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Using a Chopstick to Assess Bonsai Water content
When watering bonsai, the aim is to water in the Goldilocks zone – not too wet, not too dry. Compare watering bonsai it to baking a cake. Your goal shouldn’t be to take a cake out of the oven before its cooked because you’re worried about overcooking it. If you take a cake out of…
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Bonsai Watering – tips for beginners
Here is an information sheet for anyone looking for some advice on watering bonsai. Download PDF – Bonsai Watering Tips For Beginners – MBB 2020 Cheers Matt
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Season conversion – Northern to Southern hemisphere.
This is something small but when reading articles written in the northern hemisphere, I always find myself having to count forward or back six months to working out season. A lot of articles talk about the ‘which month’ to complete work on bonsai but they rarely write about the season at the same time. When…
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Fulgorid Plant Hopper
I was working on my bonsai when I spotted this little guy on a ficus. Couldn’t resist a few photos before moving it on to a safe place well away from any bonsai as I believe they are sap suckers. At first I thought it was a weevil because of the long nose but that…
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Bonsai Society of Sydney Exhibition 2019
This year’s BSS exhibition was held on Saturday 7th September in the Forest Community Arts Centre. It’s been a long time since I have been able to get to the BSS annual exhibition so it was nice to be back exhibiting and catching up with some old friends. Not a huge exhibition but there were…
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Earth & Fire Bonsai Potters Exhibition 2019
What an awesome event! This is the first time I’ve been able to see so many Australian bonsai potters in one place at the same time. I got to catch up with people I hadn’t seen in many years and meet people I have wanted to meet for a long time. Some new friendships were…
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