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Japanese Maple Bonsai Pruning Video – New!
So, that being the case I thought it was high time I put together some information on the aforementioned in video form and so here is YET another video, i’m really on a roll at the moment.
Graham & Kevin Willson’s First Bonsai Creation Collaboration
Well it’s taken me the best part of three long weeks but the latest bonsai video is now available online completely free because I am such a lovely generous philanthrope
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Break My Heart
For probably the first time ever we are having something of a sale. We are so rammed with new stock this year that we are severely struggling to find space. Therefore we have decided to cut prices on some very nice raw material and bonsai that we hope to find new...
A Bonsai Wrestling Match
Around here we start re-potting trees around the end of February and stop around the end of November. I am a bit of a stickler for doing things at certain times based on my experience of successful (or not) outcomes. Scots pine yamadori needs to be bare rooted at some...
Green Dream Fertiliser Pack Change
The Green Dream range of bonsai tree fertilisers has been a mainstay of the UK bonsai hobby since Colin Lewis introduced the Original product way back in the 1990s. As we expanded the range our primary concern was always the products integrity, value and environmental...
A Tale of Flowers & Friends
No ‘bloke’ would admit to owning a bonsai tree just because he liked the flowers. I know we are all supposed to have our radar tuned to ‘sensitive’ these days but bonsai, in many circles, remains a macho sort of pastime for ‘real men’. I was bought up in a place where...
Another Big Scots Re-pot
Scots pines are coming along early this year. I'm not normally troubled by them until the beginning of May, but this year we are definitely early, probably spurred on by last summers good weather and a mild winter here. This big lump arrived here about four years ago....
Get The Dirt Out
I have spent most of the year so far bitching about not re-potting bonsai or at least not re-potting too often. The whole notion of Bonsai trees and free draining soil seems to be one of the top mis-understood aspects of bonsai tree cultivation but I'll save that for...