Got a Black Pine today, Need help!

[Scott Roxburgh]

Check this out, I heard that the guy importing them is a great bloke!

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[Average_joe]

Check this out, I heard that the guy importing them is a great bloke!

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HAHA nice one

I DEFIANTLY want to purchase these... Will they have all the info i need?

The problem is i cant afford it yet, so my second question. Will you have them in stock for long or can they 'sell out'

[awkbabs]

Hey,

I would honestly recommend buying the book on Japanese Black Pines by Hoy Leong Kwong. He is the owner of the Bonsai South nursery in Caringbah, Sydney. Hoy is a specialist in JBP and Ficus. His nursery collection is breath-taking. I have never seen so many beautiful JBPs (and Ficus). The book itself is brilliant. I bought it a couple of weeks ago and read it from cover to cover in one night. It is so simple and easy to understand and best of all it explains how to train JBP for the Australian climate. The book also has pictorial workshops on how to train a nursery stock JBP and shape it into a brilliant bonsai in only a few years. I had a chat with him about JBPs when I bought the book. He said that the biggest problem in the bonsai world is that people see the JBP as being hard to grow and train and easy to kill. He said that is nonsense. Read his book and you will realise how simple it really is.

I was so happy with the purchase that I bought his book on Ficus. Another excellent guide.

Give him a call and I'm sure he'll post his book out to you. If anyone is in the area, I recommend the nursery.

[Average_joe]

Hey,

I would honestly recommend buying the book on Japanese Black Pines by Hoy Leong Kwong. He is the owner of the Bonsai South nursery in Caringbah, Sydney. Hoy is a specialist in JBP and Ficus. His nursery collection is breath-taking. I have never seen so many beautiful JBPs (and Ficus). The book itself is brilliant. I bought it a couple of weeks ago and read it from cover to cover in one night. It is so simple and easy to understand and best of all it explains how to train JBP for the Australian climate. The book also has pictorial workshops on how to train a nursery stock JBP and shape it into a brilliant bonsai in only a few years. I had a chat with him about JBPs when I bought the book. He said that the biggest problem in the bonsai world is that people see the JBP as being hard to grow and train and easy to kill. He said that is nonsense. Read his book and you will realise how simple it really is.

I was so happy with the purchase that I bought his book on Ficus. Another excellent guide.

Give him a call and I'm sure he'll post his book out to you. If anyone is in the area, I recommend the nursery.

Thanks for the advice Ill give him a call, or maybe go see him one day soon (im 2 hours north of Sydney)

[Scott Roxburgh]

I agree AJ, it is an excellent book, I bought it and am veey happy with my purchase.

The demonstration of some techniques (photos) are a bit hard to follow in the book, but with Boon's DVDs and this book you'll have a killer JBP in no time...well about 10 years!