River Branch Bonsai

04/03/2024

Blown away with my new custom-made Fredric Bonsai stand. It's beautiful! I'm going to need to make more mini shohin trees to suit it, like this lovely little windswept native by Serena Dawson.

01/03/2024

Seeing 50 year old bonsai trees like this mugo makes me realise how special the trees are that I'm starting for myself now. Life long companions!

Currently for sale on our website. Prices are indicative only, message me for offers. We can also ship most trees NZ wide.

https://riverbranchbonsai.com/collections/trees

17/02/2024

Bit of a bonsai sale fail. Mugo pines are my weakness, and this 50 year old tree is just my kind of weird, so it's staying with me. Which means I now need to sell some trees. 😅 I'll be putting up new trees for sale in the next week, both older trees, young bonsai and pre bonsai.

12/02/2024

Love a good beech day ☀️ Scratched out the soft wood from old borer holes in the younger silver beech, and I moved old Gnarly into more sub to help uv bleach the deadwood. I'm not a big fan of electric tools for bonsai carving, Mother Nature is better at it than me any day.

01/12/2023

Prepping these two for sale on behalf. 💕 Great history, dug out of the growing fields of Fern Valley Bonsai Nursery, then 20+ years of in pot training by a senior member of the Blenheim Bonsai Club. It shows! The leaves on the trident are tiny. Full clear photos coming soon.

11/02/2023

Out at the in-grown nursery today, and so pleased to see my favourites, the NZ mountain beech are settling in well and handling the full sun position like champs. A few fried edges, but no die back anywhere. Looking forward to seeing them grow over the next few years.

09/02/2023

Summer time is pine time! A quick repot for one of my personal collection trees. This pine has only been in training for 18 months, and currently isn't wired. The new pot is NZ made by Light 'n Earth Art.

05/02/2023

Adding a few small supplied bonsai to the shop this long weekend. ☘️ This sweet little cherry comes in a unique NZ made bonsai pot.

https://riverbranchbonsai.com/collections/trees

22/01/2023

It's a Douglas Fir kind of day. Keeping these guys happy means a lot of water, and plenty of hair cuts. If you're interested in early bonsai material in this species, get in touch.

18/01/2023

One of my favourite things to do with bonsai is to sit down with a cup of water and an old tooth brush, and give them a bit of a bath. Watering daily can leave a build up on the tree's surface and removing it once in a while can prevent it from reaching the foliage. The gentle brushing also helps stimulate buds for some species.

08/01/2023

We're starting to add some supplied pre-bonsai stock in to the store. These trees have all had multiple years of root work done on them as well as foliage reduction, and they're ready for the next step.

River Branch Bonsai is a bonsai nursery based North Canterbury, New Zealand, offering bonsai, pre-bonsai, yamadori and raw plant material for bonsai.