Welcome to my bonsai intensive calendar for 2024. Last year I operated 2 locations in LA, located at Yamaguchi Bonsai Nursey and in North Hollywood. The LA groups will now be consolidated into one location, at my private garden located in Arcadia. These intensives are $80/session and run from 9 AM – 2 PM. I require advance RSVP and I cap the number of members.
Currently my San Diego groups are fully booked. If you’d like to join a waiting list for San Diego, please contact me privately via the contact form on my website.
In these intensives I follow these simple principles in the following order:
1) First all work is driven by the health of a tree. As a living art, if a tree dies it ceases to be bonsai. Horticulture and health is the basis for all work.
2) If a tree is healthy it is able to respond to different bonsai based techniques. We can leverage techniques to develop a tree, create branching, and generate predictable responses.
3) With great horticulture and technique, we can pursue art and realize different aesthetic visions or philosophical concepts of bonsai.
If you are interested in participating contact me via my site or my email julian.tsai96@gmail.com. Thank you for your support.
LA Bonsai Intensive Arcadia Session 1
January 6 @ 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
| $80The first study group session in Arcadia will be run on January 6th! Since I am transitioning to hosting sessions at my private garden, I will be able to show participants direct and relevant examples of techniques and their results. It runs from 9 AM – 2 PM and cost is $80. Lunch can be ordered or participants can bring their own lunch. Please RSVP to confirm your slot.
At this time we’re in the middle of winter in Southern California. Because of our mild climate, it is a great time to do structural pruning on deciduous, wiring and repotting conifers, as well as grafting (thread/approach/scion). I’d like to center these early sessions around deciduous technique discussion and work, but other applicable work is acceptable as well. I require that any trees brough are healthy so that they can be worked on. Please contact me at julian.tsai96@gmail.com to RSVP and for any questions. Thank you!