Welcome to my bonsai intensive calendar for 2025. I currently operate 2 locations in Los Angeles (Arcadia) and San Diego (Lemon Grove area). Cost is $100 per session, not including lunch.
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.
San Diego Study Group – Session 5 (g1)
December 7 @ 9:00 am - 2:30 pm
| $100The fifth session for San Diego G1 will be run on 12/7. Session cost is $100, not including lunch but food is typically ordered. Group is capped at 7 slots. Please RSVP with me to confirm your slot.
We are now in December, where temperate species should have entered dormancy or began shedding their leaves. Conifers will have lignified growth and pines which were decandled should have hard summer needles now. This is quite an adaptable time of year to do major work on deciduous and conifers. We do however need to be mindful that trees are not putting on growth now, so we cannot be overly aggressive or cut hard to budless areas or weak foliage. Please contact me with any questions or concerns at julian.tsai96@gmail.com