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Winter Preparation (Trident Maple)

This year has seen some dramatic changes to my bonsai. The most major of these was moving house and gaining some backyard space. My trees previously were kept in amongst a lush garden. On one hand this...

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Winter Pruning, Trident maple.

Winter is a hard time for me and my bonsai. For the most part, when I arrive home from work it is dark and cold. This makes working on my trees something I only tend to do on weekends. That being said...

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Re-potting, Trident maple.

Spring is certainly around the corner and all my trees seem to know about it. They are for the most part starting to swell their buds. As a result I have been re-potting. I re-potted one of my trident...

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Trident Maple approach graft.

The following trident maple was ground grown by a friend. Since digging it up I have slowly been preparing it for its future life as bonsai. One of the things I wanted to do this year was to set a...

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Apex positions

Before I left for Japan a friend (who runs an interesting blog) asked me to take some pictures of bonsai from the side so he could get a good idea of how the trunk lines and apex were constructed. He...

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Approach graft update.

I though it about time I updated how the grafts I did back in November were taking. If you look back at THIS post you can see the whole process of how I started this graft. The graft is beginning to...

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Spring in the middle of winter?

It’s a strange season. Here in Australia we are in the middle of winter, yet in my garden some of my trees think its spring. Trident Maple budding out. For what ever reason, my trees seem to be ahead...

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Shibui Bonsai.

I have just got back from a weekend at a friends place, Shibui Bonsai.  Shibui Bonsai is located in North east victoria about 3 and a bit hours from Melbourne and specialise in ground grown stock. I...

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Re-potting

Re-potting this year has been a rushed affair where I have been doing it when ever I have time. Mostly this seems to be under garden lights after work. Spring seems to be a little early this year which...

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The grass is always greener.

Sometimes things elsewhere look better than what you might have at your own disposal. This can do two things. One is you can become inspired and in turn try to improve your situation, or you can feel...

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Ground grown stock.

I often hear people saying they wish they had access to good stock and or that they cant find any stock worth purchasing. Often the journey to find good stock can be difficult but there is definitely...

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Root grafting

I have been busy re-potting in the last few weeks and finally managed to get around to doing a project tree that I have been growing for a couple of years. When I first acquired the tree I placed 6 or...

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A summers growth.

Well as is often the case, life has been busy and the blog has suffered. I have been able to find some time today to write a string of posts that should be published over the next few weeks. To kick...

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Project trident 01.

Every one needs a project or two in their collection. I really enjoy project trees, that is tree that are undergoing various processes to transform them into a new style, shape or form.  The problem is...

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Project trident 02

The trident maple below is this years project. I spotted this tree in a friends garden and loved the big gnarly base.  I like the base so much that I have just realised that I don’t have a picture of...

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Spring Grafting

The blog has taken a bit of a back seat of late. I notice that my last post was from back in July last year! Things have been pretty busy since then with moving to a new city, starting a new job,...

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Project Trident 02 – Update

While this tree has had a couple of mishaps since I last posted about it, Project Trident 02 has been slowly progressing. You can read about its beginning HERE. Since that post, I removed the air...

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Repotting has begun!

So it looks like spring is on it’s way early this year with Trident Maples and Chinese Elms in my garden already swelling their buds. This might not seem all that strange depending on when you are...

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Repotting, the projects – Trident maples.

So I have a number of trees that are very much projects which are finding their ways into bonsai containers for the first time. I thought it was worth posting them as much as a record for myself to...

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