Bonsai Online videos

These are excellent online films giving so many hints and bonsai tips - I find myself hunting through the 40 odd films quite often looking for a section on specific pruning, or on a species etc so I thought I'd put together a set of links with a bit of a description to make it easy to find the right film each time.

Episode 1 - An overview of the Nursery Fujikawa Kouka-en and an insight into what the apprentices do on a daily basis

Episode 2

Energy balancing of Silverberry - Elaeagnus Pungens

Maple pruning in early spring

Day trip to Kyoto - Arashiyama

Episode 3

Juniper Styling - Shimpaku for Kokufu-ten

Cryptomeria - summer maintenance

Episode 4

Hinoki Cypress - Bud pinching & Branch trimming

Day Trip Kyoto

Episode 5

Shimpaku Juniper Refinement - Kifu

Summer maintenance - Dwarf star jasmine

Episode 6

Shohin appreciation and display

Episode 7

Japanese Red & Black pine decandling techniques

Large trees and shohin

Episode 8

Hinoki clump styling - wiring

Visit to japanese restaurant garden

Episode 9

Styling Hinoki formal upright

Day trip kyoto Temples

Episode 10

Japanese White Pine

pad wiring and formation

Identification

Episode 11

Interview with Naoki Maeoka

Styling juniper shimpaku in Bunjingi style

Episode 12

Matching a tree with the correct pot:

Hinoki

Trident Maple

Styling a grafted white Pine

Repotting White Pine

Episode 14

Clump style white Pine

Episode 15 Part 1

Large & Medium bonsai of various species to appreciate 

Part 2

Episode 16

Magnolia

Shimpaku

Episode 17

Minoru Fujikawa - founder of Kouka-en

Episode 18

Show refinement for Taikan-Ten

Episode 19

Bunjingi

Episode 20

Carving and cleaning with power tools

Needle juniper

Red Pine

Episode 21

White pine styling

Planting on a slab

Preparing for high end exhibition

Episode 22

Taikan-ten Bonsai Exhibition

Episode 23

American native bonsai

rocky mountain Juniper

Virginia Pine

Ponderosa pine

American hornbeam

Episode 24

Kokufu-ten overview and sales area

Masashi Hirio interview

Episode 25

Japanese Maples - doing it properly

Branch removal and pushing growth back in

Wiring and branch manipulation

Episode 26

Basic repotting

 

Episode 27

Deciduous maintenance

Pruning, defoliating

Episode 28

Refinement 

Junipers

Episode 29

White Pines

pruning, feeding, wiring, pad formation

Episode 30

Kusomono

Interview with Juan Cruz

Episode 31

Taikan-ten 32 exhibition

Episode 32

David Martinez making a small juniper and an interview

Episode 33

Wiring

White Pine

Juniper

Red & Black pine

Episode 34

Shishigashira maple preparation for kokufu

Hinoki Cypress masterpiece preparation

Episode 35

Trident maple defoliation

Episode 36

Spring techniques for alternate leafing deciduous trees

Episode 37

Black pine styling & repotting

Episode 38

Small clay pot juniper styling and repotting

Episode 39

Styling a very large yamadori shimpaku juniper

Episode 40

Spring repotting

Episode 41

Watering 

And the funnies