The Kaizen Bonsai Blog by Graham Potter
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First up please accept my apologies for the silence these last few weeks. This time of year I'm a dead man walking, we're so busy. Getting over a ton of soil products out the door EVERY DAY is killing us all, even my strapping 30-year-old son-in-law. Normal service will be resumed soon 😉 Just time to point out a special offer price on some Japanese unglazed pots I bought far too many of. It's...
Trust Your Instincts
If you stick at bonsai long enough and do enough work there comes a time when the doubt and uncertainty disappears. In relation to styling trees a lot of folk seem to struggle when it comes to dealing with the initial basics. A few years back I was regularly running...
Now That’s a Good Start
I understand it's customary to wish ones friends and family a happy new year today. Seeing as I do not have any friends I thought I should make up my quota of good wishes by doing it here. Along with Catherine I would like to sincerely wish all of our family,...
A Big Fight on the Big Day
Anyone who knows me will know what an unsociable old grouch I can be. If those folk happen to do bonsai they also know I like to take the gently gently approach to creating bonsai. I like to take my time and use as light a touch as possible. Seeing as everyone was in...
Our Christmas Tree
I took half a day off, now it's back to work! Just finished off this sweet little juniper that Ramon got wired a few days ago. It's been for sale on the web site for a while now without a single murmur of interest. We cut a large branch away and the deadwood was...
That’s All Folks! An End of Year Ramble
The old saying goes 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy'. Which, I guess, makes me the dullest of all. Early next year my daughter turns 23 and the last time I went on holiday was two or three years before she was born. I have a few reasons for that, firstly...
That’s Not Bonsai….
When you get through as many trees as we do in the course of a year there is a tendency to become decidedly unimpressed with a lot of it. This time of year I will be very happy to have cleared out all of our little Chinese elms. I started at 4am yesterday packing the...