Originally posted on Rustedrootbonsai:
This is a black pine i got from kaizen bonsai.all the candles were cut off in late may and this is its second flush. Cork bark black pine Stages of early development for this black pine. When this pine came to me it had hardly any roots and struggled for the first year.luckly it survived and is starting to show me… Continue reading Future black pines

Originally posted on Hermanus Bird Club:
? The group of 14 birders who braved the rain to take part in the Club outing to Strandfontein on Thursday 1 September, were rewarded with a good sighting of the local rare bird – thus helping to break a Southern African twitching record. Rufous-tailed Scrub-robin at Zeekoevlei. Image by Charles Naudé. Mike Ford, leading the group, and helped by… Continue reading Brave birders help break twitching record