My Bonsai Obsession

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 ...

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....

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 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...

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...

My last post inspired a bit of discussion among my Reddit readers, some of whom were insistent that one can chop trees below buds. When I ...

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...

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...

This little Ficus Natalensis has far exceeded my expectations in terms of the progress it made this summer. When I wrote about its second ch...