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Issho-en: What does it mean?
Simply put, it means Together Garden. Honestly, we might not even be using it in the most accurate sense of the translation, but with some poetic license, we claim it all the same. The kanji itself plays into the very poetic sense of what bonsai means for us. The characters individually mean ‘one’ and ‘beginning’. […]
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Another US National Bonsai Exhibition Entry
As Vic eluded to earlier, I also had a tree accepted for display at the 3rd US National Bonsai Exhibition in Rochester, NY. During the last moments of deciding what to send with the tree and the flurry of things that needed to be done, I made some last minute changes. The original companion to be […]
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Yah… it’s time to take a temperature.
Blogging is a new thing for us, and it would mean a lot to us if you would take a second to let us know if we’re being useful to you as a reader, or if you wish we were doing something else. Of course there’s a lot of ground we haven’t covered… it’s still […]
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Telling a story
We have come to realize that it might be nice for us to have a place to call our own. A little corner of the internet so to speak. Where we can tell the story of our lives in bonsai. “Otaku” being a Japanese slang word for nerd or geek seemed appropriate as we both […]