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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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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...
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...