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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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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...
Noelanders Trophy 2016
Just got back from our annual gruelling, but ultimately rewarding, trip to Belgium for the Noelanders Trophy. Too many years have passed by with us visiting this event but it never ceases to surprise in one way or another. This year the buzz around the trade was a...
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...