Rooting Technique
I came across this interesting rooting technique from Hansi Fleck (note in our climate in Zululand we would not need the heater – Hansi lives in Germany) Some people wanted me to give some more infos about my cloner setup. I have to admit this was a quick&dirty project. I took me about 10 minutes to [...]
European Bonsai Show 2013
- Image Source Bonsai Empire
- Image Source Bonsai Empire
- Image Source Bonsai Empire
The following photos are from Bonsai Empire and it is well worth a visit to their site for some excellent articles on growing, training and caring for bonsai.
Mr Miyagi comes to town
The Zululand Bonsai Society had another fantastic day at the NSRI on Saturday with well known bonsai expert Shaun Murphy. Congratulations to everyone involved for one of our best workshops to date. This was only achieved by the wonderful team effort from our members. Mr Miyagi Nicknamed Mr Miyagi, Shaun once again reminded us to not [...]
Root Over Rock
Our saturday meeting was a big hit with Celia doing a very informative talk on root over rock techniques. This was followed by a demonstration on the various projects she has on the go. The three methods discussed to develop root over rock were: bucket planting, where the tree is placed on a rock [...]
Fig Demonstration with Brian Morkel
Saturday was a perfect sunny spring day after almost a week of good soaking rains. We couldn’t have asked for better conditions for our planned follow up talk and demonstration with Brian on a fig he worked on at a previous meeting. It was a pleasure to listen to Brian, he discussed every decision in [...]
Farouk Workshop
It is always a pleasure to have Farouk visit us, and this full day session at the NSRI was no exception. Farouk discussed creative ways of finding new stock using aerial roots from natal figs, and creatively demonstrated how to fuse truncheons together to create a thicker trunk with interesting “instant” branches. The idea of [...]
