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The beautiful colours of Autumn
Autumn is truly here when you see the leaves of your bonsai turning from green to shades of yello...
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The Ultimate Bonsai Growing Medium
For as many bonsai enthusiasts you speak with you will get an equal number of bonsai growing medi...
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My Favourite Tokoname Potters
Tokoname in Japan is famous amongst bonsai enthusiasts as it is where so many exquisite bonsai po...
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5 Wiring Tips for your bonsai trees
Being able to wire is a fundamental technique which must be practiced by the bonsai enthusiast. W...
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The Art of Fertilizing
In this second part of the series of "The art of" I deal with the subject of fertilizing your bon...
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The Art of Watering
Watering is an area of our art which I think is assumed you will intuitively grasp, after a...
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Taikan-ten, Kyoto, Japan 2016
On my second trip to Japan of this year I was able to include a visit to the annual bonsai exhibi...
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Makeover of a Chinese Elm - Continued
In this post we continue with the development of an old Chinese elm which began a remake in 2009....
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4 Year Development of a Cotoneaster from bush to bonsai
This blog post follows the development of a Cotoneaster bonsai tree from a rooted cutting, dev...
Old, Imported Japanese Black Pine gets a repot
In this blog a very old and rather large Japanese black pine which I imported from Japan a cou...
How to build a wooden box for an elm bonsai in 1min 42sec, well almost.
In this blog post I will show you how I construct simple wooden boxes which I used to grow col...
Layering a Hackberry, Part 2
Last spring I began to layer an ugly Hackberry (Celtis sinensis) which had a terrible root bas...