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Bare Root Tree Care

Home / Every Spring and Fall people will purchase bare root trees to plant and use either in their gardens or as bonsai. Bare root trees are cheaper to purchase usually because the shipping costs are cheaper since no soil is shipped with them. So the question has come up time and again on how

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Bonsai Tools

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

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Maintenance Pruning part three; Scissor Trimming and Finger Pruning

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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MAINTENANCE PRUNING part two: Pinching Out Deciduous Trees

Home / Pinching Out Developing Buds on Broad-Leaved Species to Aid Refinement To increase refinement on bonsai that have their basic trunk and branch structure established, a technique called ‘pinching out’ can be used. With this technique, new growth within the vigorous areas of the tree is either partially or completely removed before it extends.

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MAINTENANCE PRUNING Part One: The Need for Regular Pruning

Bonsai are ordinary tree species that require regular pruning to keep their diminutive shape. Without pruning, branches extend and the tree begins to lose its shape. Given enough uninterrupted growth, these branches can eventually thicken out of scale with the trunk and become coarse. Eventually, if left unpruned for long enough, a bonsai will simply

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