My Bonsai Obsession

April 2012 - as purchased This is a tree I bought at a local nursery in April 2012. At the time it was about 3 foot tall and straight as...

I know I've written at length about my fig tree , but I thought one last update would be in order before the Southern hemisphere winter ...

An article I read last night indicated that wiring is almost essential to the bonsai process. That's not what I wanted to hear. I try t...

This is a tree I won on a club raffle in August 2015, right at the start of the South African spring. It's the Celtis Africana (White St...

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

It's been nearly four weeks since I removed the air layer from the mulberry tree outside our house. At the time it looked like this. ...

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...