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After the Trunk Chop: Fifty Shades of Green
This was a comment by my friend Bill Butler on a Facebook picture I posted: “And now, a passage from “Fifty Shades of Green” by Adam Lavigne: I found her sitting on the bench. She was soaking up the...
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Sometimes you need to neglect your bonsai
And all along you all though that caring for a bonsai tree took up all your time, sitting in the garden, babying and doting over it, drinking green tea and eating sushi. It’s not really like that....
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The “Keep Myself Sane” Tree
I finally got the portulacaria I had been working on in the hospital (from the last post) repotted. Here’s how you saw it last: This was how it was sitting in the pot. Pretty straightforward potting,...
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Redesigning a Brazilian Raintree after it goes boom boom
Flashback to December, 2014. I was in the hospital, full of shit (I’m sure there were beans involved), trying to stay alive. I guess there was a mighty windstorm (or my rambunctious 6 and eight year...
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Cleaning a pot but still keeping some of the “patina”: The “Just Made Up”method
We have a pot. You may remember this calcium and lime riddled pot from that popular and witty post: Buy the Trunk, not the Branches. The tree featured was suffering pretty badly from chlorosis and...
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A couple o’ three ficus. Just because, well…..ficus
I’ve been a little more mobile of late, after getting off The Machine. (Welcome my Friends! Welcome…to The Machine!) It’s the same machine I was allegorically referencing in the post A Painting a few...
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Ficus madness. With a little help from my daughter
I’ve been a ficus fool, so many trees, I’m so cool. Bonsai trees will make you drool, so much saliva, it will pool. I have ficus blood all over my scissor tool, white sap everywhere, like a true...
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Cracked pots, wire scars, ficus in focus and some philosophy
I’ll apologize for the rambling nature of this post up front (I promise this isn’t the Saruyama blog, there definitely won’t be any 80’s British, pop/rock video embeds to make you cry….or do the Safety...
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“I’m a real boy…umm, bonsai!”
Earlier this year during, I’ll admit, a period of time where lucidity had been suppressed chemically, I defoliated and unwired this ficus. I can’t tell you exactly when because my sense of time was...
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Whoah there little bonsai, you’re getting so big…..
Ahhhhhh!!! It’s gonna eat me! It’s the mouth tree from hell, the Whomping Willow’s carnivorous cousin, the Chomping Willow……leaf ficus. Actually, it’s this tree It’s kinda wild looking from afar too;...
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A broken bonsai tool
Here’s a short post that might help you out, but is really just to make myself look more awesome. Because I am you know, just ask anyone. Unless your name is Mike. For some reason, all my life anyone...
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Podocarpus? Podo-crazy!
A bucket of podocarpus trimmings. If it could be smoked, I’d move to Colorado and make more money selling it than I’d ever make doing bonsai. Or not. Maybe. I know of at least two bonsai...
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Japanese boxwood redux
Time to trim my boxwood. Way over time actually. It’s late September here in the hot F-L-A. So maybe it’s not a good time for you….or maybe so…..depends on your first frost date usually. I won’t have a...
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Turn that bougie upside-down
This, I believe (I’ll have another beer) is a pink pixie bouganvillea. It just might be a purple one though. It is thornless, and that is what makes me believe in the pink pixie paradigm (sounds...
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One years growth on an Orange Jasmine
Whoops! They almost got me that time. It seems that the wasps have been invading the nursery of late. I’ve been stung, Johnathan and my son Logan too. And they’re not those big, slow, calm ones...
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Just a’buildin’ some trees
That’s a lot of bush. Just by looking at it I’m getting tired. I need a rest already. I’m getting too old to be able to handle a bush like that, really. But, as the song says, “I’m not as good...
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How about a native Florida ficus to challenge you?
Stumbling, sweating, staggering through the saw palmetto brush, trying to reach that oak hammock, shade, the shade just might save me, I trip in a patch of sugar sand, landing face first. Sweat and...
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The Beast, again
There it is. It’s been sitting there, waiting, for well nigh on two years. It’s a collector of spines. It sits on its perch and licks the gristle and flesh left on the vertebrae it’s been hoarding...
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Child labor and bonsai, an exposé
That’s right, it’s like the 19th century for children in my nursery. Not only do I force my own children to pull weeds in the midday Florida heat, repotting ficus after ficus, and trimming thorny...
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This time, I will not fail! #bonsailife
It’s a bush. A big, big bush. It certainly has filled in. I’m going to get Johnathan to defoliate it while I tell you a story. Once upon a time, when hubris was a thing (not Greek hubris but...
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