My Bonsai Obsession

I've been very slack with updating my progress on my trees over the last few years, and especially since Covid arrived on the scene. For...

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...

In August 2017 I wrote a post about unsuitable material for bonsai . Most of the trees I discussed in that post were trees I'd grown fro...

Last Saturday I decided to attend a meeting at Midway Bonsai Society  after hearing that a young member of Eastern Bonsai Society (EBS)  - ...

When someone at a bonsai workshop advises me to chop trees back to leafless stumps, I'm often reluctant to do it. Although I've had ...

Some sloppy wiring a year ago reduced my healthy little Juniper Procumbens Nana to half a tree. August 2018 Thankfully eight months ...

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....

Browsing through the Reddit bonsai group  there are always a lot of posts from newbies with their first tree, and that tree is often a Junip...

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...