Recent content by PaulH

People with YouTube channels spouting bad and downright incorrect bonsai technique yet the have thousands of worshipping followers.

My closest friends are fellow bonsai addicts. I love that we can enjoy sharing the excitement of new leaves an our maples or first buds popping on a yamadori. They are ready to help repot or lift trees too big for one person whenever asked. As many of us get older, bonsai gives us reasons to...

one of the two nastiest weeds in your bonsai, Irish mos and oxalis corniculata. kill them on sight!

Built another Dawn redwood forest for my friend Dylan with 21 of his field grown trees.

Helped my friend Scott make a large forest composition with his dawn redwoods.

Dug up and potted 13 yardadori boxwoods.

Repotted and worked on my friend's interior live oak and itoigawas on rock yesterday.

repotted my green Atlas Cedar in to a yamaaki pot. 61st repot this season and hopefully the last.

Nice. I got one from Dylan too. He grows great trees!

Welcome and special congratulations on joining a bonsai club. That should be your best source of information on bonsai suitable for your area as well as technique to create and maintain good trees. If your club offers workshops try to attend them all as well as any bonsai shows you can get to...

I seldom, if ever try to leave native soil on collected trees of any species with a couple of exceptions. Trees growing in pure pumice like the soil at Mammoth, CA can be planted directly in 100% native soil. Also trees growing in heavy, nutrient poor soil like those from California's pygmy...

Do not trim foliage on junipers! As the tree recovers it will self abort some foliage. In fact that's the first sign it might live. Keep it in semi shade, mist regularly but don't let the soil get too wet. The soil should be moist but not wet. I cover the soil with plastic. Good luck!

Thread grafted roots onto a trident to build nebari.

Defoliated and repotted my Portuguese oak.

Repotted several trees including upgrading my Nishiki black pine to this nice Yamaaki Kataoka signed pot.