KEY Bonsai Tasks for Feb / Mar

5 Things happening right now: Three days ago I uploaded this video to YouTube, and guess what? I have done nothing from that long list of tasks! The wind has been howling around the bonsai ...

Repotting & Root Pruning a Chinese Elm

by Xavier Martinez

26/01/2024

Chinese Elm Repot – 2018 Through a series of photographs and short notes I will take you through the repot and root prune process used for one of my Chinese Elms in Spring 2018. This ...

Potting your collected Yamadori

by Xavier Martinez

26/01/2024

How much roots do I cut off a collected tree? In Part 2 of this Bonsai Collaboration I root prune and pot my four collected field-grown trees. Watch to see just how much root growth ...

KEY Bonsai Tasks for Oct / Nov

by Xavier Martinez

24/01/2024

Find out today what Bonsai Tasks I will be doing in October and November (Autumn). I give you a detailed look at the tree species needing attention and a few pointers about other stuff we ...

Chinese Elm Bonsai

by Xavier Martinez

22/01/2024

In this fourth episode I look into the most popular of species for both Indoors and Outdoors Bonsai - the Chinese Elm (Ulmus Parvifolia). Also known as the 'lacebark elm', this species is native to ...

Top Tip 1 – Birds at my moss again!!

by Xavier Martinez

24/04/2017

First moan of the day...Never forget that our common garden birds just love all the worms that sneak into our bonsai soil. They treat it like a roadside cafe - as each morning (and evening) ...