This past week has been a very difficult time for me. I am depended entirely on the events industry and with the #corona virus infections escalation in South Africa most of my work/events up until the

I was glad to hear that the Japanday 2020 held at Oude Libertas open air theater on 14 May 2020 was not canceled due to the #corona virus outbreak. Although this is a very serious outbreak the treat level

Living a balanced lifestyle is harder than it looks. I know this as I am currently balancing work, family, running and bonsai. This does not seem like it can be a difficult thing to do but it's hard to

This week I was blessed with two figs on my bonsai tree. They have been on the tree now for some time and I have been waiting for them to be ready to eat. Today was that day! The figs were nice, firm and

Last week I posted a blog about a Ficus tree that I defoliated. To read more on that see the link below: This week I thought I would show how I trimmed a Ceder tree that I have been working on over the

Happy belated new years to all the #steemit guys and gals. Hope you had an eventfull festive season and that you could use this time to rest so that you are ready for 2020. In my last blog I mentioned

The last few weeks has been amazing. I was once again head of the committee that was responsible for all the arrangements for our club's annual show. Everything went according to plan and the event turned

Last week and Friday I decided to take the day off to work on trimming a few of my trees. This turned out to be one of the best decisions that I could have made. I ended up trimming back more than seven

Why choose a subject like consistency when talking about pruning you might think. I deliberately chose this topic as I find myself setting things off more and more now that I am running my own company.

This past weekend I made time to work on my trees. I trimmed a few trees and cleaned a few of the bonsai benches. As I was working on my trees I saw this Ceder that started to show signs of grow. I wanted

I feel like I'm getting things done today. #imonfire This is the second video that I have completed in the past couple of days. I posted a blog on this tree about 13 days ago. Here is the link if you want

BEYOND pissed would not have been applicable to describe just how I felt when I got home last week to find that our local troop of monkeys had once again raided the garden and as usual, had their eyes

I finally committed to work on this tree. It took me a full thirty three minutes to complete the pruning on this tree. I mentioned in a previous blog that I would be wiring some of the smaller branches

LIKE I explained in yesterday's post, time has been somewhat of a luxury for me these last few weeks leaving me with very little of the commodity to do with as I had pleased. (IMAGE FOR DISPLAY ONLY: Source,

THERE'S just something splendidly marvelous about the countless variety of Myrtle available - some range from trees to shrubs however, any and all of them can be used as bonsai. The trick though with Myrtle,

IT has been said that Japanese Cherry Blossom trees are sacred - often referred to in Japanese folklore as a tree inhabited by spirits, referred to as 'kami', these trees are rich with history and supposedly

DEADWOOD or more respectively known as Jin and Shari techniques, is the art of removing evergreen bonsai bark to create a truly characteristic look and feel, making any young tree (or old) look as though

ONE of the things I've been dying to try and do over the last few years is to grow a forest in a pot - a few Steemians reading this may be thinking: 'What the hell is he talking about'. This is what I

WITH the Winter solstice upon us this June 21, it would be wise to get those pomegranate seeds going right away, especially if you intend to have a fruit bearing tree within the coming years. No you do

THIS has got to be one of my greatest faults - I simply do not take 'before' photos and at times, I even forget to take 'after' photos however, at least 'after' can be taken care of later. Needless to