Shohin through the seasons

LR Presse - Shohin through the seasons

Following the success of his first book Shohin Bonsai, Danish Morten Albek, an international specialist in small trees, returns with a brand new book. With the four seasons as the unifying thread, discover the secrets of cultivating, training and caring for shohin.  

Thus, the book is divided into four chapters each devoted to a season.    

TABLE

Preface.....7

Spring.....11
Spring checklist.....13
Gardener and artist.....14
Tools and uses.....16
Repotting and timing.....17
Making a bonsai forest.....19
Repotting flowering trees.....26
Roots and repotting.....30
At the heart of the root system.....34
Developing a good nebari.....39
Soil.....46
Pots.....47
Watering care for recently repotted trees.....48
Controlled fertilising.....54
Deciduous trees: pinching bud scales.....55
Pinching deciduous trees.....59
Flower control.....59
Conifers.....64
Balanced wiring.....67
Garden Tokonoma.....70
Landscape painting.....72
Spring display.....76
Shohin bonsai display styles.....78
Open spaces – “negative areas”.....83

Summer.....87
Summer checklist.....91
Arranging bonsai in the garden.....94
Watering in summer.....96
Water and life-giving oxygen.....99
Moss.....100
Double potting.....101
Pots, roots and heat retention.....102
Soil and fertiliser concentrations.....103
Summer fertilising.....105
Japanese black pine and red pine.....108
Pests.....114
Flowers.....115
Summer pruning and spring-flowering bonsai.....116
Pruning plan for flowering trees.....117
Photosynthesis.....120
Soft-scale leaf growth on junipers.....120
Needle junipers.....127
Pruning coniferous bonsai.....127
One-flush pines.....129
Summer wiring.....131
Balanced wiring.....133
Flower control.....134
Deciduous defoliation.....136
Midsummer dormancy.....140
Sacrifice branches.....141
Summer displaying.....142

Autumn.....147
Autumn checklist.....150
Aftercare.....153
Flowering and fruiting bonsai.....156
Autumn fertilizing.....160
Autumn colours.....161
Rain.....163
Cleaning.....164
Wiring deciduous trees.....165
Autumn pruning.....165
Japanese black pine and red pine.....168
Time.....172
Imperfection.....174
Autumn display.....175
Arranging the shohin display.....177
Symbolism.....178
Different display styles.....179

Winter.....185
Selecting species.....188
Winter checklist.....189
Winter wiring.....190
Deciduous versus conifers.....194
Dormancy.....198
Overwintering bonsai.....199
Late winter defoliation.....201
Tolerating the cold.....202
Watering.....204
Swapping soil gas for oxygen.....204
Winter fertilising.....205
The shohin display in depth.....205
Display schools.....206
The three-point display.....207
Diagonal placing of similar trees.....209
Shelves for the presentation of shohin.....209
Negative spaces.....211
Displaying bonsai in winter.....212
Practical pots.....214
Pot colour and orientation.....214
Displaying shohin bonsai.....216
What’s the story?.....216
Displaying bonsai trees and landscape planting.....218
The purpose of accessories.....219
Suiseki and the shohin bonsai display.....220
Accent plants.....221
Say no to rules.....223