This is the story of a Kevin Willson bonsai collaboration stretching back nearly fifteen years, bear with me.... We all want to live in a perfect world. Trouble is we all have a different opinion of how that world should appear and therein lies the entire history of...
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New Products Now in Stock
New products now in stock. With so many products on our books it's difficult to find new things that are not just variations on a theme. Inevitable some always are because everyone has their own way they like to work. Just recently I was looking through our first 2004...
Mediterranean Species In Bonsai. Pistacia.
As I said in my most recent blog post "Bonsai is not easy". After 30 years I begin to think I don't know s**t. There are just too many variables to contemplate and the British climate certainly does not help matters. Almost every day I am asked for my help and advice...
The Cause of all Our Bonsai Adversities
Growing, creating and keeping bonsai trees is REALLY hard. After more than 30 years I should know. Over the course of those busy years I have seen a few things, done a lot of other things, had countless failures and even the occasional success. There is just SO much...
The Cost of a Good Bonsai Soil Mix
We all like a little grumble. British are particularly renowned for our grumbling prowess. Mention the weather and see where that goes. The cost of a good bonsai soil mix? We all like to grumble about the price of things too. " I remember when ....." that sort of...
Missing The Point – Re-potting Bonsai
When you make that first fateful move and obtain a ‘Bonsai tree’ you take the first step on a journey that just might last the rest of your life. It matters little that your first plant is most likely not bonsai at all. Mine was a sycamore seedling I lifted out of...
Bitchin-n-Moanin Again
So, anybody that knows me, or our business will know we are always busy. Not busy in the sense most of Britain at work is busy. I don't consider 2 hours work followed by three hours of needless paperwork to be busy. We have one of the lowest outputs per head of...
Table Sale !
Seeing as everyone has been shut down for the foreseeable future there are no car boots or bonsai bargain basement, knock it out cheap events going on I figured we could host a bonsai table sale. However that's not what you think. In fact it is just a special offer...
44,000 Hours Well Spent – Growing Bonsai Trees
Starting out in bonsai is a tough thing to do. It’s easy to get it wrong, be misguided, be deceived or bamboozled by the ignorance of other egotistical self proclaimed ‘experts’. The fact that someone has a large following does not guarantee they know what they are...
Upside Down Bonsai
I remember decades ago, around the end of the seventies to be precise, my parents took my best mate Woody and I down to that there London. We were heading to Wembley arena to see Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, a big deal for a couple of clod hoppers from the sticks and...