My Bonsai Obsession

It's been almost a year since I published my last blog post. The pandemic has been bad for my motivation and my blog hasn't been the...

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...

An update on the shrinking Juniper . When I last wrote about this tree I was already concerned about its survival after the harsh treatmen...

The internet is full of stories of dead Juniper mallsai, many of them victims of the mistaken belief that they can be kept indoors. This is ...

No, I don't keep any of my trees indoors. I learnt a long time ago that even trees which can survive in my house will never thrive ther...

In October 2007 I bought a small Trident Maple at our club's annual show. I wasn't a member back then, but that was the day I signed...

"Cactus" as purchased When I bought my so-called cactus (since identified as a Pachypodium Saundersii ) in the spring of 2015 ...

When I shared my post about my braided tree on Facebook recently, a friend criticised me for being too hard on myself. That was never my in...