The Kaizen Bonsai Blog by Graham Potter

Folk in Britain are morbidly obsessed with the weather. Turn on the news today and all you will hear are stories about the cataclysmic conditions. The BBC found a spot of snow up on the moors where some folk who can't drive abandoned their cars and ended up billeted in a school hall. It's a good job we don't get weather like that being suffered in parts of the U.S just now, there would be mass suicides if we did. Here in Norfolk the weather is beautiful, the sun is shining and today I have spotted the first signs of spring. Aconites, snowdrops, daffodils and bluebells. Today I have seen...

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.