Bountiful Bonsai: Create Instant Indoor Container Gardens with Edible Fruits, Herbs and Flowers, by Richard W. Bender. Tuttle Publishing, 128 pp., $14.95. Available from Tuttle. Interested in growing more of what you eat? Is your primary growing space indoors or otherwise sheltered from the elements? If so, check out Bountiful Bonsai by Richard Bender. Bountiful Bonsai […]
Bonsai Care
The bonsai care category includes topics like Watering, Fertilizing, Repotting and Bonsai Soil. You can also find information about the Pests commonly found on bonsai, and read Interviews with bonsai professionals.
Daisaku Nomoto AMA
Last Saturday, Daisaku Nomoto responded to questions posed via Ask Me Anything (AMA) at Ask Bonsai Tonight. Jeremiah Lee and I talked through the questions with Nomoto along the way and recorded his responses. While many of the posted answers are pithy, a number of the questions generated a bit of discussion. In an effort to […]
Ask Daisaku Nomoto anything
Ever wonder what it’s like to work on bonsai every day? Plus weekends and evenings? On some of the best trees in the world? Now’s your chance to find out. Tomorrow evening Daisaku Nomoto, a bonsai professional living in Miyazaki, Japan, will do his best to answer your questions on any topic, bonsai related or […]
Stealthy pests – root aphid and adelgid
With some pests, no matter how closely one looks at the foliage, no signs of active infestation come to light. Slide the same tree out of its pot and it’s another story. Root adelgid on young black pine roots Root aphids and adelgids are insects that feed primarily on their hosts’ roots. There exist numerous […]
Repotting red pine seedlings
I started repotting this year’s crop of seedlings by stepping up a number of 1 year-old red pine seedlings. Red pine seedlings Instead of making seedling-cuttings, I’m letting my seedlings grow this year as I’m aiming to produce larger specimens. Letting the seedlings grow saved me some time in summer and it yielded some great […]