We will be repotting from nursery pots into bonsai pots and doing an initial styling on a shohin-size red stem sea hibiscus. Beginners welcome. The trees can be kept indoors year-round if desired.

Learn the general tips and tricks of Hinoki, while styling and pruning a sought after cultivar - 'Sekka' hinoki cypress, as outdoor bonsai trees.

Participants choose between various wild-collected yamadori boxwoods. These landscaping shrubs make for great bonsai due to their small leaves but it takes some careful pruning to get them reduced in size while surviving the operation. Using trees dug in the past 1-4 years, you will learn how to prune them with confidence to promote backbudding and airflow as well as how much foliage is okay to remove. We can also advance into wiring and deadwood techniques if time allows or discuss those ideas for future stylings.