Bonsai care, now that’s a big subject for such a small tree! OK, so I won’t make a ton of money telling jokes. The point is, caring for your bonsai is a big responsibility. If you have a few dozen trees it is a big job, a few hundred and it becomes a huge, daily chore.

Welcome to the Bonsai Care Weblog, the newest section in the ever growing, ever changing west coast bonsai website. As you can see we have a new site layout and lots of plans. I hope to get the new pages finished and loaded a few times each week. If you have any suggestions please feel free to post them on the Bonsai Artist forum.

Coming Bonsai Attractions

This weekend, July 4th, I had the pleasure of interviewing Bob Jardinico a Boston transplant to the SoCal area. When I caught up with Bob he was busy with a Shimpaku juniper re-styling which he was gracious enough to let me take a few pictures of. I will try to finish the article and get the pictures together this week.

I have also taken pictures of what I hope will be the start of a Shohin bonsai collection. What is Shohin bonsai? Shohin is the Japanese word for “a little thing” and we are talking very small. Here is a link to a shohin bonsai article by Morten Albek of the Shohin Bonsai Europe website that I think might explain it. I look forward to working with these tiny delights.

Anyway, please take a look around the west coast bonsai website and if I can be of assistance just drop me an e-mail. Keep your tools sharp and don’t forget to water twice tomorrow, it’s going to be over 100 degrees in Riverside.