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A New Challenge.
Anyone who stops by here regularly will know I don't consider myself an 'artist'. That's all too pretentious for a working class and comprehensive school educated (partly) boy from Norfolk. I just suffer from an over-active imagination and an obsessive dedication to minutiae. At this time of year I get a chance to begin styling work on a few of my literal mountain of tree stock. Few folk have the courage to buy raw material, something I have written about at great length in some of my older posts here. Therefore I have to spend a lot of the off-season making scruffy bushes look like bonsai...
The Tale of Two Maples
This gets a bit long, if you are in a hurry you can skip the preamble.... Preamble. For decades now I have been telling folk they need to learn to read their trees. A great deal of the problems folk experience with cultivating bonsai are related to erroneous half truths they have read or picked up from well meaning but inexperienced individuals. Many of those ideas may be sound in themselves but knowing when to apply them is the issue. The internet has made this situation pretty much critical but many books and some magazines are just as culpable. Added to the fact many of us today are...
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A Couple of Great New Tools Coming Soon
Just had a delivery of these two great tools. They will be live on the site this week. G. Condor Fidelis Neck Knife - High Carbon Steel As it's name implies a neck knife is a small knife that you can hang around your neck on a chain (supplied). It hangs down...
New Bonsai & Yamadori Stock Just Arrived
Trees may be going dormant but here at Kaizen Bonsai we never sleep. It's before first light Sunday morning and having done me emails this morning (about an hour) here I am messing with a blog post. They say 'the early bird gets the worm' but I hate worms, leave that...
Important Bonsai Care Information for Autumn
Here in the U.K autumn is rapidly giving way to winter and it's now time to complete some very important work to ensure your bonsai have a good dormant season. Neglect this work at your peril. When keeping bonsai it is important to follow good nursery practice. It's...
Everybody’s Buying Bonsai
Here at KB we like to think we have the best selection of bonsai and raw material available for sale in the UK. It appears a whole bunch of you agree. We have just had what must be the best few days selling bonsai ever. Sincere thanks for all of our customers for your...
Heathrow Bonsai Show – A GREAT day out!
Sunday 3 November found me stumbling around in the dark at 4am in my keks trying to get dressed without causing too much of a ruckus. The reason for being afoot at such an unearthly hour? I had agreed to attend the Heathrow Bonsai show and because I live in the nether...
THE ‘Ugly Tree’ Becomes Beautiful Bonsai – New Video
We have added a new video "THE 'Ugly Tree' Becomes Beautiful Bonsai" check it out https://youtu.be/YLFv_0nMAN4