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Today we have changed the packaging of our very popular soil mixes. Before I launch into a history lesson let me explain. For reasons I will explain we can no longer ship products NOT in neat cardboard cartons. Sadly that means an end to our infinitely popular 50l...

It's been one of the most difficult weeks I have experienced here at KB. One of those periods of time when I was considering a new career as what we used to call a 'drunk'. HOW has modern life become so terrifying? I have dealt with some serious shit in my life from a...

I was busy replacing some knackered benches over the holiday and whilst clearing up and poking around in the back hedge I turned up an old brake disk. This rusty bit of iron came from an MG/Austin project from the late fifties I did years ago. Not too sure how it...

Being Christmas I thought some of you lovely people might have time for a long winded diatribe so here it is.... A Cautionary Tale We humans are creatures of habit. It may be fashionable to ‘mix it up’ but at the end of the day most of us are at our best when fully...

Happy Christmas to all our wonderful customers, supporters and fans. We have had a simply amazing year in 2019. During the holidays you are welcome to place orders but do be aware Kaizen Bonsai will be closed from 4pm Friday 20th December until 9am 6th January 2020....

Fictional characters are renowned for saying the wisest things. If it were possible to rehearse life we would all be clever bastards, wouldn't we? Anyone know who said "The world don't run on love" ?* Forrest Gump's Mama said "Life was like a box of chocolates, you...

Anyone who stops by here regularly will know I don't consider myself an 'artist'. That's all too pretentious for a working class and comprehensive school educated (partly) boy from Norfolk. I just suffer from an over-active imagination and an obsessive dedication to...

This gets a bit long, if you are in a hurry you can skip the preamble.... Preamble. For decades now I have been telling folk they need to learn to read their trees. A great deal of the problems folk experience with cultivating bonsai are related to erroneous half...

It’s been a long time since I passed a significant watershed in my bonsai journey. I have now been studying and practising bonsai for more of my life than not. That might not be significant for some who started young but I was not a spotty kid. Years ago somebody came...

Thanks to everyone who sponsored me. Our local group has raised around £18,000 and worldwide the Distinguished Gentlemans Ride is closing in on $6 million raised. THANK YOU!   Okay Peeps. It's that time of year again when I make an appeal for your money. Not for...