June The best time to prune Japanese maples is June. When the leaves have fallen from May until mid-July, is better than waiting until August, the standard root pruning time for greater metropolitan Sydney. My reason being – the stored […]

March With the varying weather patterns in Sydney lately, our bonsai plants are either ahead or delayed in their growing cycles. This is only of concern if still needing to do late summer repotting or similarly, to be in a […]

December – January The best time to defoliate the Ficus sp, in the Southern Hemisphere is from December to mid January. Although many figs are tropical, there are varieties for the sub tropics as well as the warm temperate.The night-time […]

 September  October  November September In Sydney our deciduous plants should have been root-pruned by now as their leaves usually sprout in August. This month’s subject continues with the non root-pruning effect. Bonsai in essence has long passed this once impractical […]

Our extensive collection of Timley Tips has been authored by our own renowned authority on Bonsai, Dorothy Koreshoff. Dorothy has written a number of books on the art of Bonsai. Some of the tips on this site are based on […]