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Living the dream
I am sure that at some point during a work day our minds have wandered to the trees in our gardens and dreamt that we could leave the mundane job...
8 June 2023
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Photograph everything
Tony Tickle explains why it's important to keep an organised photographic record of your trees.
27 January 2023
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Do you have too many trees?
I have visited the gardens of numerous bonsai enthusiasts and what surprises me most is that frequently they have far too many trees to maintain.
12 May 2022
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Bonsai Legacy
The concept of leaving a legacy is the need or the desire to be remembered for what we have contributed…...
14 April 2022
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Why judge a bonsai exhibition?
Tony Tickle questions how bonsai shows are judged and why many enthusiasts choose not to show their trees in public.
7 January 2022
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Zeitgeist of bonsai
Tony discusses who or what is driving the bonsai zeitgeist in the West. Who or what is making a real…...
29 October 2021
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Raising the potters’ bar beyond Japan
By Tony Tickle I’m sure that I am not alone in having shelves of beautiful pots created by some of…...
26 April 2021
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How far can we go?
It is fairly safe to say that bonsai in the West has reached a very high level because major exhibitions…...
19 April 2021
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Like or Wow!
The Internet is not always good for bonsai By Tony Tickle with the assistance of Banquo I have a friend…...
9 April 2021
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My favourite tree
By Tony Tickle with assistance from Banquo. ‘Which is your favourite bonsai?’ is a question I am often asked when…...
5 October 2020
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The final one
This exercise ends here: When I was invited to have a regular column, I had guessed I would have lasted…...
18 March 2020
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Trees talk to me
As Clint Eastwood once famously sang in ‘Paint Your Wagon’, ‘I talk to the trees’, I find that trees talk…...
20 January 2020
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Bonsai addicts because therapy did not work
This was the slogan I saw on the back of a shirt when I was in South Africa. It turns…...
19 August 2019
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I dreamed a dream
My 28-year-old niece recently viewed my bonsai collection and I was fascinated by her reactions to the trees. She is…...
6 January 2019
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Abstract bonsai, possible?
Contemporary Western art requires that focus be given not only to the aesthetic but also the intellectual contemplation of a…...
22 November 2018
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The end, or a new beginning?
I don’t know if it’s a generation issue, or simply that the first wave of serious bonsai enthusiasts in Europe…...
11 November 2018
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It pays to show
The letter has arrived. Anxiously you pick it up. The postmark tells you all you need to know about where…...
1 September 2018
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Women and Bonsai
Over the last few years the discussion as to why there are ‘so few women in bonsai’ has spasmodically raised…...
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1 July 2018
