The Kaizen Bonsai Blog by Graham Potter
Put an Old Knob to Good Use
Firstly please let me apologise for the lack of posts recently. I have been having a bit of a melt down over the summer. There are days when life gets just too much to handle. Having turned my hobby into an all consuming business, these days I have to resort to motorcycling in order to save my sanity. Thank God for a beautiful summer. So, what's this Put an Old Knob to Good Use all about? Before...
What’s Going On at HQ
It's been a while since my last post. Our workload has continued to punish us all severely. Everyone here has been working flat out since we got back after the christmas break. Catherine has been spending 12 hour days at her desk. Ramon is a broken man and I have...
Busy, Busy, Busy!
It's been a busy year so far. It's always our intention to turn orders around within 24 hours but we are just not making it at the moment so if you are waiting for a delivery we apologise for the delay. Last year was one of our best ever UNTIL the end of August when...
Oak Trees Available For Bonsai
Seems like a lot of folk have been asking for oak trees recently. I had a quick run around the nursery this morning and took a few snaps. These are what we have at this time but should have quite a few more in about four weeks time. Sorry about the quality of the...
Noelanders Trophy 2015 Pictures
Over the last couple of weeks we have been a little distracted with our attendance at the Noelanders Trophy, held in Genk, Belgium over the last weekend. I have been attending this show for at least fifteen years now and in that time it has become one of the worlds...
Never Give Up.
I have reached that age where I face an ever-increasing past and a diminishing future. Doesn't really matter because I can't see shit without Catherine's glasses. However I have noticed there is one very valuable benefit of being older, one readily overlooked in our...
Good Bye My Old Friend
It's been 25 years, near as dammit, since I started bonsai with my first serissa. Those early days were a heady mix of excitement and ignorance that drove a roller coaster of emotions as I summited highs of success and plummeted into the depths of failure. Ignorance...