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From The Blog
What’s Happening on the Accent Plant Bench…
The accent bench always brings new things each month. Here’s a sampling of June’s offerings: Grass, hawkweed, and fern, 22″/ 56 cm. The balance of the three foliage types looks pretty good this year…last year was a different story. To some degree one can trim for balance. One plant should be the boss. The others […]
Jonas’s 2016 Post about Decandling Black Pines-
Now and then words deserve to be repeated. The Bonsai Tonight blog post by Jonas Dupuich about decandling Japanese Black Pine—of which this is the primary work season—is head and shoulders above nearly anything else you could read (or write) about the subject, in a concise, digestible form. Even if you’ve already read this, try it […]
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