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.
West LA Study Group – Session 4, Morning
June 11, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
| $50The 4th study group session for Yamaguchi Bonsai Nursery will be run on June 11th. There will be a morning and afternoon slot, feel free to sign up for just one or both. Session cost is $50–please RSVP with me to secure your slot!
We’re transitioning into the start of early summer, hopefully temperatures aren’t too hot! At this time of year we can work on pines–decandling (if in refinement), cut backs, as well wiring if decandled. In addition to pine work, this is the last call for major deciduous/broadleaf work before temperatures ramp up too much in the summer. Meaning defoliation, shoot selection, wiring, and thread grafting. Junipers should be lignified from their spring growth, so we can wire those as well.
Please contact me at julian.tsai96@gmail.com for any questions or concerns!