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Life leads us down a winding path on occasion. I was never the most social of animals, us Norfolk folk are renowned for our reticence. However I did not really expect I would end up quite so isolated behind this screen. Our business has been very demanding and entirely isolated me from the world at large. I am one of many folk that work from home. Not in the modern fashionable sense of the phrase, here at KB we really WORK. It's long hours, hard, heavy and responsible work that's thankfully relentless. It might well appear a simple task from the outside but trust me it's NOT! The down side...
Hand in Pocket Time
I don't get out much but from what little I do see, in some parts I understand times are hard. I do know we are all being f****d by our immoral, corrupt and feckless leaders. In fact let me correct that, they are no leaders at all are they? So, it's good to know there are some folk who are doing their bit to help out those most in need. One aspect of modern society that leads me down a dark path of depression is the widespread proliferation of misandry (look it up) in the media in all it's shades. I know the ladies got a rough deal in the past from some quarters. I also know a lot of other...
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New Bonsai Workshop Dates Autumn 2017
Pleased to say I have a few workshop dates for later this year. I came close to having a melt down earlier this year and decided to take a break for the first time in over 20 years. Now I have had a few weekends to myself, ridden a few miles and cut the grass and I'm...
New Bonsai Nursery Pots Now Available
Bonsai is all about growing. Growing is all about the perfect balance between sunlight, air, water and nutrients. I have been saying for a very long time now that bonsai is all about growing, if we had more gardeners and less artists the average bonsai hobbyist and...
Bonsai Techniques – Air Layering Part 2
Name Your Own Price
NOW SOLD. THANKS FOR ALL THOSE OFFERS. Part of the problem with the bonsai business is that, at least as far as plants are concerned, there is a very limited supply. It's not possible to walk into some mystical superstore reserved exclusively for commercial suppliers...
This Could Take Some Time
A few years ago i ran a series of articles in the bonsai magazine telling the story of some trees over their ten year journey from collecting to becoming bonsai. After nigh on thirty years of working with collected trees I am adamant that, in the UK at least, ten...
“Little Strokes Fell Great Oaks.”
It's almost impossible to believe it has been nearly thirty years since I bought my first bonsai tree. A great deal has happened since then including Kaizen Bonsai and an inconceivable number of trees have passed through my hands. One thing that happens from time to...