The Kaizen Bonsai Blog by Graham Potter
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New Bonsai Videos
New Bonsai Videos. 7 months to the day since my last blog post. I know how many of you lovely folk appreciate these posts and so all i can do is apologise for my absence.
Base Dressing Fertilisers & Bonsai
Learn about the value of adding nutrient products to bonsai soil at repotting time. The value of this technique is often misunderstood but should be universally adopted.
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Recent Posts
The Same But Different
By far my most successful academic subject at school was English. It's hard to associate me with any academic pursuit other than carrot crunching and clod-hopping, especially if you have heard me speak. My brain just can't keep up some times. However I DO consider...
New Video Available Now
It's been a very productive few weeks around here (A NEW VIDEO!). There's a great deal going on in preparation for the spring. Organising and sorting out the dozens of tons of products we sell through the spring period typically starts in June thanks to manufacturing...
New Video Available Now
It's taken a couple of weeks but pleased to say my latest video is now live 🙂 https://youtu.be/sPuKkiSicrw Creating Yamadori with Scots Pine Just in case you missed it I also put this one out there a few weeks ago. https://youtu.be/U9oh3mdsmmY
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...
Enough Already!
It's amazing to me these days how everybody knows everything about everyone. Seems anyone with a working mouth is an expert on most everything and the affairs of everyone. However in the case of what I get up to that's evidently not the case. I get fucked right off by...
Waste Not, Want Not
As a young lad I was lucky enough to have some wonderful grandparents that were influential throughout my formative years. Waste not, want not was a phrase I heard regularly. On my fathers side my grandad served in the merchant navy and ended up in the water at least...