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I started this plant from a cutting about 4-5 years ago and now it's time to re-pot. The tree is healthy. My primary concern is to preserve the upright half on the left in the image, this will be a good plant to keep working on. However, I thought it might be possible to split it in two (see...

This is a small boxwood, about 10 in tall. For the last 2 years it's been battling boxwood blight here in southern NY but this summer I felt it had turned a corner. I repotted and had been pruning off dead leaves and the new growth was slow but steady. It has 3-4 chips of BioGold on the soil...

Springs coming here in the northeastern US and I need to jump in and start pruning a Siberian Elm and a Boxwood. While searching for some basic rules I found this which seems concise (the three books I have seem to spread the info out all over), are they viable rules to start with?

Noob here. A friend got a small azalea from 1800FLOWERS as a gift, looks to be in a compost mix and doing ok but I'll be doing my first repot of any type on it and have read Kanuma is the way to go for long term Azalea bonsai. I have obtained some 5mm Kanuma, is it used alone or should I mix...

I have some cuttings I am trying to propagate, a ficus and a Fukien Tea. They get misted every day. They were fine under a grow light but then I brought them into a window environment and both exhibited leaves dying. First was the FT and then the ficus. They showed the leaves turning dark brown...

I killed my first tree. And it was my first, a lovely boxwood probably at least 30 years old that I received in return for some work I did at the home of a local Bonsai teacher. I got some interest and have been to several meeting of a local club. I live in southern NY, I kept it in an...

Hello, Beginner here, Kiku tools were recommended to me by members of my local club as having good starter tools. While shopping on the web I came across the Kikuwa brand, are they the same tools, just a shortened branding? thanks, Rob