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New Bonsai Videos (2) Available Now
Finally got my ass in gear and finished a couple of new videos which are now live.
How To Stop Killing Bonsai Trees – Thoughts On Winter Care
This gets a bit long, if you are in a hurry you can skip the preamble…. Preamble - BS for starters Before I get into todays main course please allow me to apologise for the lack of blog posts so far this year. I don’t have a precise explanation for my absence. In modern parlance I feel I have been suffering from what’s known as an acute mental health crisis. That might sound serious because that’s how modern society likes to use language. Back in the days of plain English we would say I’ve been a bit naffed off, fed up or depressed. Yesterday I fell off a ladder and am a bit banged up so...
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Now I AM Going on Holiday
This really is my last post of 2018. I think I said that before but now it actually IS. After this I am going on holiday. Well, actually I am going into the other room to sit by the fire with the dogs and a glass. For me the bonsai year really closes out on the winter...
That Was Fun
2018 started badly with me having to call out an ambulance having all but broken myself in two. An experience that leaves me weak at the knees even now when I think about it. Just as I was emerging from the dark tunnel of that I got flu for the first time in my life....
Before & After Juniper Bonsai
Around here autumn is a good time for me to get some trees worked. This year has been harder than normal because obviously Rammon went on his way and we have also been insanely busy too. I generally spend the autumn covered in dust knocking holes in big deciduous...
New Yamadori Junipers in Stock
It's been a chaotic week or two here. Christmas shopping is in full swing and it appears a lot of folk are getting the drop on spring by ordering soil and pots early too. It's almost shocking how much stuff is going out the door every day. Thankfully we now have a...
There Be Monsters
It's a sad fact we are all getting older. Having been at this bonsai lark for thirty odd years now I can say with confidence that there is a lot less testosterone flowing around the British bonsai scene than there was twenty years ago. Perhaps that's the result of...
All Change at Kaizen Bonsai
When I started Kaizen Bonsai years ago my only ambition was to handle a couple of orders a day so that Catherine didn't need to go out to work any more and I could have a toe in the water of something I cared passionately about. Fast forward nearly twenty years and...