The Kaizen Bonsai Blog by Graham Potter
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Two Half Heads are Better Than One!
Two Half Heads are Better Than One! Creating bonsai takes a really long time. It also takes a long time to figure out exactly how to do it so if you are starting out TODAY assume it will take twenty years to figure out the basics
On A Roll – Yet Another New Video.
On A Roll – Yet Another New Video.
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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...
44,000 Hours Well Spent – Growing Bonsai Trees
Starting out in bonsai is a tough thing to do. It’s easy to get it wrong, be misguided, be deceived or bamboozled by the ignorance of other egotistical self proclaimed ‘experts’. The fact that someone has a large following does not guarantee they know what they are...
Upside Down Bonsai
I remember decades ago, around the end of the seventies to be precise, my parents took my best mate Woody and I down to that there London. We were heading to Wembley arena to see Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, a big deal for a couple of clod hoppers from the sticks and...