Keeping your bonsai watered while you are away from home has always been problem for enthusiasts. Pruning and general maintenance work can be left for a week or two without any detriment to your trees but watering has to be attended to on a daily basis. I have known many enthusiasts who have refused to go …
Although Bonsai are repeatedly pruned throughout their lives to keep their small stature; they are never deprived of nutrients to stop them growing.
Home / Typically, beginners bonsai are purchased from garden centres, shopping malls and chain stores. Almost all originate from China and Israel and are mass produced trees that have been cultivated on large bonsai ‘farms’ before being lifted and planted directly into a bonsai pot. The result is a tree that is relatively cheap to …
Home / Bonsai must be pruned throughout the growing season to keep them in shape. Some species such as Acers have a number of growth spurts through the year, after each which they require pruning back; other species such as Junipers require almost continual maintenance pruning. When growing bonsai, it is nearly always found that …
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Home / To the beginner at bonsai there would seem to be a bewildering number of tools available. However a large number of these tools are designed to aid the bonsai enthusiast who is carrying out more advanced techniques. For your first attempts at bonsai practise, where basic maintenance is essentially all that is being …
There are a wide range of techniques available to the bonsai enthusiast that can help keep his/her bonsai healthy, vigorous and in shape throughout the year.These techniques range from the straightforward but essential, such as pruning and repotting, to the more advanced such as wiring, trunk chopping or grafting.The key to using these techniques successfully …
Home / Most species of shrubs or trees commonly used for bonsai cultivation rarely succumb to disease if looked after carefully and given the correct environment to grow in. It is my experience that 95% or more trees that are affected by disease or bugs are also in poor general health. Under or over watering, under …
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Home / Informal Upright Acer palmatum/Japanese Maple bonsai by Harry Harrington in early Spring The basic Japanese tree forms have evolved over the years as a way of categorising bonsai and also helping to establish basic guidelines for styling trees. These form definitions are helpful to the beginner to help develop an eye for different …
Home / Deciduous and Broadleaf Bonsai cannot be repotted at any time of the year; for the majority of species, there is a small period of time during the Spring where the roots can be disturbed and pruned with reduced risk of danger to the tree’s health. Though there are tree species that can be …
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Home / Bonsai are pruned on a regular basis so they keep their diminutive size. Without pruning, their natural apically dominant growth habit will take over; the upper and outer branches and shoots will extend strongly at the expense of the inner and lower growth, that could eventually dieback. Without the restriction at the roots …
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