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Don't forget to stretch your poetic muscle and enter the Fall Haiku Contest! Three winners chosen at random from among all entries - and a chance to win great Wazakura tools! Here is the CONTEST THREAD

If you are like me, and really tired of Internet AI being shoved down your throat by search engines, a simple workaround is to type "-AI" at the end of your search phrase. Searching the term "bonsai" in Google creates a huge AI dump of information that you don't care about. "bonsai -AI" and...

Back on 9/8 I was trimming an Acer p "Ryusen" that I have on my back deck, and I set up one of the small bottle propagators in my office. I have to admit to being pessimistic about potential for results (given the lateness of the season), but imagine my surprise that here we are six weeks later...

This is the official thread for the 2025 Fall Haiku Contest! Contest Dates: Friday, October 17 - Friday October 31 end of day (local time wherever you are posting from) Rules: (1) Post a haiku. If you don't know how, check out this link. (2) You can enter more than once, but more entries...

I just got a couple of emails about this issue, and after researching it this is a known bug and it will be patched in the next software release. A possible workaround is to use the "insert image" button at the top of the editing window. Do not use the "attach files" button at the bottom of...

Get your pens / brushes out! We will be starting our Fall Haiku Contest on Friday, October 17th, and it will run through October 31. Our friends at Wazakura will be providing even more prizes this year, and plan to feature some of the entries on their web site! (Do not post entries to this...

Every now and then on this site I talk about Russian spammers. For fun, here's a good example. Should I (a) Approve (b) Spam clean (c) Reject with reason (d) Reject with extreme prejudice and block IP

I am posting this on the general discussion forum because it directly impacts the future direction of this site. As you may be aware, Google, and particularly Google's ham-handed attempt to steal the Internet, is causing huge upheaval among global content creators. Google adsense ads currently...

I wanted to share this topic with all the members, since I am trying to manage this as best as I can... As everyone knows, this site is paid for with Google ad revenues, and I try to keep the ads as low as possible. In the last six months ad revenues have collapsed. Site traffic is up, the...

Every now and then I do something with the site that scares me. Suffice it to say that Oracle (the company) is ending official support for MySQL 8.0, which was our database structure. Today I migrated our database from MySQL to MariaDB, and then had to update several versions to bring it...

Back when I lived in SoCal, a group of us would ride up to mountains every change of seasons and toast the setting sun... or in the case of the winter solstice, we would huddle for shelter while sipping on our beers. In the spirit of my friends everywhere celebrating the Fall equinox!

Thought I'd start a thread on my journey to try to locate a decent female American Persimmon. I went from assuming that we didn't have any on our property to eventually locating three females and quite a few males. Very hard to capture pictures because the females are large trees - which is...

New information continues to be posted about the 2025 Winter Show outside of Charlotte, NC this year. First, the general details: Date: December 6 & 7, 2025 Location: 150 Research Campus Drive, Kannapolis NC 28081 (same as previous years) After last year's record turn-out, we're looking...

I know many of you have purchased trees online from MrMaple.com. Today was their Labor Day Open House, and I was there to check out their trees, snap photos, and say "hi" to a few friends. Here are some pics: UTV's were available to drive people around the extensive grounds. I think there...

I wanted to share this info for all the princess persimmon lovers out there. All of my princess persimmons are experiencing a second flowering this year... including some that have never flowered before (including this spring) but have taken it upon themselves to flower now. Because I have so...

I thought I'd start a new thread on this tree, which I am excited about for the future... We live on a lake, and at some point someone chainsawed down this river birch (Betula nigra) which was growing on the shoreline. At some times during the year, when there was a lot of rainfall and the...

Share dog pics in celebration of our furry friends!! My boat dog, Ivy, enjoying herself this week...

Chalking this one up to "try it and find out". I was talking to a contractor on another project, and the conversation swung around to landscaping... and problems we have been having with deer - particularly low bushes like azaleas. The guy swore by a fertilizer called "Milorganite" which is...

In 50 years of keeping bonsai, I have never before tossed a tool in the trash because I considered it dangerous. These tools claim the award of being first! I purchased these as gardening pruning shears to be used like any other pruning shears - and sliced my hand open the first time I went to...

Looking for raw stock. Something 1 gallon+.

Anyone else having long spells of tropical nights? (any night that doesn't get 68 F / 20 C or lower?) We haven't had a single night that has cooled to our average low (or lower) since June 3. That's 35 straight nights... and counting... of above average nighttime temps :(

I have been seeing a lot of oblique references to this information in the Charlotte and Blue Ridge Bonsai Society groups, but I wanted to make sure that I publicize this to as broad an audience as possible. Bruce Appledoorn is closing his nursery and "retiring" from the retail trade, though he...

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/japanese-red-maple-bonsai-tree-10348

Anyone know a good source?

What insect pest causes this damage on red leaf Japanese maples? It only happened in a short window a couple of weeks ago... no damage before or since. Almost looked as if there was an insect hatch or swarm... and that whatever caused the damage is now gone.