The Kaizen Bonsai Blog by Graham Potter
Bonsai Repotting Technique – Not Recommended!
I am a great fan of the oft maligned Chinese elm. Yesterday I cam across a ‘repotting technique’ though I would not recommend it.
Demo’ Dates Coming Up
Over the next few weeks I have a few dates in the diary. We'd love to see you there and I am always happy to bring orders with me and save you the delivery cost. Just let us know what you need in good time. Tuesday 21 June Middlesex Bonsai Society - Demonstration and...
New Video
Following on from my demo' last weekend one of the club members there (Ian) has posted a video. I had nothing to do with it and it's a bit long winded......or is that me who is a bit long winded? Certainly not our usual stripped down production but for those of you...
Demo’ Result & A Dumb-ass Deal
Last Sunday I rolled out of my sack at four thirty in the morning, glugged a cold cup of coffee and hit the road. I picked up a couple of compadres and we settled in for the long run south to a little place called Herstmonceux, your guess is as good as mine regarding...
Demo’ This Week
It's a rare day I leave home. The chain around my ankle does not reach out of sight of my desk. I am constantly asked to travel for demonstrations, often to far flung corners of the world. However being from Norfolk (and apparently an uneducated carrot crunching clod...
Bonsai Tree Avalanche
It's pushing thirty years since I bought my first bonsai tree. It was a serissa, we were at a koi show and it was my birthday. My wife and parents chipped in, whilst the tree was only £30 that was more than any of us could afford back then. Little did we all know what...
Secret Bonsai Stash
My first real contact with bonsai over twenty five years ago was at a little nursery in the backwoods of Norfolk. It was one of those little places where time had stood still for decades and whilst it was actually a rose growing nursery the owner, Andrew, had been...