My Bonsai Obsession

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...

At their most recent meeting one of my bonsai clubs (I now belong to two) had a fascinating speaker, Hennie Reyneke, who is well known for h...

I hate to confess that I've totally neglected my first lonicera , styled in November 2017, then changed a bit after receiving some bad a...

When I entered Reddit's Nursery Stock Contest back in autumn, I knew that it was going to be a lot more challenging for me than it was ...

After several weeks of searching for a candidate succulent to create a mame bonsai, I was starting to think that I wasn't going to find ...

Despite my doubts about my ability to create a decent looking bonsai tree from nursery stock during the South African winter, I was deter...

I shouldn't be buying more trees right now. Well not unless they're really special anyway. I certainly shouldn't be buying young...

One of my early posts, entitled " I Like Small Trees ", was about a tiny Ficus Pumila bonsai which I grew from a cutting. Nove...

Over the years I haven't had a lot of success with flowering trees. One of my early purchases was a Bougainvillea "Smarty Pants...