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Fronts are personal decisions.
Fronts can also be a reminder of how dumb you were last year. Which relates to the previous statement.

For the last two years I’ve been working with a species that’s new to me – the jabuticaba (Plinia cauliflora). It’s a fruit tree native to Brazil that produces sweet fruit in summer.

Spring has sprung very early this season so there is a lot to do fast regarding repotting if not done already. As usual the last Thursday of the month is Live Q&A time.

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Here are a few photos from this spring’s repotting in Seasonal Workshops. Each has a note about what we were doing. 

If you ask me what my favorite time of year in the garden is, I’ll say early spring, right after repotting. It’s the one time of year when everything looks good and there’s little work to do.

This January we had Daisaku Nomoto with Jonas Dupuich and Andrew Robson in Portland, Oregon for the Shohin School. I’ve enjoyed watching this event take shape the last two years, matched by the enthusiasm of its 50+ students.

As I go into repotting season, I think about how my plants grew the previous year and whether I want to change the soil mix I use for the upcoming growing season.

January’s trip to Spain held many jewels. Visiting the UBE convention and show. Seeing David Benevente’s bonsai garden. Meeting Bjorn Bjorholm, after all this time for the first time (and a good lunch, that). Visiting (and another lunch) with long-time collaborator Oscar Jonker.