by Lucy Davenport | Apr 12, 2025 | General |
Sometimes a new direction emerges because you are asked a simple question. This happened a few months ago when a caller enquired if I could do a presentation on “Natives for Bonsai”. This idea intrigued her, and it came from reading my website. A novice to bonsai, she...
by Lucy Davenport | Feb 25, 2025 | General |
My lovely maple, Acer palmatum “Mikawa Yatsubusa”, remains on display at Lake Oswego Flowers, where she is happily emerging from winter’s slumbers with new foliage buds— so thrilling to see! If you are in the area, stop in and say hello to proprietor and wedding...
by Lucy Davenport | Dec 27, 2024 | General |
Our work is never done when we care for the miniature trees— for weather is a variant we cannot control. However, in these quiet winter months, if the trees are tucked into their safe place, we can contemplate them in dormancy and consider how we might grow them in...
by Lucy Davenport | Nov 25, 2024 | General |
Thank you, Gary, for including my selection of bonsai for your soft opening of the new shop! The trees are very happy under the lights indoors out of the wet, doing their color changes and strutting their stuff for all the walk-in customers. A new floral design studio...
by Lucy Davenport | Jul 13, 2024 | General |
Bonsai Akira nursery and studio was formed ten years ago. To celebrate this milestone I am offering a discount on several of the trees that have been growing out here awhile. Please inquire for details. The sale prices are reflected on the individual products in the...
by Lucy Davenport | Jan 7, 2024 | General |
I’ve mentioned before that I’m launching a new business— “For Love of Maples…”. Taking new clients for landscape pruning of your precious specimen Japanese maples, conifers and shrubs. This is my eighth year and having a new apprentice enables me to expand my...
by Lucy Davenport | Dec 17, 2023 | General |
I’ve added the first class for the upcoming season to the events tab— please call or email to reserve your spot. Looking forward to introducing our participants to the elements of bonsai— come and join us for this hands on session and go home with a bonsai to love and...
by Lucy Davenport | Dec 1, 2023 | General |
BONSAI (for Ryan Neil— creator of The Artisan Cup) The way they dance, even while standing still This is what moves me. The way they dance and move. The way they sing, even without words, Even with their silence. They sing their praises. They know who they are— the...
by Lucy Davenport | Nov 20, 2023 | General |
When I began bonsai styling I little imagined it would become a career— rather it was a series of experiments I felt compelled to undertake with the trees themselves as my guides. After a few years I began to see the pruning of landscape garden trees as a natural...
by Lucy Davenport | Nov 20, 2023 | General |
There are whole seasons where keeping a bonsai garden is simply work with little reward. The uncertainties of weather, stresses on the trees that were unforeseen, waiting for maturity and full development— many times we are tempted to say it’s not worth the time and...
by Lucy Davenport | Nov 9, 2023 | General |
And so we move into the inevitable drizzle and grey skies that typify our Pacific Northwest marine winter months— graced by surprising moments of clear skies and sunshine midst the haze of fog and low clouds of our rainforest climate. For nurseries like ours, the...
by Lucy Davenport | Oct 17, 2023 | General |
I’ve been thinking for a long time about why bonsai are so compelling to the viewer—both as art form and living object needing care. This month the term I’m playing with is “icon.” As you may know, an icon is a window— or better, a doorway— into the Divine Presence....
by Lucy Davenport | May 13, 2023 | General |
Now is the perfect time to get a Bonsai Tree of your own.
by Lucy Davenport | Mar 19, 2021 | General |
An artist’s dream is for the artistic gift to be fully realized— the resulting creation to be seen and loved into newness by the eyes of someone for whom the presence of the artwork brings ongoing delight. This is not easily achieved— the road from the artist’s hand...
by Lucy Davenport | Mar 2, 2021 | General |
A lesson learned is worth repeating. Once upon a time I could not resolve a design issue, and moved into new territory by choosing a pot that seemed entirely too small for the tree. Voila! The tree was suddenly in perfect balance, and began to dance— by which I mean...
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