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Early this year I was able to buy me some Habenaria radiata or White Egret flowers (as bulbs). These are terrestial orchids originally coming from Japan. I planted them in a mix of akadama, grit and some orchid-soil I bought in a garden center. Early summer the foliage appeared, and the two last...

I doubted for a long time if I would post this over here. It is naturally not a bonsai, but rather an experimenting. At least, that's how I look at it. And I am also a bit curious what your opinion is concerning this... thing. I have dug out this potentilla some years ago form a neighbour's...

Here some pictures of my accent plantings. Hope you enjoy them.. First one is Japanese blood grass (Imperata cylindra "Red Baron") in a Dan Barton pot. Second one Japanese forest grass ( Hakonechloa macra "Aureola") in an unknown pot. Third one is Leptinella potentillina mixed with...

When looking at professional photographs, I noticed there are beautiful black & white pictures. Or sepia, making the picture look very old. I almost never saw this with bonsai pictures, unless reading very old books or magazines. Nobody ever experimented with B & W or sepia photography, or is it...

I worked on this Taxus today. Not the most stunning starting material, but we have to keep practising, isn't it? It's coming from a car-parking hedge. Many people have stepped on it, and walked over it. It was a shortcut to the village. So I helped out those people by digging it out. (This...

Here's a Scots pine yamadori I have bought from a collector, waiting for it's first styling... About 15 inch high. The nebari measures 4,7 inch on the surface. I love the bend in the trunk, and the old looking bark. A disadvantage is the pretty straigth trunk behind the bend. But I am...

Last year I acquired this stump of a friend in bonsai. It's a Potentilla fruticosa, which was found in a flowerbed near a parking. It's standing in a little plastic bucket for now, and I started cleaning it up a bit. It was pruned back a lot last year, so I was happy to see some new growth...

On the BonsaiCafé forum you can now find the first images of the 13th EBA (European Bonsai Asscoiation) convention in Ostend, Belgium. This is one of the better exhibitions in Europe this year, with trees participating from all over Europe, and a good program... Here are some of the...

This is a Pinus mugo I bought end 2006 from Mr. Polmans' Studio Momiji. It's coming from the French Alps, and I bought it for it's beautiful bark colour, and the fantastic shari.. It's doing well for the moment, but it is a bit to soon to start working on it. Yesterday I removed all of the dead...

Last Weekend our local bonsai club Shinpaku organized a bonsai and Japanese artefacts exhibition. Because I have made more than 200 pictures, I made an online photo-album to share this event with all of you. http://www.bonsaicafe.be/Shinpaku%20club%20exhibition%20may%202007/ Hope you will...

Hi everybody, I want to share some work I did today with all of you... I bought this common Juniper last year in october from somebody who was stopping with bonsai, because he didn't had enough free time to work on his trees. Although wire was biting in on some branches, it looked healthy...

I would like to share a Carpinus coreanum shohin display with all of you. Please let me know what you all think of it. Any suggestions to improve it are of course very welcome. Tree: Carpinus coreanum, height: 17 cm / 6.7 inch. Pot: Yixing Accent planting: Moss in a small handmade...

This is a Bald Cypress I am working on... I found it last summer in a nursery in the neighbourhood. It was about 4,50 meters high when I bought it, and I instantly chopped it back at the nursery to about 60 -70 cm. Wouldn't fit in my car anyway...:D When I potted it, I pruned some of...

Found this website today, so I would like to introduce myself for those who don't know me yet... My name is Hans, I live in Belgium. Started with bonsai 7 years ago.. Made my own website called HV66 Bonsai, where you can find some of my trees. In 2005 I also started the BonsaiCafé website, a...