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This Web Site was established April 12, 1999 as  www.users.qwest.net/~rjbphx/ .

(At the magical arbitrary 10-year mark, we had reached 74,441 visitors.)

Changed early December 2000 to  www.phoenixbonsai.com/ .

Note:  Any page whose URL begins with "www.users.qwest.net/~rjbphx/" is seriously out-of-date.
Please look at that page via the "www.phoenixbonsai.com/" URL only.


Privacy and Content Statement    /    Credits    /    Site Kudos   /    Site Stats



This project is a labor of love, but there are a few monthly costs
involved in maintaining this.  We receive part
of our funding from the Phoenix Bonsai Society.
Would you care to donate something to Pyramid Dancer
Publications to show your appreciation of this educational site?
Thank-you.




WHAT'S NEW?

See Site Map for when assorted other pages have been updated on an ongoing basis.

Last major update of this page: January 1, 2010, Version 12.1.

Since the Version 11.1 dated January 1, 2009 we've added, among other things, :

* a When to Prune listing by Joan McCarter in Phoenix .pdf ;
* archival copies of many of our newsletters ;
* Other Archived Articles ;
* Earliest Western Reports of Various Kinds of Trees/Shrubs as Dwarfed Potted Trees ;
* a Chronology of Dwarf Potted Trees in France ;
* update to a Chronology of Dwarf Potted Trees in England ;
* Some of the Serious Conditions in Japan after World War II ;
* a translation of an early French report about Chinese dwarf potted trees ;
* several more French articles from the latter 1800s ;
* a biography of Toichi Tsumura ;
* several more prose and poem descriptions of dwarf potted trees In Other Words ; and
* An Ideal Bonsai History/Research Center Proposal .


What Was New?  Previous Version Additions




SOME HELPFUL LINKS

Lindsay Farr's WorldofBonsai Series 1 & 2
National Bonsai Foundation American Bonsai Society Bonsai Clubs International
International Bonsai Stone Lantern Publishing Co. World Bonsai Friendship Federation
Bonsai in Asia and Europe Spanish Language Bonsai Sites
European Bonsai Association
Bonsai Places in Europe
South African Bonsai Clubs
Australian Bonsai Clubs
Worldwide Bonsai Pot Signatures Pot Gallery: Dale , Rob , and Peter Crataegus Containers
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Would you like us to link with you (above)?  Is your site truly unique, does it have more useful information than most other sites,
is it really more helpful than any of the above sites?  Those are our criteria for adding new links.
If still interested, please contact rjb@phoenixbonsai.com.
If your site has historic value and might be a worthy addition to our Bonsai Book of Days project,
contact us.  Thank you.



If you have any comments or suggestions on the information or presentation at this site
(including how to make the site easier to use and get around on), have discovered any broken or bad links,
are interested in making a non-English mirror site,
or want to find out more about any of this, please e-mail us at  rjb@phoenixbonsai.com .

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