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Originally Posted by lehket
I don't have too much trouble with it. The only thing I get impatient with, where bonsai is concerned, is winter.  |
I agree. I hate winter (sub-clinical SAD), but I get through it by obsessing over my younger trees once the leaves have gone.
I bring them in, one at a time and look at them on the turntable working out what to do next, which ones I need to repot, looking for any wire I might have missed when they were in leaf, which branches to remove for shape & taper/backbudding, marking them with chalk. I can do that for a couple of hours without cutting anything. After a week or so I'll bring in the same tree, check the chalk marks to see if I still agree with my first impressions, then I might do the cutting and sealing.
There's also pine to dewire/wire, tools to clean and sharpen, soils (akadama & kanuma) and fertilizers to order (yay for Kaizen) etc..
Yes, winter is a bad time (for me), but if I can get a bonsai fix (i.e. doing
anything bonsai related) every couple of weeks or so from November to February (happily, my katsura maples are really early, so I rarely have to wait later than February to see the first movement) it's not so bad.