Bonsai Wire

This week John hosts a question and answer session with questions that were submitted to us via talk@bonsaiwirepodcast.com.  Michael and Andrew join in with expert answers and a bit of banter.  We are requesting questions for an upcoming episode about watering, fertilizing and pH adjustment.  Send your questions to talk@bonsaiwirepodcast.com.

Michael Hagedorn's apprentice, John Eads, shares tidbits from his apprenticeship in a new bonus series.  This episode is all about watering, especially in the summer. We are soliciting questions for an upcoming round-table discussion on watering, pH and fertilizing. Please submit related questions to talk@bonsaiwirepodcast.com.

Jonas, John, Michael, and Andrew share how they got into bonsai, heckle one another with mispronounced names, state goals for the podcast, and offer an ad from our esteemed sponsor, ‘Patina Buster.’ 

 A roundtable debate among the four hosts about the nuanced decision making that goes into selecting trees for one’s backyard including the power of the single decision, the appropriate number of trees, and how choice of species affects both daily and yearly time commitment.

British bonsai icon Colin Lewis shares his move across the water with Jonas and Michael, including his dislike of demonstrations, how to toss your worst tree, the best way to nab a Japanese beetle, and a few really cool observations about bonsai, the community, and how things ‘are a changin’.