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    Bonsai bonanza

    Nov 15, 2022 3 minutes

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    I COULD never say I’m a good grower of bonsai trees, but I just love growing them. I started dabbling about 15 years ago. I have only bought around three trees as bare roots from Heron Bonsai and just trained them the best I could. All the rest of my trees have been grown from seed.

    The photo shows a Christmas tree bought from Sainsburys, I think this cost around £6 but now it looks like it’s worth £100, the Chinese Juniper on the left was bought by my grandson Liam as

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