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Scots Pines – Before & After
I have to sell bonsai stuff in order to survive and sometimes I buy things that just don't move. I can't afford to just dump stuff and move on and besides I was raised by parents and grandparents that experienced war austerity, waste is just not in my vocabulary. To that end I have spent a couple of evenings beavering away on some rather tatty scots pine that have been taking up space for a while now. I hate this kind of first work, it's so coarse and results in a scruffy image but then we have to start somewhere right? G.
Another Delivery of New Bonsai Stock
I have now spent 14 days solid sorting out new stock and it's not even re-potting season yet. Buying yamadori and raw material may well give good value for money but when you have as many pots as we do it makes a cruel task-master. Raw material rarely has mojo, certainly not when the price is low. However with the application of time, dedication, imagination plus a little sprinkling of fairy dust a bonsai tree can slowly be created. Often it takes an experienced eye to see the possibilities and skilled hands to lay the path ahead. No two folk will see the same thing when looking at trees and...
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New Movie – Bonsai Deadwood Refinement Techniques
It's been a while since our last movie post. Finding time to do these is getting increasingly difficult. Our latest offering was shot on Christmas day! I decided to take a look at the subject of refining deadwood since I had received several requests asking how I...
What no catalogue?
Bonsai mart began producing paper mail order catalogues way back in the very early nineties. Back then the internet was in its infancy and this is how business was done. We have continued with this tradition until now. Producing a catalogue takes about 5 months of...
New Movie
We have just finished filming our latest video. This one will cover detailing of deadwood for bonsai.
Happy new year
Now that the holidays are behind us and the new year is under way we would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank all of our customers and friends for their support through 2011. In spite of all the doom and gloom spread by the world's media we have had a...