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Featured Website today is my South African cousin,
Justin Hervey's new Art site:
www.justinhervey.com
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Big John: John Yoshio Naka first came to the
UK for a Tour in 1984. Craig filmed the entire tour with a Video company
and then Craig spent 10 weeks editing each of the four hours into one
hour films. Originally sold back in the 1980's the Videos sales soon
collapsed because of wholesale copying by clubs, societies and other
people. Theft in other words. the money that FoBBS was supposed to
get was quickly diluted by these individuals. These films are now being
presented as DVDs and will be sold to aid Federation of British Bonsai
Society Funds. With some hi Tec marking we will hopefully be able to
reduce this kind of Piracy theft. One venue, Edinburgh was never shown
before and this will form part of the DVD set.. During 1984 Naka san
visited Edinburgh where Craig hosted him for workshops as well s the
demo. Naka san worked on this Scots pine and this was named after him
and called , 'Big John'. From there on in Peter Adams and Craig (shown
here) worked on the tree until 1999. A story page will soon be on
this website of its development. Big John is one of the most famous trees
in the UK because of its connection with the late John Yoshio Naka. Photo taken at John Hanby's Newstead Bonsai Exhibition 2008. During late 2008 and early 2009 I am restyling the hanging section by removing excess foliage and defining the angle of the cascade. The scroll is of two eagles flying over mountains. The accent is a Scottish Rowan Mame grown from seed and now 15 years old. CLICK ANY ITEM TO GO TO THAT PAGE |
During Early 2008, my friend, Yumiko Hirohama from Nara came to visit me with her mum. Yumiko is a teacher in Kyoto and a student of Buddhist architecture and Japanese Roofing Tiles. Yumiko has been my guide in Nara in 2006 and 2007. Yumiko is standing front of some of my Yamadori. Big John is on her left |
  Featured site today is Alba Bonsai in Scotland A student of Danny Use of Gingko and the Kawabe School of Bonsai, Peter was assistant to Danny for some time before coming to the UK. Peter Foele now lives in Scotland and maintains some collections including my own. I rate him highly.
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 Portacularia-Jim Smith BONSAI MASTERCLASS My new Book has now come out in North America, Europe and Australia . You can get this through Bonsai nurseries, fine booksellers, Stone Lantern and Amazon and other Internet Sellers. I also look at the roll of gardens and how to display your bonsai and Penjing in your garden |
 Building my Garden-The Bonsai and Penjing Garden: My Chinese style garden being created. The fences were made in China by my friends company (Potsforbonsai.com) and he supplies these all over the world and in Japan. This page is image intensive and may take a couple of minutes to open folks.
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Pathway Page Ideas for your garden  The Inuit: A new Suiseki I discovered in Alaska. A young Inuit covering her mouth with her hand dressed in a fur lined coat as she slips into the ice. The Suiban was made by Dan Barton and the special glaze sets off this scene perfectly: click for bigger picture CLICK ANY ITEM TO GO TO THAT PAGE
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In memory of the great Saburo Kato
May 15, 1915 – February 8,
2008
The chairman of
Japan Bonsai Association, at his Mansei-en Bonsai garden in Bonsai Village Omiya, Saitama
Prefecture
with a copy of Craig's new Book
Bonsai Masterclass exchanged
for a
copy of the recently published
Mansei-en Book -November 2006. Always happy memories of the Kato family and
their great friendship and kindness.
Craig first worked with Saburo's son Hatsuji Kato at the inaugural
Russian Bonsai Convention in 1992 which
Craig helped to organise.
Craig was a regular teacher to the Moscow Bonsai Club which was
under the direction of Tamara Belousova
Craig visits Japan every year for business and inspiration.
My logo is of a Trident I worked on for a number of years after
getting
it from Peter Adams in 1980 and
which we called the Slug because when
without leaves the bonsai
looked like a rearing slug. At the time we
were
poking fun at growers who labelled , sometimes mediocre, bonsai
with
grandiose names such as 'Crane Flying through Bamboo' etc.
The
Slug was featured in my first book, Bonsai for Beginners. I
sold this
tree in 1989. I had the opportunity to get it back from a friend during 2005
and so it finally comes home. I will be restoring this wonderful trees
ramification
over the next three years and will feature that on this website.
This is a 198 page plus website.
Links are also internal from specific pages of interest.
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would like a reciprocal link, Over 5000 visitors a
week visit this
website which has over 188 pages.
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Craig
Coussins Scrolls for the Tokonoma and home
