Started yesterday to sift my soil for satsuki's. Opened up a bag and found three sizes. Small, med and large. The larger size i lay on the bottom of the pot for drainage. The mid sized I use to repot the azalea, and the small is a top dressing. My pine soil I use double red line akadama. I Sift...
Dick, I got this quince from an quince expert bonsai here in San Jose, CA a few years back. This quince is a bout 18 years old. However, I've not get it to bloom like when I first got it. I've re-soiled it last spring and I use Miracle-growth fertilizer everytime I water it. Please let me...
hey Slow going in the bonsai world right now so thought I'd show a pre-bonsai Trident Maple Group planting that I acquired this winter. Will post some pics. later after some work and a pot (if I can afford one that big:rolleyes:) Robert
http://www.youtube.com/user/GrahamWPotter Some bonsai demo's from MR. Potter. Their very interesting and he's very good. Good editing too. ...
Monday, I take a class taught by one of the top teachers in America, afectionally known as "Boon". I have chose the pine here in the pictures. I envision a cascade for this subject but it's two most dynamic branches run 180 degrees up the cascade branch and will be challeneged to correct thier...
and it's time to begin removing wires on your pines. This is the time of year after budset that all the remaining energy goes into swelling the limbs and causing wires to Bite in. now is also the time to place maples and other leafed trees from partial shade to full sun for production of fall...
Bonsai Technique for Root over Rock Initially when you view a completed bonsai in the root over rock style, it is difficult to believe that such a thing could exist in nature. But walks through the Cascade Mountains will quickly confirm that this does happen, and often enough to be easily...
It's fast approaching one of my favorite times of year. Nursery discount season:yahoo: :D: Here's a Wisteria (sinen. black dragon), the trunk caught my eye and always wanted to bonsai a Wisteria. The 60% off helped a lot too;) . Robert
I had a email asking about the soil I use for my trees. I'll post it here and tell ya some of my "secrets";) . The first secret is I'm cheap, and not going to pay some nursery $10. for a little bag of bonsai soil. Not when I use a wheel barrel full of it every spring. So I got my sifter out and...
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