The Kaizen Bonsai Blog by Graham Potter
It’s Time To Relax a Little
It’s Time To Relax a Little, bonsai takes time and lots of it.
Happy Christmas!
Happy Christmas to all our wonderful customers, supporters and fans. We have had a simply amazing year in 2019. During the holidays you are welcome to place orders but do be aware Kaizen Bonsai will be closed from 4pm Friday 20th December until 9am 6th January 2020....
Pearls of Wisdom
Fictional characters are renowned for saying the wisest things. If it were possible to rehearse life we would all be clever bastards, wouldn't we? Anyone know who said "The world don't run on love" ?* Forrest Gump's Mama said "Life was like a box of chocolates, you...
A New Challenge.
Anyone who stops by here regularly will know I don't consider myself an 'artist'. That's all too pretentious for a working class and comprehensive school educated (partly) boy from Norfolk. I just suffer from an over-active imagination and an obsessive dedication to...
The Tale of Two Maples
This gets a bit long, if you are in a hurry you can skip the preamble.... Preamble. For decades now I have been telling folk they need to learn to read their trees. A great deal of the problems folk experience with cultivating bonsai are related to erroneous half...
The Trees Apprentice
It’s been a long time since I passed a significant watershed in my bonsai journey. I have now been studying and practising bonsai for more of my life than not. That might not be significant for some who started young but I was not a spotty kid. Years ago somebody came...
Thank You!
Thanks to everyone who sponsored me. Our local group has raised around £18,000 and worldwide the Distinguished Gentlemans Ride is closing in on $6 million raised. THANK YOU! Okay Peeps. It's that time of year again when I make an appeal for your money. Not for...