A guide to developing your new young tree. INTRODUCTION This is designed to give you some tips to help in growing your new starter bonsai into a great bonsai tree. The suggested methods I have put together here have been used for many years to develop bonsai without wasting many years by doing things in the wrong order and making some basic mistakes that will cost years of growing time. They are intended to help you reach good results in a shorter period of time than it might

Where has the time gone? It's September already and we have been desperately trying to catch up with the work that was missed during my...

JULY 2025 It's been a strenuous year so far. Not just for the trees, but for me too. Many of you will be aware of my hospitalization due...

APRIL 2025 Well, I have not had a very good time of it over the last four months. I caught another chest infection which has really...

Its taken a while but here is a list of Satsuki from the 2014 catalogue. Click on pictures to enlarge. WHITE FLOWER GROUP CRIMSON FLOWER...

Artificial v Organic. Soil is a huge subject and to try and cover every aspect of it here would be impossible. To keep it simple I will...

AUTUMN SALE ON NOW. ends 31st October 2024 As you may have noticed, there is a new tool manufacturer based in China that is making a...

When this Juko satsuki arrived it was already different from the picture I saw when I bought it. It had lost a major branch about halfway...

A few notes on what seems like a simple operation. At some point, we have all experienced this scenario...when your new plants arrive and...

This technique is for creating a tree of around 40-50cm tall. With the proper care here in the UK, it should be possible to get a young satsuki plant to grow a single shoot of a decent length, perhaps as long as 60cm to work with in one season. This is important as it will form the lower end of the finished bonsai and will be needed to thicken the trunk in later development. Potting the young satsuki into an enormous pot will not really help with making it grow faster and cou

It has been some time since my last update on the events taking place at the tunnel. Getting to the nursery and completing all the...

Here is a quick update and some pictures of the cuttings that were taken 6 years ago. Some of the colourful varieties are now showing...

Due to I'll health I'm afraid I have to announce that it has become necessary for me to downsize the stock list and the sizes of the...

The long awaited new satsuki have arrived and I am currently busy cleaning them up in order to get some good photographs. They are super...

Over the last 3 years, I have been waiting for some of the young cuttings and seedlings to develop to the point that I feel comfortable...

There are so many videos etc out there with advice on growing bonsai it can be a bit of a minefield. Far too many are easy to access but...

As promised in the first Satsuki blog here is a follow-up article to cover the early stage of getting a young plant started on it way to...

The season is well under way for treating your trees with Nematodes to kill the dreaded vine weevil. There are a few brands available and...

A review of some of the new range of tools that I can highly recommend. Tian Master Craftsman Series Scissors These top of the range...

Its surprising just how quickly you can achieve good results with these beautiful plants. From a small cutting a pretty good shape and...