; Refining a California Juniper: Boon Manakitivipart; Suiseki: The Invisible Art; Sabina Juniper of Switzerland; Bonsai in India (includes list of species commonly used in India)

Bonsai Magazine
May/June 1998, Volume XXXVII, Number 3
California’s Suiseki Society’s Fifth Annual Exhibition; BCI ’98 San Juan Puerto Rico, Tropical Treasures Headliners; Tools for Beginning Bonsai Artists; The Thunder God - Salvatore Liporace of Italy works on a Needle Juniper; Container Aesthetics: Mechanics of a Pot by Michael Hagedorn

Bonsai Magazine
March/April 1998, Volume XXXVII, Number 2
My Panama Connection (working on a collected Macano); The Five Key Elements of Suiseki; Visiting Bonsai at Its Roots (Korea, China, Japan); Touring the Lands of the Rising Calm and the Rising Sun with John Naka and Ben Oki; Suseok: Korean Suiseki; I’m Thirsty and I Can’t Get Up (proper watering of bonsai)

Bonsai Magazine
January/February 1998, Volume XXXVII, Number 1
A Tribute to Yuji Yoshimura; Japanese Black Pine in a Tropical Setting; Casuarina Equitsetifolia as Bonsai Material; Suiseki Part 6; The Historic Japanese Stone Aesthetic; Creation of a Birch Bonsai

Bonsai Magazine
November/December 1997, Volume XXXVI, Number 6
Penjing: Worlds of Wonderment by Qinquam Zhao book review; The Horsechestnut as Bonsai; Keido: The Way of Display and Appreciaton Part 2; Collecting in the Black Hills of South Dakota Part 3; John Naka’s Swiss Dragon; Presentation of Suiseki; Criterion for Making a Dai and Choosing a Suiban; BCI ’98 Tropical Treasures San Juan, Puerto Rico

Bonsai Magazine
September/October 1997, Volume XXXVI Number 5
Keido: The Way of Display and Appreciation; Literati Penjing; Suiseki: Nature As Artist Part 2; Collecting in the Black Hills of South Dakota Part 2

Bonsai Magazine
July/August 1997, Volume 36 Number 4
The Soul of the Tree (workshop with Kimura); Collecting in the Black Hills of South Dakota Part 1; The Garden of Pius Notter of Switzerland; Reflections On the Art of Chinese Penjing Master Qingquam “Book” Zhao; John Naka’s Final Demonstration

Bonsai Magazine
May/June 1997, Volume 36 Number 3
Collecting Not As Easy As It Looks; IBC ’97 Toronto; Italy’s Massimo Bandera Gives a New Look to An Old Juniper

Bonsai Magazine
March/April 1997, Volume 36 Number 2
A Collected Juniper and the Compromised “Life Line”; Arborvitae: Great Bonsai and a Cure for Scurvy Too; Thuja Occidentalis (Eastern White Cedar); IBC ’97 Toronto’s Bonsai Borealiz; Styling an Ancient Sabina Juniper

Bonsai Magazine
November/December 1996, Volume 35 Number 6
Twin Trunk Larch; Collecting Larch in Canada; Suiseki in California; Stars of IBC ’96; An Evolving Group of Trident Maples

Bonsai Magazine
September/October 1996, Volume 35 Number 5
Artist Warren Hill’s Magnificent 59 Tree Forest Planting; Bonsai Artist Vaughn Banting; American Hornbeam; In Memory of Kahn Komai;

Bonsai Magazine
July/August 1996, Volume 35 Number 4
European Larch as Bonsai; Japanese Yew; National Bonsai and Penjing Museum Now Complete; Art of Suiseki is Widespread in Taiwan; Additional photo of Toshio Saburomaru

Bonsai Magazine
May/June 1996, Volume 35 Number 3
Wiring Techniques by Yoshinobu Kaneko; Elanden Gardens (in Bremerton Washington); Tribute to Toshio Saburomaru – A Pioneer in American Bonsai; Working with Uncommon Material; Melba Tucker: America’s First Lady of Bonsai, Saikei & Suiseki

Bonsai Magazine
January/February 1996, Volume XXXV Number 1
Creating Harmony with Shohin Bonsai and a Stone; Buddleia Saligna; Claft Style Saikei; Trees from the National Collectio of North American Bonsai; Notes from the Nakayam Workshop Part 2; Spring Shows Always Ahead, Re-Evaluate * Refine * Re-Design?

Bonsai Magazine
November/December 1995, Volume XXXIV Number 6
Pillbugs and Slugs in Your Bonsai; A Suiseki Aesthetics Paradigm; Mikawa Origin Black Pine, Two-Year Progression to a “Special Bonsai”; New Frontier for Shohin Pine; Mr. Suisho Nakayama On Satsuki Azalea; Australian Bonsai

Bonsai Magazine
September/October 1995, Volume XXXIV Number 5
Fall Through Winter Maintenace for Black Pines; Ficus Mexicana; Define and Refine a Black Pine;The Right Shape for the Right Style (Needle Juniper); Noelander’s Taxus Baccata; 2^nd Exhibition of the Japanese Bonsaiist Association; The Old Weather Spruce; Children and Bonsai; What is Plant Nutrition?

Bonsai Magazine
July/August 1995, Volume XXXIV Number 4
Redesigning a Two-Tree Blaauw’s Juniper Arrangement; Shohin – Small But Powerful; The Concave Cut; The 17^th Sobo Shohin Bonsai Exhibition; The 8^th Sofu Shohin Exhibition; The 5^th Exhibition of Shohin Bonsai and Suiseki; The 6^th Kanagawa Prefecture Shohin Masterpiece Exhibit;  The Right Shape for the Right Style

Bonsai Magazine
May/June 1995 Volume XXXIV Number 3
Secret of Maple Creation; Imagine a Path Through a Maple Grove by Soici Tsuzaka; Pumice Stones for Rock Planting; Maximizing the Masters; Suiseki Exhibition

Bonsai Magazine
January/February 1995, Volume XXXIV Number 1
The Natal Fig (Ficus Natalensis); Weeping Style Mame Bonsai (using Boston Ivy); Huangshan “The Capital of Heaven”; Creating a Miniature Landscape with Moss; The Flowering Quince (Chaenomeles)

Bonsai Magazine
January/February 1994, Volume XXXIII Number 1
Cliffrose (Cowania mexicana) of the Great Basin; Mame Bonsai; Lantana – Old Italian Word for Viburnum; Yugawa’s Method of Growing Black Pine

Bonsai Magazine
September/October 1993, Volume XXXII Number 5
Banyan Grove; Wisteria Part III; Right Shape for the Right Style; WBC/IBC ’93: It Was An Experience; Looking Toward IBC ‘94/GSBF XVII – California Catalysts (John Thompson, John Planting, Jim Ransohoff, Jim Barrett)

Bonsai Magazine
July/August 1993, Volume XXXII Number 4
The “Tosho” (Needle Juniper); Wisteria Part II; Creating a Kengai (Cascade) bonsai; Challenge of a Linden Leaf; Suiseki or iewing Stone’ There is a Difference Part II

Bonsai Magazine
May/June 1993, Volume XXXII Number 3
Wisteria; Jaboticaba; Takeyama’s deciduous workshop – Part II; Bald Cypress grove by Banting; The “Cosmetics of Bonsai Detailing”

Bonsai Magazine
March/April 1993, Volume XXXII Number 2
The Larch; Takeyama’s maple workshop; Buttonwood as bonsai - Part II

Bonsai Magazine
January/February 1993, Volume XXXII Number 1
Ogawa’s Goyo-matsu; Morning of the Camillia; Buttonwood as bonsai

Bonsai Clubs International Magazine: 1987 - 1992

BCI September/October 1992, Volume XXXI No. 5
Magic in Memphis: bonsai convention starring John Naka and Masahiko Kimura; the Ishiguro method of maple cultivation; characteristics of the princess persimmon; stone clasping bonsai; chrysanthemum bonsai; the Kurobe tree; wisteria

BCI July/August 1992 Volume XXXI No. 4
Suiseki – Its spirit and art; a Chinese Penjing artist visits America; the Suiseki extension; another honor for John Naka; bonsai in Puerto Rico; All about the princess persimmon

BCI May/June 1992, Volume XXXI No. 3
a new design for a Japanese red pine; root-over-rock seven-step technique; pesticides: use, misuse, abuseTwelve different approaches for styling a given tree; the princess persimmon; a Goyo-matsu perched on a remote rock quay; uses rocks to “Create a Bonsai World”

BCI January/February 1992, Volume XXXI No. 1
Cultivating your satsuki bonsai and the importance of knowing your tree; Bonsai World loses Horace Hinds of Kusamura; the IBC ’91 tour in Britain and Europe; Latest creations of Masahiko Kimura; bonsai in Puerto Rico; Beginners Class: Rethinking the triangle

BCI November/December 1991, Volume XXX No. 6
Cypress – a unique conifer; Ultimate reason for pruning a Japanese mountain maple; shaping Five-needle pine; winter care of bonsai plants in cold climates

BCI March/April 1991, Volume XXX No. 2
Getting ready for spring; Supply, demand and deficits (maximizing growth in your bonsai); Photographing bonsai; Foliage reduction on deciduous trees; Pruning elms, etc.; Mycorrhizae; the shishi odoshi or “deer scare”; Introduction to native British species as bonsai (Hawthorn, Yew, etc)

BCI January/February 1991, Volume XXX No. 1
Roy Nagatoshi and Pomegranate; Cultivating flowering and fruiting bonsai; maples; the cedar elm; the John Naka Pavilion; Collected Scots pines

BCI July/August 1990, Volume XXIX No. 4
Junipers as bonsai; Juniper Restyling; Formal upright style (Chokkan); Bonsai in South Africa; Feeding a rock planting; Shohin: the art of the impossible; Portrait of a Teacher: Tosh, founding member and principal sensei honored at Kusamura’s 25^th Anniversary; Japanese aesthetics and bonsai appreciation

BCI May/June 1990, Volume XXIX No. 3
Jins and sharis; Superior rootage – the starting point of your masterpiece; Transforming a large satsuki into a shohin; Profile of a bonsai internationalist: Saburo Kato; A bonsai portrait of Shinji Ogasawara

BCI March/April 1990, Volume XXIX No. 2
Transforming a large satsuki into a shohin; Mame bonsai of the tropics; Reducing very large bonsai to shohin size; Root over rock – modern technology for an old style

BCI January/February 1990, Volume XXIX No. 1
Switzerland – Collecting trees in the Alps; Training Collected Hawaiian Ironwood Bonsai; Collecting in Georgia-Alabama-Mississippi; Bonsai Collected from the Wild; Bonsai in Britain 1989; Gallery of BCI member bonsai from collected material; Informal and more natural styles in bonsai

BCI November/December 1989, Volume XXVIII No. 6
Bonsai Collecting at Home (in your yard); Collecting Miniaturized Beech in Corsica; The Art of Penjing Miniature Landscapes from China; Weyerhaeuser Company’s Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection Opens in Washington State;

BCI September/October 1989, Volume XXVIII No. 5
Bonsai Collecting on the Big Island: The Ohia-Lehua; Moss Coverage – The “Method”; Ginkgo Biloba

BCI May/June 1989, Volume XXVIII No. 3
Humor and Virtue of Muromachi Bonsai; Proper Placement in Bonsai Pot; What Kind of Soil to Use; Grooming; Bonsai in Prague; Garden of the Dragon Flower

BCI March/April 1989, Volume XXVIII No. 2
Magnificent Root Mass of the Trident Maple “Map of the World” – How Were Those Roots Formed?; Exposed Root Style NE-AGARI; Bei Koku Bonsai Meigo Kai Naming Ceremony; World Bonsai Friendship Federation; Timing Bonsai Root Pruning to Maximize or Minimize Growth

BCI January/February 1989, Volume XXVIII No. 1
Introducing Suiseki; New Twist to Creating Clump Style Bonsai; The Common Pear: a Tree for All Seasons; Demonstrators at World Bonsai Convention April 1989 in Omiya, Japan

BCI September/October 1988, Volume XXVII No. 5
Mountains and Water in Chinese Art; Chinese Rock Penjing Emphasis on Construction; The Many Facets of Chinese Bonsai; Rocks and Rock Landscapes; Notes on Antique Chinese Bonsai Pots

BCI July/August 1988, Volume XXVII No. 4
Japanese Mapes – An Encompassing Story; Forest on a Rock; Summer Oak for Bonsai; Wonderful Wisteria; Phoenix Graft; Air Layering Large Maples

BCI May/June 1988, Volume XXVII No. 3
Bonsai: The Kimura Way; Trident Maple: A Case Study; Bonsai for Giants?; South African Bonsai; Mutli-Style Shohin Black Pines in 7 Years from Seedlings; Olive Bonsai

BCI March/April 1988, Volume XXVII No. 2
Hinoki Cypress; Ishitsuki – Clinging to a Rock Style; A Nostalgia for Texas Bonsai; “Planting Out” Beds; Restyling a Sierra Juniper

BCI January/February 1988, Volume XXVII No. 1
The Delicate Savour of Black Pine Literati; The Fine Art of Bunjin; A Line – A Tree – Bunjin; Grafting for Bonsai; From Cascade to Bunjin

BCI November/December 1987, Volume XXVI No. 6
Ginkgo Biloba; The Nothofagus Antarctica as a Bonsai; BCI celebrates its 25^th birthday in Minneapolis; National Foundation Exhibit; Water and Land Penjing

BCI September/October 1987, Volume XXVI No. 5
Tsunaiti Miyoshi’s Nipponso in Brazil; Thread Grafting; Autumn of the leaves; Moss; Winter Care; The Challenge of Ikadabuki (the raft); Light and Temperature and Growth in Trees; Bamboo on the Rocks