My Bonsai Obsession

I always photograph new trees as soon as I get them home so that I have a record of their humble beginnings. Sadly when I took photos of m...

A few days ago I found this Pyracantha at the nursery section of a nearby hardware store. Pyracantha as purchased - January 2019 I sh...

When I bought my crab apple a few years ago it was about seven foot tall with no low branches, so it's taken a bit of effort to get it t...

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...

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

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 ...

I never meant to buy anything. When I stopped at the nursery about 10 days ago, I was just trying to burn a little time before meeting a f...

One of the trees I bought in April as a candidate for Reddit's nursery stock contest  was a rather large Juniper Mint Julep. I've al...

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

It's been four months since I bought my Lonicera   and my little tree is growing like crazy. So much so that I'm struggling to keep ...

As I'm trying to reduce the number of trees in my collection, I shouldn't really be buying more, but sometimes I find the temptation...

I've never been too keen on the idea of grafting bits onto my trees. I like to work with the options they offer me, though sometimes it...