Advanced Bonsai: Pine Bonsai Workshop

Chicago Botanic Garden

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Elevate your pine bonsai skills with advanced techniques designed to refine structure, health, and artistic form. Learn seasonal practices such as decandling, needle thinning, and energy balancing to encourage ramification, along with advanced wiring and styling methods for creating a refined silhouette and aged appearance. Gain practical insight into timing and long-term development strategies to help transform well-maintained pines into exhibition-quality specimens.

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Get ready to refine both technique and artistic vision when working with pine bonsai species. This class focuses on critical seasonal practices such as decandling, needle thinning, and energy balancing to promote ramification (branching) and maintain tree health. Learn how to apply advanced wiring and styling methods to create refined branch structure, improve silhouette, and enhance the tree’s aged appearance. Emphasis is placed on timing, precision, and long-term development strategies, helping you elevate your pines from well-maintained bonsai to exhibition-quality specimens.

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Refund requests must be submitted to [email protected] 2 business days prior to the program’s start date and time. The registration fee will be refunded less a 15% processing charge. A refund is issued in the form of a credit on file (to be used for future programs).

Refund requests submitted less than 48 hours prior to a program start date are non-transferable and are not eligible for a refund.

Fees are nonrefundable and nontransferable on and after the program’s start date. We cannot refund fees requested on or after the start date of a program or for sessions missed due to student illness or other personal situations.

Registration fees for courses grouped and priced as a series will be considered one program and subject to all of the above guidelines. A refund request must be received prior to the start date of the series' first class session and will subsequently cancel your registration in every session of the series.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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