My Bonsai Obsession

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...

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 ...

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

Inspired by a recent discussion at Reddit. I've said before that I'm not a huge fan of succulents for bonsai, largely because I f...

Although I've been known to do a trunk chop from time to time (with mixed results), when I chop my trees I often err on the side of cau...

So things didn't quite go as planned. Although I managed to  sell some trees at last weekend's show (my two best Junipers among them...

In November 2015 I wrote about the succulent cuttings I was trying to propagate from some broken branches I found in the garden. I should h...

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

Although I was anything but an enthusiastic gardener as a child, I have clear memories of wanting a cactus. My parents very nearly bought me...

We've had some large succulents growing in a rockery in our garden for as long as I can remember. The crassula I repotted recently star...