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Ho! Bloody Ho! It’s Christmas!
Ho! Bloody Ho! It's Christmas! So, here we are at the end of another year pretty much, just the excesses of Ho! Bloody Ho! It's Christmas! and new years to endure before we launch into 2024 filled with hopes and dreams. I have never been one for 'marking' days. These so called high days come and go and I genuinely could not care less, i don't even celebrate my own birthday. However I know normal folk like to mark such occasions which is fine by me, knock yourselves out, quite literally if you want too. Ho! Bloody Ho! etc'. I guess there's merit in taking a look back over the last year even...
Busy Few Weeks at Kaizen Bonsai & Video.
You’ll guess from the title of this post that it’s been a Busy Few Weeks at Kaizen Bonsai. Not that we have been selling much particularly, just enough to keep the wheels on.
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Crapshoot Pays Off.
I know very well that most folk have a great deal of difficulty in bonsai when it comes to sorting out the way forward for their raw material. A few people are seemingly blessed with a sixth sense when it comes to such issues. I have no answer for this but I do know...
Summer Time Special Rant
A lot of people tell me they like my regular rantings posted here. I like to keep them related to bonsai but this time not. I got very angry recently and as I am weird I just sat down and typed. I guess that's better than going out and breaking heads. So here's my...
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...