Old Tree Yard · Curated supply

The Old Tree Barn.

A carefully chosen collection of bonsai tools, soil components, fertilisers and workshop essentials: selected with patience, tested with purpose. Curated tools, soils, care essentials and handmade goods for trees worth keeping.

“Good bonsai care begins with the right tools, the right materials, and the patience to use them well.”

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土Soil Components

Roots first. Always.

Most bonsai problems begin below the surface. These three are the honest building blocks of nearly every mix we blend at the yard. Read them like a field guide, or lay them side by side.

Gauge: higher is more Tap a card for details
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線Wiring & styling

Shape is written in millimetres.

One wire, four gauges. Match the gauge to the branch (roughly a third of the branch’s thickness) and the tree does the rest over a season.

手Handmade by the yard

Hand-built pieces for displaying trees with dignity.

Built by Tyron in the farm workshop: local hardwoods, hand-cut joinery, oil-and-wax finishes that renew for decades. No two pieces identical, no piece rushed. Commissioned one at a time, sized to the tree it will carry.

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How we choose

Chosen through real care, not catalogues.

Nothing here is listed off a spec sheet. Every item has actually been through our hands and earned its place at the bench before it earns a place in the Barn. If a product needs a paragraph of persuasion to justify itself, it doesn’t belong here.

How an item earns its placeFour tests
  • TestedUsed on our own trees first
  • Reached forEarns repeat use at the bench
  • Priced honestlyThe range is shown, plainly
  • RefusedAnything we wouldn’t rebuy
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Request a sourced item

Can’t find it? We’ll go looking.

The Barn is young and the shelves are still filling. If you need something we don’t list (a specific tool, a pot size, an odd soil component), tell us what you’re after and we’ll track it down through suppliers we already trust.

  1. 01
    You askTell us the item, the size, a rough budget and your timing.
  2. 02
    We sourceWe check the suppliers we already buy from ourselves.
  3. 03
    You collectWe confirm the price, then it’s collection at the yard or local courier.

No newsletters, no list. Your request goes straight to the bench.

Sourcing request · 001To the bench

Your request goes straight to the bench; nothing is stored on this site. Prefer to write directly? hello@oldtreeyard.co.za

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Supplier transparency

Where things come from, said plainly.

Right now, most items are sourced on request: you ask, we order through suppliers we already use ourselves, and you collect at the yard or we courier locally. Soil mixes and handmade pieces come from the yard itself.

As supplier partnerships are confirmed, each product card will name its source right here. If a link ever earns the yard a commission, it will say so in plain words next to the link. No hidden margins, no mystery stock.

All prices are indicative ranges in South African rand, confirmed when you request an item.

Sourcing ledgerThe honest version
  • Stocked at the yardSoil mixes · handmade pieces
  • Sourced on requestTools · wire · components
  • SuppliersBeing finalised, named when confirmed
  • Affiliate linksDeclared, always
  • ReturnsTalk to us. We’re reasonable people.