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making outstanding bonsai pots. This American
bonsai artist, educator and author has garnered
a large following online with his excellent blog,
replete with articles great photos and videos, https://
crataegus.com/blog/. Michael is a popular headliner
and workshop leader at bonsai conventions.
After apprenticing in Japan with Shinji Suzuki,
Michael moved to Portland, Oregon, USA to create a
garden, and while there founded the Portland Bonsai
Village.
Over a year ago Michael Hagedorn and Oscar
Jonker from Bonsai Empire set out to create an
online course to help students understand why we
do what we do in bonsai. The course curriculum is
built around the fundamentals of Bonsai, focusing
on plant physiology as well as on the aesthetics of
Japanese Bonsai design. Shot entirely in Japan, the
course is aptly named the Bonsai Fundamentals
Course. The world-class trees in Shinji Suzuki’s
garden add a rich element to the lecture series.
Now that these lectures are available, Michael’s
knowledge and experience can help us create better
trees. He explains how young trees can be made to
grow vigorously and how to modify and adapt these
Top left; The format for the Intermediate Bonsai Course, teaming up with Bjorn, to techniques and processes for older trees that need
lectures is a proven model, deliver detailed lectures on objective pruning, proper refinement. To give an example of how this course
featuring a live Table of wiring techniques and progressions on some of the sheds light on topics too often ignored, Michael
Contents—finding what you most popular species of trees used in bonsai in Japan. Hagedorn discusses the lecture about hormones in
want to watch again is easy
and fast. If you can grow hinoki cypress, junipers, maples, and the following excerpt: (there’s 22 lectures in total)
Top right; In the free lecture pines in your zone, this series of lectures is for you.
on Water, Michael shows an In March, Bonsai Empire launched the latest series “An example; Hormones
easy way of testing water to of lectures, this time by well-known bonsai artist Hormones help determine plant shape. Buds
determine it’s pH balance and Michael Hagedorn. burst, cells elongate, shoots or roots are stimulated,
explains how minerals in the Michael Hagedorn is an impassioned teacher all because of hormones. Although there are many
water affect plant health. with an engaging style who obviously loves what he hormones in plants, the two most important ones to
Bottom; The equation for
photosynthesis and how does. His first contribution to the world of bonsai know about for bonsai culture are auxin and cytoki-
sunlight affects trees is was under the brand Crataegus Bonsai Containers. nin. These are considered the ‘yin-yang’ hormones, as
explained in detail. An art school graduate, he put his talents to work they work in opposition/harmony with one another.

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