The Broke Bonsai Bloke me my coffee & bonsai🇳🇿🌳✂️🌲☕️

Cypress trees stand in still water with clear reflections in dense fog.

This morning's fog

#photography #naturephotography #landscape

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Troops Are Cheaper Than Missiles Three reasons “boots on the ground” against Iran are inevitable.

"troops are cheaper than missiles. We have a massive stock of service members but a dwindling stock of munitions...And the Trump administration does not care about the lives of its men and women in uniform.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/troops-are...

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Afternoon view across sunlit countryside and blue sky

Bronze sculpture in front of me hedge. Lone cow visible on the hill in the background.

Evening view across fields and hills

Wedding yesterday at The Tree Church outside Martinborough. Really nice venue and the stunning outlook.

Wooden floor and a bougainville plant with 3 parts pink flowers on a wooden block

#Bonsai Bougainville in the making

Two little larch seedlings (~ 2 years old) in a pond basket, their main trunk wired to the side and a small branch wired as new top.

Several pots with very small trees, in the front is a cotoneaster. The soil/substrate is white, red and black (from the different mineral substrate types used).

In the foreground, there is a small pond basked with a hornbeam that is just opening the buds, In the background, a larger pond basket with another tree and a meadow.

A freshly repotted weeping willow with some sacrificial branches wired out with silver wire. The background shows a blurry image of our garden.

#bonsai repotting season has started for me here in #Austria: Some trees started opening their buds and showing some green, which means they are ready for repotting. Did most of the current repots to improve the #nebari, not becaus the trees were pot-bound...

A reminder that it's not too late to submit your objection to this bill
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That & also it eliminates the last bit of lawn we have on our section apart from the berm in front of the house...yay. everything else is covered in trees, garden, bonsai benches or decking..
Mower only used once every 6 to 8 weeks. Petrol, in the can is more used as reserve to get to the station 😁

Newly installed timber edging and leveled out garden soil with a maple tree front right and low bushy hebe to left of that. Behind is another low maple tree to left of that and growing above it a Pukā tree.

View from the right side. Newly installed timber edging and leveled out garden soil with a maple tree front left. Behind to the right is another low maple growing above it a Pukā tree.

10 yr old son expressed over a few months interest in having input on some garden design around the house so I got this area sorted with some edges an levels for him to do what he likes.

Seems keen on low growing ferns & tufts of flowering plants like small hebe, armeria which all sounds good 🇳🇿🌱

Large Ficus religiosa bonsai in development planted in a black plastic trough.

Large Ficus religiosa bonsai in development planted in a black plastic trough.

Ficus religiosa development bonsai is having a good season still noew growth pushing.

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Macrocarpa bonsai development forest planted in a black plastic trough with blue tie down webbing straps holding a length of timber down over the middle of the root base.

Macrocarpa bonsai development forest planted in a black plastic trough with blue tie down webbing straps holding a length of timber down over the middle of the root base.

Was loading the macrocarpa bonsai development forest into the car for a workshop tomorrow, and the sunset lighting was too good to miss.

The two front trees still have their ridiculously tall sacrifice leaders on. Will keep those on until spring.

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26th Trophy Bonsai Exhibition - Winners, Show & Behind the Scenes YouTube video by Bonsai Empire

Nice look at the recent Trophy 2026 Bonsai Show from
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@bonsaiempire.bsky.social

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Just envision that a Government came to power and cancelled a whole raft of essential programmes which would reduce the country's dependence on fossil fuels, only for there to be a once in a century oil crisis.

I feel like that amazing Pride Parade in Te Whanganui-a-Tara was a big Get F*%ed to this government. I saw @dashingdarbs.bsky.social looking dashing as in a kilt! and @queenoliviaiii.com (I think) and Ayesha Verrall bringing up the rear with on Dykes on Bikes. It was really niceZ

Rimu forest with ferns

Timeline cleanse

In today’s Weekend Herald

This thread is from the US, but the same message applies here (perhaps more so).

* Living wage for MsC & PhD scholars.
* Employment rights for them too.
* In 1st 100 Days of next Govt.

#NZPOL

Stop calling the Greens radical As opposed to the flatly ideological Coalition partners, they have demonstrated themselves as the most evidence-based and pragmatic party

🍃🌹🌿 NZGreens have demonstrated they are the most evidence-based & pragmatic NZ political party with fully-costed budgets, & fiscal strategies that are meticulously researched & proofed #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/weareund...?

Ep 62 - Chlöe Swarbrick - Co-Leader New Zealand Aotearoa Green Party 1/8/2025

🍃🌹🌿The wonderful Chlöe Swarbrick interviewed by the also wonderful Bryan Bruce -she would be a great Finance Minister & PM, with people, environment & Planet wellbeing put at the heart of the economy #nzpol #PartyVoteGreen #nzelection2026
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Horror poll for National and Luxon: which big beasts would be out of a job? Because nothing concentrates the mind quite like the sight of your career evaporating.

#NZGreens Budget
•Free GP & Dentist
•Free ECE educ=35hr/w
•Income guarantee=$395/w
•Good jobs,pay,housing, economy,environment,climate-action,etc
•91% pay LESS #tax
•CorpTax: 28%➡️33%=pre 1980s
•WealthTax=Australia’s
•Private-Jet tax
www.greens.org.nz/green_budget... thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-...

Not recognized by Bluesky had to jump out to Google. I recognized talofa as Samoan though.

Weather is nice here in Aotearoa some overcast clouds but pleasant early autumn temperature no wind or rain. Im at a café trimming my bonsai in their outdoor seating area.

Just tried the translate function and it works.

Hope to be more engaged with folks/follows posting in other languages now.

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People are daring to hope and it’s amazing! 😍

Māori granted customary rights under tougher coastline law

Landowners of a remote Foveaux Strait island re-win customary marine title to their surrounding waters after being sent back to court by a law change.

Stunning victory in Stroud last night.

Look at that majority! 💚😍

Huge congratulations to @helenelliott-boult.bsky.social and the entire team!

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Good morning everyone. #TreeOfTheDay no.1373 Misty start before the sun.

Black-headed honeyeater with yellow plumage

Another super-rarity, the hihi or stitchbird. These birds struggle to survive without substantial support in the form of food supplementation and nest boxes, probably because of habitat differences between the forests they once inhabited and the predator-free offshore islands where they now hang on.

Another extremely rare New Zealand passerine, the yellowhead.

Grey bird hanging from a fern leaf

And here's a whitehead again, hanging from a tree fern frond. This guy was so entertaining that I almost missed the one and only boat back to the mainland.