The Kaizen Bonsai Blog by Graham Potter
Graham Potter’s Big Weekend.
Graham Potter's Big Weekend. First up let me apologise for the lack of posts recently. Summer's a funny time here for many reasons and this one has been unusually funny (not) for all the wrong reasons. My trees started off the year raring to go and by end of February buds were breaking left and right. Then by the time we got to May (which is our most significant period of activity in the growing...
Mediterranean Species In Bonsai. Pistacia.
As I said in my most recent blog post "Bonsai is not easy". After 30 years I begin to think I don't know s**t. There are just too many variables to contemplate and the British climate certainly does not help matters. Almost every day I am asked for my help and advice...
The Cause of all Our Bonsai Adversities
Growing, creating and keeping bonsai trees is REALLY hard. After more than 30 years I should know. Over the course of those busy years I have seen a few things, done a lot of other things, had countless failures and even the occasional success. There is just SO much...
The Cost of a Good Bonsai Soil Mix
We all like a little grumble. British are particularly renowned for our grumbling prowess. Mention the weather and see where that goes. The cost of a good bonsai soil mix? We all like to grumble about the price of things too. " I remember when ....." that sort of...
Missing The Point – Re-potting Bonsai
When you make that first fateful move and obtain a ‘Bonsai tree’ you take the first step on a journey that just might last the rest of your life. It matters little that your first plant is most likely not bonsai at all. Mine was a sycamore seedling I lifted out of...
Bitchin-n-Moanin Again
So, anybody that knows me, or our business will know we are always busy. Not busy in the sense most of Britain at work is busy. I don't consider 2 hours work followed by three hours of needless paperwork to be busy. We have one of the lowest outputs per head of...
Table Sale !
Seeing as everyone has been shut down for the foreseeable future there are no car boots or bonsai bargain basement, knock it out cheap events going on I figured we could host a bonsai table sale. However that's not what you think. In fact it is just a special offer...