It's possible to enrol now.
The brand new
Bonsai Intermediate Course at Bonsai Empire with Bjorn Bjorholm
The
Bonsai
beginners Course at Bonsai Empire
(http://www.bonsaiempire.com/)
was a great success. Obviously it only covered quite basic
subjects
and many asked for more advanced information. Here it is now.
I
was asked to go through this and write about my impressions.
After I
found out how voluminous the course is with 24
sub-sections I fist decided to only briefly browse through it.
And
then I set and watched the whole thing for a couple hours. While it is probably
fair to call me quite advanced this
intermediate course still interested
me enough and taught me a few things. Some I will apply in my
future
work. While I do see a few tings
differently than stated in this course it is always very
interesting
and important to listen to alternative ways. In the end the long
term
results decide whether a certain way of doing things is good and
whether it is possibly better than others. The state of the
trees
shown speaks
for
itself and is
proof enough that one better listens to what is being stated.
This experience
also
shows to me how much more one can learn from a structured and
thought
through course than from the standard demos and workshops. While
it
may be interesting and entertaining to watch demonstrations I
think it is essential that in addition formal teaching must come
in to
understand fully what's going on and apply it in your garden. This
Intermediate Course is the first step for this understanding.
I can only
recommend
to everybody who is serious about bonsai or who thinks of becoming
serious to enrol. This is so much better than most of the
'education'
we get on the net and so much more comprehensive than the
education
we normally get with standard demonstrations and workshops. The
quality of the videos is excellent and to enjoy the most
outstanding
trees shown is worth the course already.
But one must not
think that after this course you know it all. This is information
about how iand what is done with already well established old
Japanese bonsai material. It is about maintaining your collection
of
old Japanese trees and about resurrecting slightly neglected
bonsai.
But there certainly is more that we want to be covered.
After this one we
hope for the Advanced Course. And also for more information abut
artistic aspects of styling a tree from scratch as well as
devlopment
of material which comes ftom nurseries or which was collected in
the
wild. Eventually we should also get more information about
American
And European species.
