Aug 4, 2016 | General
Since the beginning of June I have taken over 1500 pictures of trees that are for sale on the website. Every time it feels like I am coming to the end of the task i find another bunch of stuff that still needs listing. It’s taking me forever and has entirely take over my life, I have two new bikes in the garage I haven’t even ridden yet and one of those arrived in the winter 🙂 I am so busy with trees there has not been a moment to put rubber to asphalt. To say we need to shift some trees is slightly understating the issue, I just don’t know where it all keeps coming from. I know to many folk having that much cool stuff is a dream come true but to quote Tyler Durden… “You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you’re satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you’ve got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you’re trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
Today Ramon and I sorted out a few of the larger trees that have been lounging around here, some of them for years. If you need a hernia we have got jus the tree you need! I will start listing these tomorrow but here are a few piccies to be going on with.
G.
Jul 29, 2016 | General
It’s that time of the year again where we have to clear out some odds and ends. We currently have a few auction listings on Ebay, please go and bid on them we are losing a wedge of cash on these which makes me sad 🙁
G.
Jul 5, 2016 | General
I don’t think many people see the world in the way I do, I have some crazy things going on up there. Unfortunately that leaves me at a bit of a disadvantage when it comes to buying bonsai trees and in particular raw material because I, as it were, “See dead people”. That is to say, my over active imagination sees things that a lot of folk don’t because they are sane. Over the years that has left me with a great many trees that are what we might call ‘a challenge’. I have written here many times about the rewards of buying and working raw material, rewards both personal and financial. However still a great many folk are afraid to take the plunge.
As a business I have to keep things moving, it’s the only way I have to pay my wages bills and put food on the table. My penchant for buying raw material has, of late, begun to cause a problem. I know the best way to move those trees is for me to work them into something nice, then they always sell. However thanks to the generous support of all our customers we have become so busy all the time that there is now no time left for working all those beautiful trees. There are about two and a half thousand plants here now and just pulling out the weeds has become a major problem for us let alone spending the long hours it takes to work and style raw material.
So, I have decided to offer some trees at a special price to try and help clear the nursery a little and free up some cash for other things we are up to. For now I have made price reductions on a small range of trees listed under our Yamadori & Raw Material pages. Just scroll through the section and you will see the details.
THESE SPECIAL PRICES WILL END ON AUGUST 5. After that time prices will revert to their original figures. Snooze and you loose. We will be happy to take a 20% deposit on any tree so long as the balance is paid within 60 days and still honour the sale prices. There are reductions here of up to £680 and several trees are being offered at less than cost. The fact is I get carried away sometimes and buy things for much too high a price and so my loss can be your gain.
G.
Jul 2, 2016 | General
It’s been a few weeks since we had new stock arriving. We have had several weeks where more trees are leaving than are arriving and that bothers me so I bought a few bits to keep me in the right frame of mind. Next week we have a large delivery of trees arriving but for now here are a few VERY LARGE trees we got in this week. A scruffy looking lot but we’ll make something out of them for sure.
G.
Jun 20, 2016 | General
For the last twenty-five years I have never had less than a thousand plants in my garden. These days we are moving between fifteen hundred and two thousand plants a year. All told a lot of plants have moved through my hands over the years. To be fair I am pretty crap with names, my mind works in pictures not letters and numbers, even tryping’s not esay fu mi. Very often I get a plant arrive in the hands of it’s owner and whilst I have no idea what it’s called I know exactly how to cultivate it. However every once in a while something comes along I have no idea about.
A few years ago I collected a gnarly old lilac from a spot of ancient woodland near here. It survived Ok and was quickly drowning in weeds and whilst pulling those weeds I discovered this. It sort of grows like a vine and cuttings take really easy. I put a bit in the hedge and it’s doing really well. We have grown a few in pots and they grow like crazy and flower all the time in summer. The stems are hollow and it tends to shed short or cut branches in winter but we are starting to get them quite twiggy. Purple flowers followed by berries that turn red then black. Deciduous and drops after a frost. There’s a definite look of clematis about it
Anybody got any ideas?
G.
Less than half hour, thanks guys. It’s obviously Solanum dulcamara. I’ll never remember that 🙁
Jun 13, 2016 | General
Over the next few weeks I have a few dates in the diary. We’d love to see you there and I am always happy to bring orders with me and save you the delivery cost. Just let us know what you need in good time.
Tuesday 21 June Middlesex Bonsai Society – Demonstration and discussion on how to sort out all the elements of styling bonsai trees.
Tuesday 5 July Surrey Heath Bonsai Society – Demonstration and discussion on carving deciduous bonsai trees.
Saturday 16 July Ipswich Bonsai Society – Annual public show. I will be at the show during the morning judging the exhibits.
G.
