Fire Escape Bonsai

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Assurance of new growth

Bury your nebari

The “indestructible” plant I can’t keep alive

Mulchpilled and leafmaxxing

Illusions of color

Inosculation

Methods of concealment and exposure

Itty bitty bonsai committee

Communing with the Alley Pond Giant

Principles of resurrection

Becoming sleep

The bonsai sensorium

The flat top

Imagined futures

The way of watering

It’s good to start over

My indoor bonsai setup, 18 months in

The woods walk at night

Core exercises

My pet parasite

It’s good to win one

What gender is your bonsai?

Peregrinations of the pomegranate

Let's check in with my suburban bonsai

Sometimes you just have to do it

The stress test

Scions and daughters

The easiest beginner bonsai

New growth is fragile

Speed dating for bonsai

Cherry blossoms and magnolia considerations

Finding inspiration in the woods

How to make a bonsai from nursery stock

The epiphyte

My limbs grow long and heavy with limes

Further thoughts on sacrificial growth

Does bonsai hurt a tree?

A forest of firsts

Lessons from two years in bonsai

Missing: Pink camellia

A change of perspective

What to do with old potting soil

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