Bonsai4me Visitors April 2008 saw a record-breaking 107,000 unique visitors and over 1/4 million hits at Bonsai4me.com. Many thanks to those that continue to visit and support Bonsai4me.com over the years!

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My sincere thanks go to those that have donated during January and February.

Video and Animations are now all listed on the Gallery Index page

Website Stats for 2007 Through 2007 Bonsai4me.com had just short of 2.5 million hits. Many thanks to all of those who have continued to support this website throughout the year and in particular, many thanks to those who have generously donated to help cover the costs involved in running it!

New YouTube Video I have uploaded a new video onto YouTube.com featuring a number of Hosta Accent Plantings

YouTube Videos I have uploaded a series of bonsai videos to YouTube; the majority of the subject matterl can already be seen within various areas of Bonsai4me.com however the video technology at YouTube allows the subject matter to be shown in greater detail than I can use with gif. files on this website.

Here is a list of the videos uploaded to date; Spiraea Autumn Colour, Dragon Bonsai Pot, Privet Bonsai 1, Privet Bonsai 2, Birch Bonsai. (Links open in new windows). If you enjoy the videos and would like to see more, please let me know by rating or commenting on them!

'Advanced' Index Page I have re-ordered the Advanced Index as the articles and photo-series were previously listed in the order that they were originally written and published; they have now been re-organised in a more cohesive manner. My apologies to anyone who was reading their way through the previous list order (as I know some of you do).

Bonsai4me Visitors May 2007 saw a record-breaking 93,000 unique visitors and just short of 1/4 million hits at Bonsai4me.com

Japanese Visitors I have noticed a slow increase in visitors from Japan in the past couple of years of which I am very proud. According to Alexa.com (providers of web statistics and analysis), during the last week in April, roughly 12% of visitors were from Japan, second only to the UK (16%).

Bonsai4me Visitors Visitors to Bonsai4me continue to grow on a monthly and year-on-year basis. March 2007 has seen over 82,000 unique visitors and just under 215,000 hits, showing a growth of over 25% compared to this time last year.

Bonsai4me Live Feed Introduced I have now introduced a live feed from Bonsai4me.com so that subscribers to the feed can be alerted when new articles or updates are published on the website.

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Ads on the website: Bonsai4me has always been and will always be a free website. However, there are many costs involved in maintaining a large website with the number of visitors that Bonsai4me has on a daily basis.

I have always resisted placing adverts all over the website, prinicipally because I dislike seeing huge quantities of ads on the websites that I like to visit!

Unfortunately, having spent nearly 5 years financing the website and its increasing bandwidth costs, the time has come that Bonsai4me has to start to pay for itself. For this reason you may have noticed that there are now small ads on most of the pages throughout the website. It is a concession that I have been forced to make, I hope the increased number of ads do not spoil your enjoyment of the site.

Comments I occasionally receive e-mails from visitors concerning the website's layout, navigation and content. These are extremely useful and help me push the website in the direction that visitors would like to see it develop. If you have any comments about any aspect of Bonsai4me, whether it be the type of pages you enjoy reading or find most useful, or simply to tell me that the navigation is hopeless, please e-mail at harry@bonsai4me.co.uk and tell me!

Please note that though I do my best, I cannot respond personally to each and every e-mail I receive but they are all greatly appreciated.

Submitting Material Have an article, a progression series or pictures of your trees that you would like to have published, seen and read by fellow enthusiasts? I'd be very interested to hear from you!

I am also interested to hear from enthusiasts who have any material, techniques or opinions to add to existing articles or species guides.