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A Bonsai Wrestling Match
Around here we start re-potting trees around the end of February and stop around the end of November. I am a bit of a stickler for doing things at certain times based on my experience of successful (or not) outcomes. Scots pine yamadori needs to be bare rooted at some point in order to remove the old mountain soil and to get rid of dead material and begin the process of creating a root system suitable for life in a bonsai pot. Yesterday evening once it cooled down a bit we set too on this little chap. The candles are extending in the top of the tree so time was good (August is the other good...
Green Dream Fertiliser Pack Change
The Green Dream range of bonsai tree fertilisers has been a mainstay of the UK bonsai hobby since Colin Lewis introduced the Original product way back in the 1990s. As we expanded the range our primary concern was always the products integrity, value and environmental credentials. To that end we have now changed the packaging for the larger units. Previously packaged in plastic buckets we have now gone to a purpose designed unbleached corrugated cardboard that has a large proportion of recycled material and is easily 100% recyclable pretty much everywhere. Believe it or not this has cost us...
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Very Special Bonsai Material
We go out of our way to find the most interesting and unique bonsai trees and material. I get really fed up looking at boring trees, particularly mass produced stuff. It doesn't really make us any money but it adds a little spice to the daily grind. In the next few...
Summer Bonsai Clear Out Sale
Over the last year we have been overwhelmed by the number of trees arriving on our nursery. In bonsai not everything is available all the time and so when stock becomes available it's prudent to buy it. However we have now reached a critical point and the nursery is...
New Bonsai Video Now Online
Watch our latest bonsai video Pruning Deciduous Bonsai Trees
Bonsai World 2013
Kaizen Bonsai Ltd were very pleased to be able to sponsor this excellent event over the weekend of 10/11 August. I think the organising committee have put together one of the best quality events I have seen in the U.K over the last 20 years. I was told that without...
Muck & Bullocks
Ever since I was old enough to walk I have been getting covered in crap. No matter how hard I try everything I touch gets filthy. If I put on a pristine white shirt I can pretty much guarantee something close to hand will spontaneously explode within half an hour and...
Urgent Advice for a Heatwave
Britain has become laughably pathetic these days. We are currently enjoying a couple of nice warm days, it is mid-summer after all. The media is experiencing heat induced hysteria, apparently we are all going to die horribly.......yawn. Kaizen Bonsai are happy to...