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My week at Kaizen Bonsai – A Good One!
This week has been a good one. Having completed more than THREE THOUSAND orders and about TEN THOUSAND parcels since January this year we finally got it all under control and I came up for air, f***ing cold air mind but that's another subject. So, I finally decided that we are no longer importing plants thanks to the governments ludicrous requirements. I just will NOT bend the knee and submit to their ridiculous Gestapo paranoid bullshit. In the future, should they see sense I promise to go and spend a quarter of a million pounds and ya'll can fill your boots. Otherwise I accept the death...
The Irony of My Life.
The irony of my life just now is the fact that my bonsai business prevents me from actually doing bonsai. The less bonsai I do the more ya'll can do because you have the stuff you need. That is unless you buy it of somebody else in which case stop reading at once! Bonsai as a hobby is in for a major shaking very soon as global forces and political bullshit conspire to drown us in their effluent. I doubt anyone really understands the extent to which we are dependant upon imports. Virtually NOTHING we use is made here in Blighty, even the bark we use in our soil mixes comes from abroad now. A...
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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...
Dodging Bullets….
If you have been trying to access our web site over the weekend but to no avail we have to apologise for not being here. Our web host 123-reg decided to blow themselves into oblivion by deleting lots of web sites across the UK. Just to add insult to injury they...
Coventry Bonsai Show
If you had the misfortune to get my attention over the last couple of weeks, which hasn't been easy seeing as we largely stopped answering the telephone, you will know I have been a bit grumpy. However if you had the extreme misfortune to bump into me over that same...
Bonsai Dates for April
It's been a crazy year here so far. I have never worked so hard, we're on our knees, my last day off in January seems a very long time ago now. Sitting here in a waist high pile of parcels and a hundred still to do it seems unlikely we will be getting caught up any...
New Bonsai Workshop Dates 2016
Just put up new dates for our bonsai group workshops for 2016. Places go fast so don't hang around! Here's a recent juniper I did with a friend of ours.... G.
Special Bonsai Coming Soon
It's silly season around here and it's tough to get much done from beneath your avalanche of orders. Not that I am complaining it's just an insanely busy time and I also have to run around buying and moving our new seasons stock too. This year we have a lot of...