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Apr 12th, 2015
Starting a Brazilian Pepper bonsai from scratch Click the play button to listen to this episode. In Florida the Brazilian Pepper Tree is an invasive species and is hated by all those Floridians who posses even a fundamental knowledge of gardening, landscaping or environmental conservation. State, County and City govern...
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May 29th, 2014
An interview with Bonsai Artist Cheryl Manning Click the play button to listen to this episode. Welcome to the bonsai garden podcast where the object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai but to make the bonsai look like a tree. BGP: My interview today is with Cheryl Manning a bonsai expert […]
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Mar 7th, 2014
Click the play button to listen to this episode. Welcome to the bonsai garden podcast, where the object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree. Michael Hylton is the vice president of the East Bay Society, which was originally founded in 1961. It […]
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Mar 1st, 2014
Part 29 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. If you’re considering entering one or more of your bonsai trees into a bonsai exhibit, show or other public display there are a few things you’ll need to do to get your tree ready for the show. Especially […]
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Feb 28th, 2014
Part 28 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. The bonsai pot is not just for holding the soil in which the bonsai grows. The pot’s appearance is very important to the overall impression your bonsai gives to the viewer who’s admiring it. We covered pot selection […]
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Feb 20th, 2014
Welcome to The Bonsai Garden Podcast where the object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai but to make the bonsai look like a tree. Click the play button to listen to this episode. John Callaway is a past president of the Greater Louisville Bonsai Society and a current member of the […]
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Feb 19th, 2014
Part 27 of a series by Eugene Howell click the play button to listen to this episode. We’ve begun to have cold weather this winter in Florida. The temperature for three successive nights got low enough to do serious damage to any tropical bonsai which may have been left outdoors and unprotected. The techniques typicall...
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Dec 27th, 2013
Part 26 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. In the previous article we began the discussion of bonsai dormancy. We covered the definition and the fact that not all species go dormant, and not even each plant within a particular species, goes dormant at the same […]
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Dec 26th, 2013
Part 25 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. You’ve heard that the best time to do major branch pruning and root work on deciduous trees is during the winter when the trees are dormant. But what does it mean that the bonsai is dormant? If you […]
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Dec 17th, 2013
An interview with Jack Douthitt Welcome to the bonsai garden podcast where the object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree. Click the play button to listen to this episode. *Jack Douthitt has been a bonsai enthusiast for over forty years. The former […]
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Dec 5th, 2013
Part 24 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. In the previous post we learned the importance of the health of a bonsai’s root system and how the root hairs function. We also learned why water will move into a root hair and what can cause that […]
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Dec 4th, 2013
Part 23 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. Bonsai hobbyists spend a majority of their “bonsai time” looking at and working with, the trunk, branches and leaves of their trees, but keep in mind that one third of the bonsai tree isn’t visible and yet needs […]
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Dec 2nd, 2013
Part 22 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. This is a continuation of an article on bonsai leaf reduction by defoliating. In the previous article we learned that if a bonsai loses all its leaves during the growing season, it will replace them with new ones, […]
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Nov 22nd, 2013
Part 21 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. Every once in a while I’ll see a bonsai on display that’s really outstanding. I’ll stop and take a good long look at it trying to figure out what makes it so attractive. In addition to the perfect […]
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Nov 21st, 2013
Part 20 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. Tools are critically important to bonsai. The art of bonsai itself has specialized tools made and used only for creating beautiful bonsai trees. However, during a local bonsai club meeting this year, the guest artist, who was giving [...
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Nov 20th, 2013
Part 19 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. Bonsai root pruning is the one task, above all others, that can cause the death of your tree very quickly. However, avoiding the task may also readily kill your bonsai. Let’s discuss how to properly prune the roots […]
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Nov 19th, 2013
Part 18 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. Considering how little soil a bonsai tree lives in, fertilizing bonsai trees is especially important. But which fertilizer should you buy for your bonsai? When you look at a bag of fertilizer you’ll see a set of three […]
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Nov 16th, 2013
Part 17 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. Bonsai wiring is what gives the bonsai artist nearly total control over the shape and design of his or her bonsai tree. By using wire, we can implement a curve into a branch where there hadn’t been one […]
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Nov 15th, 2013
Part 16 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. One of the techniques that a beginner in bonsai learns early is that frequent pinching of growing tips is essential to the development of good ramification. The general rule is that when there are five to seven leaves […]
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Nov 15th, 2013
Part 15 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. In the previous post we began the discussion of how to start a bonsai by first identifying where the front of your new bonsai will be. The front of a bonsai tree is defined as the side of […]
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Nov 11th, 2013
Part 14 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. You’re a newcomer to bonsai, you’ve joined a club and attend meetings, you’ve looked through bonsai books and magazines, you’ve even attended bonsai demonstrations and yet despite all of this, when you look at your tree you don’t […]
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Nov 9th, 2013
Part 13 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. bonsai pots come in so many shapes and sizes that it can sometimes be difficult to decide which pot to put your tree in. This is particularly true for people who are new to the art of bonsai. […]
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Nov 7th, 2013
Part 12 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. Trees live a long time and many of us don’t have 30 or 40 years to wait for a seedling to grow into an impressive bonsai. For those who do, they may not have the patience to wait […]
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Nov 5th, 2013
Part 11 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. One of the techniques that beginning bonsai artists find hard to understand is how to develop leaf pads. Questions concerning this come up more than any other when we work with newcomers to the hobby. So let’s take […]
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Nov 4th, 2013
Part 10 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. To be a good bonsai artist you must first understand how a tree will respond to what you’re doing. This means you must understand the basic parts and functions of a tree. Superficially this may seem to be […]
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