The Hottest Day

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benjamina, Bonsai, defoliate, ficus, pot, pots, prune, pruning, repot, styling, wiring

Have you heard the suggestion to “repot your ficus on the hottest day of the year”? Well, it was cooler today than the last few (only the low 90s F), but it was so brutally hot AND HUMID the last few days, I was not about to work in the garden.

Choosing a Bonsai Pot

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Bonsai, boxwood, buxus, choose, color, pot, pots, repot, size

More decisions!

This little boxwood is due to be repotted and I’d like to choose a pot more suited to the design. The tree will be planted at a new angle. The current pot is propped up in the image below to approximate this. Also shown are a range of pots that might be about the right size.

Glazed pots

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Bonsai, ceramic, color, glaze, pots, pottery

I love taking glaze ware out of the kiln!

Fresh from the Kiln

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Bonsai, ceramic, handmade, kiln, pots

I fired up the kiln yesterday. 

Removing glaze ware from the kiln is always exciting, and I like the results I got on some new pots for the Bonsai garden. 

Three sizes of Bonsai pots from the four inch rose colored pot to the nine inch hexagon. 

And three small accent dishes in the three inch size category. I look forward to using all of them!

Oh… and how do you like my stamp? Do you see what I did there?