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New Video Available Now
It's taken a couple of weeks but pleased to say my latest video is now live 🙂 https://youtu.be/sPuKkiSicrw Creating Yamadori with Scots Pine Just in case you missed it I also put this one out there a few weeks ago. https://youtu.be/U9oh3mdsmmY
Put an Old Knob to Good Use
Firstly please let me apologise for the lack of posts recently. I have been having a bit of a melt down over the summer. There are days when life gets just too much to handle. Having turned my hobby into an all consuming business, these days I have to resort to motorcycling in order to save my sanity. Thank God for a beautiful summer. So, what's this Put an Old Knob to Good Use all about? Before you start, NO it's not me, I know I'm old but i'm not a knob.....most of the time. I have said many times that I have a passion for not wasting stuff. If there's a way to make something old and...
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New Bonsai Stock 2018
This week we took delivery of over 250 new trees. Lots of nice Japanese bonsai as well as Chinese, Indonesian and European materials too. I have tried to take a few snaps as I went through all this, sorry they're not up to the usual standard but hopefully it gives an...
How Things Change.
Way back when I started messing with bonsai I suffered serious bonsai envy when looking at the bonsai books I got from the library. The thing that impressed me most was the beautiful junipers I saw from Japan. Their stunning deadwood, contrasting red live veins and...
First Yamadori Delivery of 2018
Over the next few weeks we have our largest influx of bonsai ever arriving on the nursery. By May we have close to £75,000 of bonsai trees and yamadori arriving right here. Today, despite the weather my first stock arrived at 7am. To be fair this is probably the worst...
The Story of A Dog & Two Tools
Ever since I was a toddler I have been something of a loner, definitely NOT what you would call a team player. Most of my early years in bonsai were spent entirely on my own, no mates, no bonsai clubs and nobody pointing me in the right direction. The net result was a...
Looking For Trouble
In the horticultural world the subject of plant pest and disease is often known as P&D which is what I will refer to it as forthwith because I am not a good typist. Over the years my position in the bonsai world has been elevated, partly by some good work, and...
Don’t Know How I Find The Time
Just got back from a week away buying trees. A simple premise really, stockpile money all year, jump on a plane and come back without a penny. Sounds like the best job in the world right? This year I spent three times the price of my first house on hundreds of trees...