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Leptospermum For Bonsai

Posted By: Bonsai Admin
Date: April 23, 2025
Category: Beginners Guide, Bonsai, Helpful Hint, Others

Leptospermum is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae), mainly native to Australia and New Zealand. These plants, commonly known as tea trees or manuka, are small evergreen shrubs or trees, typically 2-5 metres tall. Leptospermum are […]

Working The Nebari by Andrew Edge

Posted By: Andrew Edge
Date: November 11, 2024
Category: Beginners Guide, Bonsai, General, Helpful Hint, Suggestions & Tips, Timely Tips

I’ve had this Ficus macrophylla (the Moreton Bay fig) for twenty years, inheriting it when I bought the property and nursery, Bibo Bonsai, in Peats Ridge. For many years it has been kept alive and just moved with me when […]

A Passionate Voice For Australian Natives

Posted By: Lee W
Date: July 9, 2024
Category: Beginners Guide, Bonsai, General, Timely Tips

Marcela Ferreira is a Melbournian passionate in her interest in Australian native trees as bonsai. Marcela has dedicated her bonsai interest in working with hundreds of natives from tube stock to yamadori and has achieved a reputation as an authority […]

Crafting Raft Bonsai: Top Techniques and Plant Choices

Posted By: Lee Wright
Date: May 23, 2024
Category: Beginners Guide, Bonsai, General, Helpful Hint, Others

In bonsai, a raft is one trunk along the ground supporting a number of ‘branches’ that have become trunks in their own right. Rafts come in straight and sinuous and are usually developed when a stock plant has branches on […]

Dead Wood Work

Posted By: Bonsai Admin
Date: April 8, 2024
Category: Beginners Guide, Bonsai, Helpful Hint, Others, Suggestions & Tips, Timely Tips

Water Gum (Tristaniopsis laurina) is a great choice for bonsai, particularly in the Sydney area where it is commonly used as a street tree and thrives with little or no attention. Shiny, attractive foliage with bronze tips in spring, easily […]

Growing Shohin Bonsai

Posted By: Bonsai Admin
Date: February 6, 2023
Category: Beginners Guide, Bonsai, Helpful Hint, Suggestions & Tips

Towards the end of 2022, BSA was fortunate to have Evan Marsh give a demonstration on growing Shohin bonsai. Evan is well known for his prize winning Shohin and has studied with Koji Hiramatsu who is an expert Shohin grower […]

POTS THAT WILL NEVER SEE A TREE by Lee Wright

Posted By: Bonsai Admin
Date: September 19, 2022
Category: Beginners Guide, Bonsai, Helpful Hint, Others, Suggestions & Tips

Don’t we all have pots like this or am I just weird? One of the downsides (?) of being a bonsai enthusiast is the tendency to collect pots for which you have no tree, not now, often never. This translates […]

Azaleas: Brenda Parker

Posted By: Bonsai Admin
Date: September 19, 2022
Category: Beginners Guide, Bonsai, Helpful Hint, Monthly Demonstration

The most commonly asked question that I get asked everywhere I go is how to grow azaleas. Here is a repeat (a revised edition) of the things that I do, with success, on how to grow and get these beautiful […]

Last Month Demonstrator: Brenda Parker

Posted By: Bonsai Admin
Date: September 19, 2022
Category: Beginners Guide, Bonsai, Helpful Hint

What a fantastic demonstration from Brenda Parker last month. An expert on azaleas, Brenda explained everything one needs to know, from history to care to surprising facts, about this beautiful flowering species. Did you know that all parts of the […]

Our Show

Posted By: Bonsai Admin
Date: August 1, 2022
Category: Beginners Guide, Bonsai, Events, Exhibitions / Shows, Others

Once again, our show will be held in the large Harvey Lowe Pavilion, so this is a reminder to get your trees ready for show. There is no show without trees, YOUR TREES! So please consider showing a tree or […]

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Leptospermum For Bonsai

Working The Nebari by Andrew Edge

A Passionate Voice For Australian Natives

Crafting Raft Bonsai: Top Techniques and Plant Choices

Dead Wood Work

Growing Shohin Bonsai

POTS THAT WILL NEVER SEE A TREE by Lee Wright

Azaleas: Brenda Parker

Last Month Demonstrator: Brenda Parker

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