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On a recent visit to Scotland myself and my wife called in to visit Craig and Svetlana. I had been in contact with him via email and was told that after 40 dedicated years in bonsai he had decided to sell his large collection. I had seen photographs of his garden on his website but to actually step into the garden and be surrounded by so many trees was fabulous. What made it more amazing was that 90% of his trees are Yamadori with some incredibly old specimens which had been worked on and refined over many many years.

I bought a couple of specimen shohin junipers planted in lovely signed Tokoname water glazed pots that Craig acquired at great expense in America. I was extremely pleased with the quality of the trees I bought and at an excellent price, I know I would have paid much more at a bonsai nursery. I also bought a small Suiseki from his extensive collection which he had collected from many of his exotic trips around the world.

Anyone buying from Craig will get show quality trees at very good prices and Craig and Svetlana's wonderful hospitality was the icing on the cake.

Chris & Jeanette Wainwright, Yorkshire, UK September 2011

List of Bonsai in the Coussins Bonsai Collection August 2011 On a recent visit to Scotland myself and my wife called in to visit Craig and Svetlana. I had been in contact with him via email and was told that after 40 dedicated years in bonsai he had decided to sell his large collection. I had seen photographs of his garden on his website but to actually step into the garden and be surrounded by so many trees was fabulous. What made it more amazing was that 90% of his trees are Yamadori with some incredibly old specimens which had been worked on and refined over many many years. I bought a couple of specimen shohin junipers planted in lovely signed Tokoname water glazed pots that Craig acquired at great expense in America. I was extremely pleased with the quality of the trees I bought and at an excellent price, I know I would have paid much more at a bonsai nursery. I also bought a small Suiseki from his extensive collection which he had collected from many of his exotic trips around the world. Anyone buying from Craig will get show quality trees at very good prices and Craig and Svetlana's wonderful hospitality was the icing on the cake. Chris & Jeanette Wainwright, Yorkshire, UK September 2011
Shohin These are some of the Shohin and the size range is between 15 to 30 cms Please note that there are more trees than are shown here.
Taxus Yamadori in training for 5 years £500 Taxus
Ulmus £130	Ulmus £150
Taxus £175
Itoigawa Juniper £300
Kingsville boxwood (Buxus Microphylla Compacta) £195	Kingsville boxwood (Buxus Microphylla Compacta) £175
Shishigashira Acer £450	Shishigashira Acer £450
Shishigashira Acer 50 years old £500	Birch Betula pendula Very old collected 1990 just pruned £125
Cotoneaster and Malus in Antique Pot Japanese Tree £550	Acer buergirianum Japanese Shohin £325
Cryptomeria Japonica Nana 20cm One off Walsall Pot £350	Cryptomeria Japonica Nana 22cm Ian Baillie Pot £300
Cedrus Japonica nana £225	Premna Japonica £400 Duffett Pot
Ligustrum Vulgaris Privet 51x43cm £325
Acer Palmatum Kashima £300
Taxus bacata Yamadori 11 inches tall. In training for five years. Walsall Pot in a grey glaze designed for this Shohin £600
Buxus Sempervirens £140
Acer Buergirianum Japanese Shohin in Duffett pot £650	Potentilla Flowers well £175
Rhododendron indicum £450
More Shohin pictures here: http://www.bonsaiinformation.com/shohin.htm
Mid Size Bonsai sizes from 48 to 80 cm
	Nepal Rhododendron, collected as a cutting in Nepal 1960.82X57 Special pot and glaze by David Jones in traing for 25 years £1200
Juniperus Grey Owl 52x48 Age 40 YIT 3 £800 Pot Yixing	Larix Kaempferi, Yamadori collected 2000 In training 10 years 74x50cm Pot Yixing £450
	Larch 71x55 collected 1990 YIT 15 Pot Yixing £550
Juniper Media Blauw 86x39cm 35 years Years in Training 25 Pot Yixing £1200	Juniper Media Blauw 86cm YIT 20 Pot Noel Plowman New Zealand £2250
Chamaecyparis Nana Obtusa globusa, Hinoki. 48x48cm Trunk width 24cm Age 40 YIT 5 £950 Pot Tokoname	Zelkova serrata 20 years from seed. 62x51cm Bamboo Glaze pot from China £450
This is a Ligustrum sinenses that was originally grown as a Bonsai 50 years ago. I planted this over a rock and have been developing the bonsai as a cascade for 30 years. Pot is Yixing £1200

White pines Pinus parviflora Shohin I grafted onto black pine pinus thunbergii stock in 1985. The stone is from Ireland and is very rare as it is petrified mudstone. Wonderful caves in this stone. The pines were planted in 1995. The special stone allows the roots to grow into it. Featured in my first book £2750
Exhibited in 2010 before restyling in July 2010
Juniperus Old Gold Grown as a garden tree in 1955. Bought from Salvatore Liporace in 1998. Initially styled as a Bonsai by Gary Marchal from America in 2002 and then completely restyled by Peter Foele in 2009. £1500 84x50
Pinus Sylvestrus Yamadori 93x65cms £950	Pinus Sylvestrus Yamadori. These are all very old trees although small. Most are aged between 40 and 70 years. 95x105cms £1300 recently styled as a Yosue from collected trees in 2005
	This is a large trunk Ligustrum Privet. 77x53cms Very dense ramification £1400
Acer palmatum Deshojo August 2011 Excellent ramification. 74x50cm £1750	Acer Palmatum Deshojo (2009)Spring it goes this colour in Spring and red in Autumn The ramification is now a great deal more developed since then as can be seen on the left
Large old Betula yamadori. Collected in 1980 Just been pruned hard to develop better ramification. 110x95 Very big nebari into the trunk 14cm £800	Pinus Densiflora Red Pine. 34x50cm Age 55 YIT 15 £800
Zelkova serrata grown from seed 1975. 36 years old. In training 25 years Excellent nebari trunk 8cms. £1300 Please note that there are more trees than are shown here.	Rare Scottish miniature Birch Betula Nana Age 60 YIT 10 excellent nebari. It as just been hard pruned.£450
Zelkova grown from seed. 1980. Very dense ramification. 69x48cms £1100 Please note that there are more trees than are shown here.	Lonicera Nitida 50x55 cms £400
Juniperus Squamata Meyerii. 45 years old in training 4 years 105x95cms. Pot Tokoname training in Chinese Welcome style £800	English Hornbeam Field grown. Age 20. YIT 1 Hand made Brian Allbright Pot £450
Juniper Communis Yamadori Age 70 YIT6 65x 50 £1200	Korean Juniper twist and shari. 70x50 Pot hand made Yixing £800
Juniper Grey Owl 84x50 55 years old In training 3 years £700 The main shape has been done and the foliage is being developed to get denser ramification.
Large Bonsai Please note that there are more trees than are shown here.
'Dancing Dragons' Twin trunk Pinus Sylvestrus Yamadori 141x126cm £2750 Age 300+ YIT 10-It was repoted into this shallower pot in 2009 therefore it has been left for another two years to let the foliage to grow free to get vigour. The collection and history of this tree is in my Bonsai books Please note that there are more trees than are shown here.
Taxus cuspidata Yamadori 86x67cm Age 150 YIT 3 £2500	Please note that there are more trees than are shown here.
2011-pinus mugho Age 400 YIT 10 £2750 The dead wood large jin is attached to the base of the pine to give stability to the tree. The pot was made by Alan Harriman and the glaze reflects the mountains from which this tree came. We call this the Tokugawa and Alan made the three leaf crest of the Tokugawa Iyeasu on each side at the base which acts as additional drainage holes.
	This is how I bought this Yamadori from Salvatore Liporace in 1999
Larix Kaempferi From Seedlings 1987 Planted in 1987 and apart from year one the entire tree has never been wired only pruned to shape. The ramification is very good. £3500. The pot is a hand made Tokoname, Japan originally owned by Peter Adams and sold to me for this group in 1988

Pinus Sylvestrus Yamadori 140x80cms Trunk 8cms £1100	Pinus Sylvestrus Yamadori 110x41 Pot -Tokoname £1300

1996 2006 Pinus Sylvestrus Yamadori collected in 1979 Scotland. First styled by John Yoshio Naka in 1984 at my garden and he gave this tree the name 'Big John'. Then worked on by Peter Adams and Craig Coussins from 1984 to 2006 and finally by Peter Foele from 2006 to date. Pot by Alan Harriman £7500

	Please note that there are more trees than are shown here.
	Yamadori Pinus Sylvestrus 150x71 - Trunk 18cm £1500

Garden View
June 2011	August 2011
June 2009
Summer 2010; Joy and Colin Morton visited me last year. Joy is one of New Zealand's leading Bonsai Masters