With the rise of Internet discussion forums it is possible to read, if not participate, in a variety of discussion about bonsai. One discussion some time ago dealt with the possibility of doing bonsai without going broke financially. I was disappointed [...]
The two worst scenarios you are likely to encounter in dealing with nursery trees are the mud ball core and layered concentric roots. Both conditions are caused by the way trees are handled in the nursery trade. The first, the mud ball core, is the result [...]
Probably the most misunderstood practice in bonsai is the art of Root Pruning. When I first started growing bonsai, root pruning was not a subject often breached by gardeners as a common practice for growing anything. It was kind of a magic bullet used in [...]
