The Kaizen Bonsai Blog by Graham Potter
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Bonsai Tree Care
The foundation

Bonsai Tree Creation

Bonsai Restoration

Bonsai Technique

Video Masterclasses

Graham's Bonsai Trees
Scot’s Pine Video
Scot’s Pine Video
Bonsai & Bleeding Trees
So what’s all this got to do with bonsai? Bleeding bonsai, or more specifically trees that bleed when they are pruned. Over the years
Recent Posts
New Bonsai Stock Arrived for 2019
Back in the day, when I had more hair on my head and less on my chin I thought life would work out a certain way, probably not unlike my father perhaps. Then I stumbled ass first into bonsai and, given a few years it ran away with me and became a business. I had hoped...
Timely Advice
It's been more than thirty years since I bought my first indoor bonsai tree and began my journey into this amazing hobby. One of the things that has helped me enormously is a funny quirk in my head that allows me to remember all the little details. Even now I remember...
Busy Day At Kaizen Bonsai
Insanely busy we are completely swamped with orders every day. It's a living nightmare just now. Please bare with us, we're doing our best but we don't have any more hands to call upon. Thanks but that really is enough now 😉 G. https://youtu.be/t0Hh_nmS_Ok
Workshop Dates 2019
I have been threatening to do some workshops for a while now. Problem is actually twofold. First I am old, really busy and mostly worn smooth out. Secondly the workshop is actually full of old motorcycles and I don't have a place to put them. However, my sense of duty...
Long Awaited Good News
Folk in Britain are morbidly obsessed with the weather. Turn on the news today and all you will hear are stories about the cataclysmic conditions. The BBC found a spot of snow up on the moors where some folk who can't drive abandoned their cars and ended up billeted...
Scots Pines – Before & After
I have to sell bonsai stuff in order to survive and sometimes I buy things that just don't move. I can't afford to just dump stuff and move on and besides I was raised by parents and grandparents that experienced war austerity, waste is just not in my vocabulary. To...