The Bonsai Garden Podcast

Starting a Brazilian Pepper bonsai from scratch Click the play button to listen to this episode. In Florida the Brazilian Pepper Tree is an invasive species and is hated by all those Floridians who posses even a fundamental knowledge of gardening, landscaping or environmental conservation. State, County and City governments cut them down with vigilance […]

An interview with Bonsai Artist Cheryl Manning Click the play button to listen to this episode. Welcome to the bonsai garden podcast where the object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai but to make the bonsai look like a tree. BGP: My interview today is with Cheryl Manning a bonsai expert […]

Click the play button to listen to this episode. Welcome to the bonsai garden podcast, where the object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree. Michael Hylton is the vice president of the East Bay Society, which was originally founded in 1961. It […]

Part 29 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. If you’re considering entering one or more of your bonsai trees into a bonsai exhibit, show or other public display there are a few things you’ll need to do to get your tree ready for the show. Especially […]

Part 28 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. The bonsai pot is not just for holding the soil in which the bonsai grows. The pot’s appearance is very important to the overall impression your bonsai gives to the viewer who’s admiring it. We covered pot selection […]

Welcome to The Bonsai Garden Podcast where the object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai but to make the bonsai look like a tree. Click the play button to listen to this episode. John Callaway is a past president of the Greater Louisville Bonsai Society and a current member of the […]

Part 27 of a series by Eugene Howell click the play button to listen to this episode. We’ve begun to have cold weather this winter in Florida. The temperature for three successive nights got low enough to do serious damage to any tropical bonsai which may have been left outdoors and unprotected. The techniques typically […]

Part 26 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. In the previous article we began the discussion of bonsai dormancy. We covered the definition and the fact that not all species go dormant, and not even each plant within a particular species, goes dormant at the same […]

Part 25 of a series by Eugene Howell Click the play button to listen to this episode. You’ve heard that the best time to do major branch pruning and root work on deciduous trees is during the winter when the trees are dormant. But what does it mean that the bonsai is dormant? If you […]

An interview with Jack Douthitt Welcome to the bonsai garden podcast where the object is not to make the tree look like a bonsai, but to make the bonsai look like a tree. Click the play button to listen to this episode. *Jack Douthitt has been a bonsai enthusiast for over forty years. The former […]