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So recently, I’ve been looking at purchasing an older bonsai - something that is between 30 and 50 years old. One of the things that I’m struggling with however is the price of some of these...

One of the things I struggled with when I first started growing bonsai was learning to thicken, shape, and taper the trunk of my trees. The process was frustrating, but luckily after a few years, I...

Recently, I’ve been wanting to add a new coniferous bonsai to my collection. Whilst I already have a juniper, one species I finally decided to invest in was a Scot pine bonsai. This got me...

So recently I’ve been experimenting with thickening the trunk of my bonsai tree. It’s worked out pretty well but one of the problems I’m now facing is that there is no movement in the trunk of...

One of the things I genuinely love about bonsai is how even if you have two trees of the same species, depending on the style of bonsai you opt for, you can have drastically different looks. One such...

For the past 12 months, I’ve been trying to add some taper to the trunk of one of my bonsai. The trunk of the tree isn’t ideal for bonsai at the moment with it being way too long and completely...