Bonsai school Japan

[Dario]

My fingers are scratched and rough and sore...from all the wiring. I am not used to wire from morning to evening every day...and copper wire is hard. So I was given a off day today.

Hang in there Neli you are doing a great job...look forward to see pics of your recent work
Cheers, Dario

[Neli]

Thanks Dario. I have tried and requested for material that was never styled for the past two days.junipers go through several different in nature stylings, and I tried to do all of the stages, then you understand better what you are aiming for at the initial styling.the initial styling is not hard in therms of work but very hard in therms of understanding and imagining the final tree, creating a virtual, examining the branches you have to work with, choosing a front...removing the unnecessary branches...the easy part is wiring and bending the branches. At this first stage the tree looks ridiculous and unbelievable, ugly and unless you know how the tree will look in future and what you are aiming for, it looks like it was styled by a mad man or woman in this case. But at this stage it is done under supervision, so I can learn better and everything is explained as to where the future branches will be and how the tree will develop. I am almost done with my studies officially as of today. Might go to a show tomorrow, and might extend my studies a bit longer, but need to decide on that one too.
Ones I reach home, I will be able to put my photos in order and make some sensible posts as to what I have learned.

[Neli]

I have arrived home today. Had a scare in Tokyo of a hurricane, that arrived at the same time i was leaving. Had to spend the day at the airport , since they stopped the Shinkansen, and i was worried they will stop all public transport. I was scared, since they were talking about coastal wave surge...and i thought of the tsunami.
I got my diploma also. everyone from the nursery came with me to the bus stop, and there were lots of hugs and kisses. lovely people!
with all the hurricane problems....and rushing out to the airport, i just unpacked the trees in the hotel, and in the morning just threw them back in the suitcase...no packing...so they arrived in terrible state. around 60 trees, squashed, pots broken...branches broken, but this are all the small bonsai. the big ones around 150 are coming cargo later.

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this is how they looked in the suitcase...one big mess.

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[bamboos]

Gees you really do things on an industrial scale Neli!!.No point asking what you are going to be doing for the next month or three
Steve

[kcpoole]

I cannot believe thay you can bring 60 trees home like that!
I OZ, you probably get arrested trying that!

Repot them all and they will be good most likely

Ken

[Matthew]

I cannot believe thay you can bring 60 trees home like that!
I OZ, you probably get arrested trying that!

Repot them all and they will be good most likely

Ken

Ken
U WILL get arrested unless you declare them then they will take them off you and destroy them anyway. I know we have strict quarantine for a reason but shots like that make me cry alittle. Please post some pics when they are home and potted up.

[Neli]

Gees you really do things on an industrial scale Neli!!.No point asking what you are going to be doing for the next month or three
Steve

Thanks Steve! i shall enjoy most of them for longer than 3 month! He he he! But you never know, my automatic irrigating system called Mwanza is very moody on Mondays, especially if he had a heavy weekend with lots of spirits intake...on the weekend. So I got few spare ones just in case, he is watering with blood shot eyes.
I decided to put all the little ones in the suitcase since they are more sensitive, and bring the larger ones cargo...another 150 coming soon.

[Neli]

I cannot believe thay you can bring 60 trees home like that!
I OZ, you probably get arrested trying that!

Repot them all and they will be good most likely

Ken

Darling, i got all the permits before i left Zambia. There is no need for me to get arrested. But i was never checked....us usual I just had to sing a bit at the airport, but that is a small price to pay. My agent arranged for all the permits in Japan...

[Neli]

I cannot believe thay you can bring 60 trees home like that!
I OZ, you probably get arrested trying that!

Repot them all and they will be good most likely

Ken

Ken
U WILL get arrested unless you declare them then they will take them off you and destroy them anyway. I know we have strict quarantine for a reason but shots like that make me cry alittle. Please post some pics when they are home and potted up.

They are already potted up all of them, just that some pots broke from the transporting. You can import bonsai in most parts of the world, if you get proper documents. Most of the plants in my garden are imported. I have been taking all the permits for years now and importing as long as i follow all the necessary requirements by our government. if you want i can post for you my permits to see. they were all packed very nicely, and were going to arrive safely home, but I unpacked them at the hotel, and due to the hurricane warning, i just had to put them in the suitcase in few minutes. They stopped the shincansen....so i was scared they will stop the rest of the transport too.
If you checked my previous posts you were going to see me mention that I got all the permits. The reason this trees are in the suitcase are because they are too small to travel several days cargo, and the second is the transport here is expensive...airfreight....I had 30 extra kg for free included in my ticket...so why not use them?

[Matthew]

I cannot believe thay you can bring 60 trees home like that!
I OZ, you probably get arrested trying that!

Repot them all and they will be good most likely

Ken

Ken
U WILL get arrested unless you declare them then they will take them off you and destroy them anyway. I know we have strict quarantine for a reason but shots like that make me cry alittle. Please post some pics when they are home and potted up.

They are already potted up all of them, just that some pots broke from the transporting. You can import bonsai in most parts of the world, if you get proper documents. Most of the plants in my garden are imported. I have been taking all the permits for years now and importing as long as i follow all the necessary requirements by our government. if you want i can post for you my permits to see. they were all packed very nicely, and were going to arrive safely home, but I unpacked them at the hotel, and due to the hurricane warning, i just had to put them in the suitcase in few minutes. They stopped the shincansen....so i was scared they will stop the rest of the transport too.
If you checked my previous posts you were going to see me mention that I got all the permits. The reason this trees are in the suitcase are because they are too small to travel several days cargo, and the second is the transport here is expensive...airfreight....I had 30 extra kg for free included in my ticket...so why not use them?

We can import certain species here from certain countries but everything has to go into a quarantine approved facility generally for a period of 3 months min and treated with a fungiside (usually methyl bromide) I think pines are prohibited but id have to check. It seems your countries regs are quite relaxed compared to ours. I have no doubt you did all the required paperwork you required.

[Neli]

I think you have highly developed agriculture and your government protects it well. Pines i believe stay in quarantine for 1 year in Oz.

[Beano]

I bought some special dried fish food for my Oscar on eBay from USA, not available in australia at the time. AQIS seized it. The options I was given were destroy it for free, or send it back to the seller at my expense. Plants would be difficult.

I imported a few fighting fish (betta splendens) from Thailand, but had to do this through a licensed fish importer. Their job looked very involved.

[Neli]

I am sure if you are a farmer, you will appreciate it all, but what I dont get is that in some states Koi are not allowed...and that at one time they wanted to introduce KHV in lakes to eradicate the Koi that bred there being dumped by irresponsible people.