Bonsai Wire
Plants, art, and experience wired to perfection. Join bonsai artists Jonas Dupuich, John Eads, Michael Hagedorn, Andrew Robson, and Eric Schrader for roundtable debates on hot button topics and interviews with bonsai luminaries. Connect with us at [email protected].
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 72
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
John talks to Jonas about his apprenticeship
This week Jonas sits down to chat with John about his apprenticeship with Michael at Crataegus Bonsai. Check out Crataegus at https://crataegus.com/.
Stories Behind The Little Book of Bonsai
This week Michael sits down with Jonas to discuss everything that goes into writing and publishing a bonsai book aimed at helping people start off on the right foot. 2D vs. 3D teaching, tips for bons…
Jonas and Michael chat about Michael's new book: Bonsai Heresy
This week Jonas sits down with Michael to discuss the science, tradition, and fantasy that inform his new book, Bonsai Heresy. It is a deep dive into the thought process, anguish, and joy of writing …
Chat with Adam Toth
Ever wonder what it's like to be a bonsai apprentice in Japan? This week Jonas speaks with Adam Toth, an apprentice with Taiga Urushibata at the Taisho-en bonsai garden in Shizuoka to learn about the…
Chat with Eric Schrader
In this episode Jonas and John catch up with Eric Schrader and talk about growing trees, working with local natives and much more.
Chat with Bill Valavanis
This weekend would have been the US National Bonsai Exhibition, so to honor that event Michael and Jonas sit down with Bill Valavanis and talk about his years of experience.
The 7th US National Bons…
Bonus Episode: Andrew and Jonas chat about colanders
In this week's bonus episode, Andrew Robson calls Jonas Dupuich about using colanders for pre-bonsai. Enjoy their conversation and please forgive the poor audio quality.We are still working on the wa…
Listener Questions about Deciduous Trees
This week John hosts a question and answer session with questions that were submitted to us via [email protected]. Michael and Andrew join in with expert answers and a bit of banter. We ar…
Bonus Episode: "From the Apprentice". Watering in the summer.
Michael Hagedorn's apprentice, John Eads, shares tidbits from his apprenticeship in a new bonus series. This episode is all about watering, especially in the summer.
We are soliciting questions for a…
Curating a Personal Collection
A roundtable debate among the four hosts about the nuanced decision making that goes into selecting trees for one’s backyard including the power of the single decision, the appropriate number of tre…
Colin Lewis
British bonsai icon Colin Lewis shares his move across the water with Jonas and Michael, including his dislike of demonstrations, how to toss your worst tree, the best way to nab a Japanese beetle, a…
Introductions
Jonas, John, Michael, and Andrew share how they got into bonsai, heckle one another with mispronounced names, state goals for the podcast, and offer an ad from our esteemed sponsor, ‘Patina Buster.’