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Lime Sulphur – A Miracle Solution
Most people involved in bonsai for any period of time will likely be familiar with Lime Sulphur. It’s that grubby little bottle of stinky red stuff in the bottom of your tool bag that’s used to preserve and colour deadwood and dissolve little paintbrushes. Doing that particular chore is on nobody's wish list. BUT did you know that little bottle contains a miracle solution that can significantly raise your bonsai game? Lime sulphur has a huge number of uses and solves a significant number of pernicious problems faced by growers. From pest control to fertiliser, Lime Sulphur is remarkable. So,...
2024 Milestones & Bonsai Videos
2024 Milestones & Bonsai Videos With Christmas madness about to descend upon us all I guess it's that time of year when tossers like me who conceitedly write blogs have to take stock of the year all but passed. 2024 was a year of milestones and some bonsai videos too. Growing up my family weren't ones for making a fuss, birthdays, Christmas etc' would come and go with relatively little fanfare. So forgive me for not being overly effusive but it seems appropriate to at least mention a few significant milestones that both I and we here at KB passed over the last year. I have never been one...
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Black Friday My Arse!
Black Friday My Arse! Just in case anyone was tempted to ask me about "Black Friday" deals I thought, for once, I would get ahead of the game. If you know me you know what comes next so let me step aside for a moment. Here is an excerpt from an email I received this...
Littered With Contradiction
I'm on safe ground here when I say Bonsai is Littered With Contradiction. But then perhaps it's not the trees fault and it's not inherent in the programme. Nevertheless there are a lot of variables and those can throw us into confusion at times especially where an...
We’ve Got Your Back.
Just a quick update on what's been happening recently here at Kaizen Bonsai world headquarters. It's nice to know that when things are uncertain, to quote a modern idiom ' We've got your back', or at least someone has. None of us really know what's just around the...
Little Tommy Opposite
By and large I was a sullen little kid, never happier than in my own company, doing my own thing. I was hopeless at being told what to do and my mum used to call me 'little Tommy opposite'. It didn't seem to matter what my parents had to say I would want to do the...
Per Aspera Ad Astra.
Living in modern Britain is not easy. We have always been a country that lurches from one crisis to the next but at this moment it does appear we are in a state of flux. That makes us feel uneasy and the more bone idle one is the worse the feeling will be. Many have...
Bonsai. It’s All About The Trees!
Warning: Pretentious opinionated bullshit follows! I am not the first to say, of late, that the world has gone insane. To be fair planet earth is just fine and carries on much as it always has done with it’s ups and downs, it’s the bit that we humans inhabit...