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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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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...
Help. What’s This?
After 25 years mucking about with plants I am pretty good at identifying species. I also have a penchant for unusual types and have got myself in all sorts of trouble gathering up strange trees. However I am currently stumped. I bought this tree off a price list where...