My Bonsai Obsession

The tree as it looks today (front view) Everything was going so well with the  Fusion Project  which I've been developing from a bu...

When I visit my various online bonsai groups lately I see everyone's trees getting tons of love during lockdown. Sadly mine aren't a...

I was really proud when I created a mame bonsai from a Ficus Pumila cutting a few years ago. So much so that I even put it on show once. At...

I can't believe it's been four months since my last post. Okay, I guess the fact that it's winter in South Africa counts as an...

When I did my most recent air layer on a member of my Ficus Ingens family, I was hoping it would stimulate new growth lower down the trunk....

Yesterday's post was all about the first of my two neglected ficuses, a tree which had benefited greatly from the development of a vigo...

I hate to admit that the last time I worked on my two neglected ficuses was when I repotted them in November 2015. Because of time constrain...

The saga of my family of Ficus Ingens continues. In 2012 I bought my first Ficus Ingens - very ordinary nursery stock, approximately 3 fo...

The first tree to appear in my blog was this Ficus Natalensis which I grew from a cutting in 2007. Ficus Natalensis - September 2015 ...

One of the benefits of growing trees from cuttings is that they'll be genetically identical to the parent tree. This is particularly imp...

My Ficus Carica truncheon cutting has been doing really well. Until today that is. I got a real fright when I went out to water my trees ...

The Ficus Carica truncheon cuttings which I planted in April were by far my most ambitious propagation attempt to date. An attempt made mor...

It's still early in the growing season in South Africa so my Ginseng Ficus has hardly changed since it received its last chop in July. ...

When last I wrote about my willow leaf ficus , I was undecided on the way forward. February 2017 Although that long branch was never ...